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Robert de La Vieuville, marquis de Sy (–1612) was a French governor and military commander in Champagne and the Rethélois during the French Wars of Religion. The son of Pierre de La Vieuville, the marquis followed his father into the service of the new duc de Nevers (duke of Nevers), receiving the office of governor of the key border city of Mézières in 1569. Over the following decades he would be a consistent client of the Nevers family, while also acting as a firm royalist in Champagne. To this end he became a gentilhomme de la chambre for the king of Navarre in 1573. The following year, Nevers saw him established as lieutenant-general of the Rethélois, of which Nevers was duc. He acquired lands from his patron by acting as their creditor, most notably in 1576. In 1577 he was granted a compagnie d'ordonnance (ordinance company) and he was later to be inducted as a conseiller d'État (councillor of state) in 1580. Over his career he would become a chevalier (knight) of both the most senior orders of French chivalry, Saint Michel in 1580 and Saint-Esprit in 1599.