Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (), sometimes spelled de l'Isle or de Lile (10 May 1760 – 26 June 1836), was a French army officer of the French Revolutionary Wars. He is known for writing the words and music of the "Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin" in 1792, which would later be known as "La Marseillaise" and become the French national anthem. Rouget de Lisle was born at Lons-le-Saunier, reputedly on a market day. His parents lived in the neighbouring village of Montaigu. A plaque was placed at the precise spot of his
Gerard de Lisle, 1st Baron Lisle summoned to a Council 20 June 1358. He married twice: In 1351 Philip Warde, formerly bailiff of Gerard de Lisle in the manor of Walberton, Sussex, owed him a debt of £10 7s. Gerard de Lisle, 1st Baron Lisle Gerard II de Lisle, 1st Baron Lisle (1304 – 9 June 1360) of Kingston Lisle, (Latinised to "de Insula" ("from the Island"), French "de L'Isle") was an English nobleman and soldier during King Edward III's campaigns in Scotland and France. He was born "circa" 1304, the son and heir of Sir Warin de Lisle, of Kingston Lisle in the parish of