He was placed with his men to the service of former King of Poland, Stanislas Leszczynski, then Duke of Lorraine and father in law of Louis XV, who granted him the title of Master of the Royal Hunt.
Martha was the third child of her mother, her second marriage to Guy de Montfort had produced two half-sisters, Alice, who would go onto succeed their mother and a second Petronilla who was married to Raoul de la Roche-Tesson.