Bureau de la Rivière

Bureau de la Rivière († 1400 ) was chamberlain to King Charles V and advisor to King Charles VI.

Life

Bureau de la Rivière was the son of Jean de la Rivière († before 1349) and Isebeau Angerant. He was already in the service of Charles V when he was still regent, and after his accession to the throne (1364) became his chamberlain and advisor. Of all the courtiers around the king, he was the closest to the monarch, and was more of a friend and confidante to him. He entrusted him with numerous diplomatic missions, including the treaty with Castile , which he concluded in 1380.

After the death of Charles V in the same year, he fell at the instigation of Walrams III. of Luxembourg , Count of Saint-Pol , in disgrace. Only with the end of the reign of the dukes (1388) did he return to power at the head of the Marmousets . The reform decrees of Charles of February and March 1389 go back to them for the most part.

The outbreak of Charles' insanity in 1392 brought the return of the dukes and the end of the power of the Marmousets. Bureau de la Rivière took refuge in his Château d ' Auneau , where he was arrested in October 1392. Like Jean Le Mercier , he was accused of his work, but also of the wealth he had acquired in the process. He was released on January 31, 1394. After his exile, he withdrew to the Dauphiné . He came back to Paris, but no longer played a role there.

After his death, Bureau de la Rivière - like Bertrand du Guesclin and Louis de Sancerre - received the exceptional privilege of being buried in the Saint-Denis basilica . Jean de la Grange achieved that his statue was incorporated into the Beau Pilier on the north facade of Amiens Cathedral .

When the royal tombs of Saint-Denis were sacked during the French Revolution , his grave was opened and looted on October 20, 1793, and his remains were buried in a mass grave outside the church.

literature

• Françoise Autrand: Charles VI: la folie du roi. Fayard, Paris 1986.
• Georges Bordonove: Les Rois qui ont fait la France - Les Valois - Charles V le Sage. Tome 1. éditions Pygmalion, 1988.
• Jean Favier : Dictionnaire de la France médiévale. Éditions Fayard, Paris 1993.