| Jean Armand de Maillé | |
| 2nd Marquis of Brézé | |
| Full Name: | Jean Armand de Maillé |
| Spouse: | never married |
| Issue: | no issue |
| Father: | Urbain de Maillé, Marquis of Brézé |
| Mother: | Nicole du Plessis |
| Birth Date: | 1619 10, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Milly le Meugon, France |
| Death Place: | Battle of Orbetello |
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Jean Armand de Maillé, 2nd Marquis of Brézé, Duke of Fronsac (18 October 1619 – 16 June 1646) was a French admiral.
Jean was born in Milly-le-Meugon, in one of the most powerful French families of the time; his father was Urbain de Maillé, Marquis of Brézé, Marshal of France, and Nicole du Plessis. His uncle was Cardinal Richelieu, King Louis XIII's renowned minister, and his brother-in-law, Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, (better known as the le Grand Condé), was the First Prince of the Blood.
Thanks to his uncle, at the age of seventeen, Jean received the title of grand-maître de la navigation (Grand-master of Navigation), a new title created by King Louis XIII for Cardinal Richelieu and equivalent to Grand Admiral of France.
One of the leading figures in the Eighty Years' War, Jean won a victory at the battle of Cadiz near Cadiz (20 July 1640), and then seized Villafranca. In 1641, he arrived in Portugal to help in the Portuguese Restoration War against Spain. In 1642, Jean fought at the Battle of Barcelona against the Spanish forces near Barcelona, and Battle of Cartagena on 3 July 1643. He was killed on 16 June 1646, during the Battle of Orbetello.
His remains were buried in the church of Milly le Meugon, abutted to the castle walls.
Three ships were named in his honour: see French ship Maillé Brézé