How did michel de montaigne die

​MONTAIGNE, MICHEL DE (1533–1592), French essayist, was born, as he himself tells us, between eleven o’clock and noon on the 28th of February 1533. The patronymic of the Montaigne family, who derived their title from the château at which the essayist was born and which had been bought by his grandfather, was Eyquem. It was believed to be of English origin, and the long tenure of Gascony and Guienne by the English certainly provided abundant opportunity for the introduction of English colonists. But the elaborate researches of M. Malvézin (Michelde Montaigne, son origine et sa famille, 1875) proved the existence of a family of Eyquems or Ayquems before the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine to Henry II. of England, though no connexion between this family, who were sieurs de Lesparre, and the essayist’s ancestors can be made out. Montaigne is not far from Bordeaux, with which the Eyquem family had for some time been Michel de montaigne biography.