Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle has immortalized him, "La Marseillaise", was composed at Strasbourg, where Rouget de Lisle was garrisoned in April 1792. France had just declared war on Austria, and the mayor of Strasbourg, baron Philippe-Frédéric de Dietrich, held a dinner for the officers of the garrison, at which he lamented that France had no national anthem. Rouget de Lisle returned to his quarters and wrote the words in a fit of patriotic excitement. The piece was at first called "Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin" ("War Song for the Army of the Rhine") and only received its name of "Marseillaise" from its
John de Lisle, 2nd Baron Lisle (second creation) 1356 his widow was assigned her dower at Harewood. She was still living on 3 January 1377. The east window of Harewood church had an image of John de Lisle until its restoration in 1793. He married, before 16 December 1332, Maud de Grey, daughter of Henry de Grey, 3rd Baron Grey of Wilton (d. 10 or 16 December 1342), by whom he had three sons, and possibly a daughter, Alice: John de Lisle, 2nd Baron Lisle (second creation) John de Lisle, 2nd Baron Lisle of Rougemont, KG (c. 1318 – 14 October 1355) was an English peer and soldier