Brézé (noble family)

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Brézé was a family of French nobility, which takes its name from the town of Brézé in the Maine-et-Loire department .

history

The rise of the family to national importance began with Pierre de Brézé , whose origin is unclear, and who was chamberlain to King Charles VII from 1444–1448 under the influence of Agnès Sorel . Pierre's son Jacques de Brézé married Agnès daughter Charlotte de Valois, whom he surprised during adultery in 1477 and then killed with the sword. The son of Jacques and Charlotte in turn was Louis de Brézé , the husband of Diane de Poitiers , who after his death became the lover of King Henry II . With the daughters of Louis and Diane, Françoise and Louise de Brézé, whose husbands later became dukes, the family died out in 1577.

The family owned the castles Anet and Brissac and the Hôtel Barbette in Paris, but not the Brézé castle . Like the Brézé rulership, this castle belonged to the Maillé house , which the Brézé village had acquired since the 14th century, but is not related to the Brézé house. Even the title of Marquis de Brézé , conferred in the 17th century, is not associated with the House of Brézé.

Tribe list

  1. Pierre de Brézé , X July 16, 1465 at the Battle of Montlhéry ; ⚭ Jeanne du Bec-Crespin, heir to Guillaume IX, Seigneur de Mauny et Le Bec-Crespin
    1. Jacques de Brézé , † August 14, 1494 in Nogent-le-Roi , Grand Seneschal of Normandy (1465–1476 and 1483–1490), Count of Maulévrier , Vice-Count of Le Bec-Crespin and Marny , Lord of Anet ; ⚭ March 1, 1462 Charlotte de Valois Bâtarde de France, * probably 1434, † murdered 15./16. June 1477 in Rouvres , buried in the Abbey of Notre-Dame in Coulombs , daughter of King Charles VII ( ancestral list of the Valois ) and Agnès Sorel
      1. Louis de Brézé , † 1532, Comte de Maulévrier, buried in the Cathedral of Rouen ; ⚭ (Marriage contract of March 29, 1514) Diane de Poitiers , * September 3, 1499, † April 22 or 26, 1566 at Castle Anet , daughter of Jean de Poitiers , Seigneur de Saint-Vallier ( House of Poitiers-Valentinois ), and Jeanne de Batarnay
        1. Françoise de Brézé, † October 14, 1557, Countess of Maulévrier, Dame d ' Arlempdes , et de Vielprat ; ⚭ January 19, 1538 in Paris Robert IV. De La Marck , 1536 Lord of Sedan etc., 1552 Duke of Bouillon , Marshal of France , † November 4, 1556
        2. Louise de Brézé, † January 1577, Dame d'Anet, ⚭ January 1, 1547 Claude de Lorraine , 1550 Duke of Aumale , Peer of France , † March 3, 1573 ( House of Guise )

literature

Footnotes

  1. ↑ stabbed to death by her husband who surprised her red-handed during adultery, Van Kerrebrouck, Nouvelle histoire généalogique de l'auguste maison de France, Volume III, Les Valois (2000), p. 133; Père Anselme , André Duchesne and Louis Moréri give Romiers (or Rosiers) near Dourdan (Essonne) as the location of the crime . A place with this name cannot be determined. Pierre Bayle writes: It is not true that the act took place in Romiers near Dourdan; Jacques de Brezé stabbed his wife in the village of Rouvres, on a small river called Vegre, two miles from Houdan and half a mile from Anet . (in: Pierre Bayle: An Historial and Critical Dictionary , London 1826, pp. 265f, [1] ). Rosiers-lez-Dourdan can be found in: Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matiéres… , 1804 [2] ; Schwennicke: murdered 15./16. June 1477 in "Romiers" near Dourdan