Antoinette de Turenne
Antoinette de Turenne (* 1380 - 14 July 1416 in Alès ), Vice Countess of Turenne , was the daughter of Raimond VIII. De Turenne and Marie d'Auvergne, Comtesse de Boulogne . She was the great niece of Pope Gregory XI. , Cousin of Alix des Baux and Jeanne II d'Auvergne , and wife of Jean II. Le Maingre , known as Boucicaut, Marshal of France .
Life
Antoinette spent her childhood in Meyrargues with her grandmother Aliénor de Comminges . At the beginning of 1393, Pope Clement VII , Marie de Blois , Countess of Provence, and her grandfather Guillaume III planned. Roger de Beaufort to marry her off. Charles du Maine was proposed as husband, the countess's younger son, but Raimond de Turenne refused: he was not the man who would kneel before his son-in-law. King Charles VI. and the French court interfered and proposed in turn Jean II Le Meingre, called Boucicaut, who in 1391 had become Marshal of France.
This proposal was approved by Raimond de Turenne, and the wedding was celebrated on the eve of Christmas 1393 in the castle chapel in Les Baux-de-Provence . Antoinette was 13 years old, her husband 27. The marshal received the dowry of the county of Alès , the barony of Anduze , and the fiefs of Portes-Bertrand and Saint-Étienne-Vallée-Française . Regarding himself, Boucicaut confirmed that he was ready to support his father-in-law's dispute with Odon de Villars and Alix des Baux (the Viscount's niece) and even cede his Boulban castle to him on April 1, 1394. Which he never did.
On the contrary: On November 15, 1394, Boucicaut received the gift of the County of Beaufort from Guillaume III to Queen Maria. let accept. Then in 1399 the Marshal was charged with restoring the lordship of the Counts to Les Baux and Roquemartine . To this end, he managed to send the Viscoomte's mercenaries to Constantinople .
The marriage of convenience itself, however, was a success. Boucicaut loved Antoinette. Undoubtedly, the pious life that the couple led contributed a lot to this. The marshal lived at Alès Castle, later, when Boucicaut became governor of Genoa in 1403, she followed him to Liguria , where she resided for nine years. Legend has it that this stern warrior, a professor of piety but a very brave man, wrote lais and sonnets for them , which are poured out today, which are now regarded as apocryphal . What is certain is that since his return from the battle of Nicopolis he created the order of the "white lady with the green shield" in honor of his wife.
Their only child, the son Jean, died young, shortly before 1413, and was buried in Saint-Nicolas in Pertuis .
In 1413, after the death of her father, Antoinette became Vicomtesse de Turenne. On March 12th, Boucicaut and Antoinette met at Castelnau-Bretenoux Castle in the vicestoy of Turenne. On April 4, 1413 Boucicaut called himself Vicomte de Turenne. On June 3rd, the consuls of Brive gave the lawyer Pierre Régis and the notary Pierre Raynal le Jeune power of attorney to "resolve the differences with the mighty Mr Boucicaut, Marshal of France, and Dame Antoinette, Viscountess de Turenne."
In October 1415, Boucicaut was captured after the Battle of Azincourt . Antoinette died on July 14, 1416 in Alès Castle. Boucicaut died in England five years later. The couple is buried in the Saint-Martin de Tours basilica .
literature
- Joseph Denais, Le Testament d'Antoinette de Turenne, Comtesse de Beaufort, femme du Maréchal Boucicaut, 1413 , Revue historique de l'Ouest, 1889.
- PR Vernet, Antoinette de Turenne, vicomtesse de 1412 à 1421 et Jean le Meingre-Boucicaut, vicomte usufruitier , Bulletin de la Société scientifique, historique et archéologique de la Corrèze, Vol. 97 and 98, 1975-1976.
Remarks
- ↑ a b c d e Antoinette de Turenne et Boucicaut
- ↑ a b c René François Rohrbacher, Auguste-Henri Dufour, Histoire universelle de l'Église Catholique, Volume 21, Gaume Frères 1858
- ↑ Les Riches Heures du Maréchal Boucicaut
- ↑ Denis Lalande, Jean II le Meingre, dit Boucicaut: 1366-1421
- ↑ La vicomté de Turenne au XIVe siècle , in: Bulletin de la Société scientifique, historique et archéologique de la Corrèze , Vol. 87-89, 1965, p. 127
- ↑ "pour accorder les différents avec puissant seigneur Boucicaut, mare scarf de France, et lady Antoinette, vicomtesse de Turenne," Henri Delsol, Le consulat de Brive-la-Gaillarde: essai sur l'histoire politique et administrative de la ville avant 1789 , Imprimerie catholique, 1936, p. 170
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Antoinette de Turenne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French nobleman, Viscountess de Turenne |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1380 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 14, 1416 |
| Place of death | Alès |