Frederick Hermann Schomberg, duke of, an English soldier of German origin, born in Heidelberg about 1616, fell in battle, July 1 (N. S. 12), 1690. He was a son of the German count Johann Meinhardt von Schomberg, and his mother was an English lady, a daughter of Sir Edward Sutton, Lord Dudley. In early life he served in the armies of the Netherlands and other countries, and in 1650 entered that of France. As commander in Portugal he compelled Spain in 1668 to recognize the Portuguese dynasty of Bragança. In 1675 Louis XIV. made him marshal for his services in Catalonia, and in the following two years he forced the enemies of France to raise the siege of Maestricht and Charleroi. He left the French army on the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685, and sought employment from other governments. The prince of Orange, under whom he had formerly served, appointed him as his second in command on his departure for England in 1688, and in 1689 created him duke of Schomberg in the English peerage, and made him master of the ordnance, while parliament granted him £100,-000. He was sent to Ireland, and in 1690 took a heroic part in the battle of the Boyne, in which he lost his life. - His second son Meinhardt became duke of Leinster, and succeeded his brother Charles as third duke of Schomberg. He died without male issue in 1719, when all the titles became extinct.