Chantecoq
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| region | Center-Val de Loire | |
| Department | Loiret | |
| Arrondissement | Montargis | |
| Canton | Courtenay | |
| Community association | Cléry, Betz et l'Ouanne | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 3 ' N , 2 ° 57' E | |
| height | 115-167 m | |
| surface | 15.93 km 2 | |
| Residents | 494 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 31 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 45320 | |
| INSEE code | 45073 | |
| Website | www.mairie-chantecoq.fr | |
Chantecoq is a French commune in the department of Loiret in the region Center-Val de Loire . It belongs to the arrondissement of Montargis and the canton of Courtenay . The place extends over an area of 1593 hectares and has 494 inhabitants (January 1, 2017), the altitude is 131 meters. It lies on the banks of the Cléry River .
Until the siege of the castle, which has since been destroyed during the Wars of Religion, also called Courtainville, the place is said to have assumed the name Chantecoq, according to oral tradition, since the besiegers were spotted in front of the castle at the first crowing of the cocks, an explanation that is implausible since the Name Chantecoq is used in older documents.
history
Chantecoq was owned by the noble Courtenay family since the 12th century . In 1148, Renaud de Courtenay owned the Chantecoq Château-Renard , Montargis , Champignelles , Bléneau , Tanlay , Charny and other areas in the Gâtinais , the Hurepoix and the Sénonais . His daughter Elisabeth de Courtenay after 1150 with Pierre de France (around 1126–1180 / 3), the youngest son of Louis VI. had been married, preferred to reside in Chantecoq during her widowhood, where she built a chapel and endowed a chaplain with an annual income of ten pounds. After her death, Chantecoq passed into the possession of her second son Robert de Courtenay († 1239) in 1210 and fell temporarily to the crown in 1218 under King Philippe Auguste .
Balduin (Baudoin de Courtenay, 1218-around 1273), fifth son of Robert's brother Peter (Pierre de Courtenay, * around 1155, Emperor of Constantinople from 1216 to 1217, † around 1218), who was eleven years old in 1228 elder brother Robert (Emperor of Constantinople from 1221 to 1228) succeeded as the fourth and last ruler of the Latin Empire , thanks to Louis IX. , to whom he sold the Passion relics in 1237 , which were later to be exhibited in the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, took possession of Chantecoq in the same year. In 1261, the time of the fall of the Latin Empire, Baldouin Chantecoq had given his wife Marie de Brienne († around 1275) as Wittum, who left it to their son Philippe von Courtenay († 1283), who in 1285 from his daughter Catherine de Courtenay († 1307/1308) was inherited.
In 1302 Katharina married the widowed brother of King Philip IV , Count Karl I of Valois and ancestor of the dynasty of the same name, to whom she gave a son and three daughters who died young. The eldest, Katharina von Valois (1303-1346) inherited the title and possessions of her mother in 1308 at the age of five, but in 1313, the year of her marriage to Prince Philip I of Taranto , it was overwritten by her father, Charles of Valois were. With that, Chantecoq came into the possession of the House of Valois and soon afterwards to the French crown.
Charles I of Valois transferred the possessions of his daughter Katharina, who came from his second marriage, to his eldest son from his first marriage, Philip of Valois, who was named Philip VI in 1328 . ascended the French throne. Under his successor, John the Good , who was taken prisoner during the Hundred Years War in 1356, the English occupied and devastated Chantecoq and destroyed the castle. Then Chantecoq and Courtenay went one after the other to Johann II , Count of Saarbrücken , to Raymond de Mareuil and the French Queen Isabeau (1395), before Charles VI. from 1404 to 1407 it was temporarily transferred to his brother Ludwig von Orléans . Other owners were Charles III. , King of Navarre , John VI. , Duke of Brittany and Richard of Brittany , Count of Etampes (1420). In 1428 the area was again visited by the English, who burned Courtenay and the Rozoy-le-Vieil monastery .
