François I. d'Orléans-Longueville

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François I. d'Orléans (* 1447 , † November 25, 1491 in Châteaudun ), Comte de Dunois , de Longueville et de Tancarville , was a French nobleman and military; he was Governor of Normandy , Governor of the Dauphiné and Grand Chamberlain of France .

Life

François d'Orléans was the son of Jean, Bâtard d'Orléans (1402–1468), Comte de Porcéan , Comte de Périgord , Comte de Châteaudun , de Dunois et de Longueville, and Marie d'Harcourt (1420–1464), lady de Parthenay , Secondigny , Vouvant , Mervent , Mathefelon , Durtal and Varenguebec .

With the death of his mother in 1464 he inherited their property. With the death of his father in 1468 he became Comte de Longueville, de Dunois etc. In 1488 he succeeded his cousin Jeanne d'Harcourt as Comte de Tancarville (connected with the offices of Connétable and Chambellan de Normandie), Viscount de Melun , Baron de Montgommery etc.

François I. d'Orléans married on July 2, 1468 in Montargis Agnes of Savoy (* 1446; † Paris March 15, 1509, buried in Notre-Dame de Cléry), daughter of Duke Louis of Savoy and Anne de Lusignan , and sister of Charlotte of Savoy , Queen of France as wife of King Louis XI. He became governor of Normandy and on November 13, 1483 - shortly after the death of King Louis XI. - appointed governor of the Dauphiné. During this time he supported the Queen's widow Charlotte of Savoy, who, with the support of her brother-in-law, claimed the guardianship of her underage son Charles VIII and thus competed with her own daughter Anne de Beaujeu , who also reigned for her underage brother wanted to exercise; Before the conflict between the two women could be resolved, Charlotte of Savoy died on December 1, 1483 in Amboise after only three months of widowhood .

François d'Orléans took part in the coronation of Charles VIII on May 30, 1484 and in 1485 was appointed Lord Chamberlain of France. He later joined the prince revolt called Guerre folle , which was directed against the reign of Anne de Beaujeus under the leadership of the Duke of Orléans (later King Louis XII ). In November 1486 he entrenched himself in his castle of Parthenay, which was captured by the regent's troops on March 30, 1487, whereupon François fled to Nantes to the Duke of Orléans. On January 20, 1488, the parlement in Paris declared the dukes Francis II of Brittany and Louis of Orléans to be rebels and thus pronounced them guilty of lese majesty ( Lèse-majesté ). With the decisive defeat of the insurgents in the Battle of Saint-Aubin on July 28, 1488, the war came to a standstill. After the death of Francis II on September 4, 1488, many of the noble rebels, including François d'Orléans, were amnestied.

In the subsequent dispute over the hand of the heiress Anne de Bretagne and after her marriage to Maximilian of Austria in December 1490, as well as the military reaction of Charles VIII (invasion of Nantes on March 20, 1491), François d'Orléans was next to the chancellor Philippe de Montauban and Jean IV. De Chalon-Arlay - the young Duchess' most important ministers. On the Breton side, he brokered the bond between the French king and the new Breton duchess, who led to the engagement on November 19, 1491 and the wedding on December 6, 1491.

Shortly before, on September 25, 1491, François d'Orléans-Longueville had died in Châteaudun (his successor in the marriage negotiations was Chalon-Arlay). He was buried in the church of Notre-Dame de Cléry , rebuilt by his father , in which the body of King Louis XI. lies.

marriage and family

François I. d'Orléans married on July 2, 1468 in Montargis Agnes of Savoy (* 1446; † Paris March 15, 1509, buried in Notre-Dame de Cléry), daughter of Duke Ludwig of Savoy and Anne de Lusignan . Your children are:

In addition, he had an illegitimate son, Jean, from an unknown woman

literature

Web link

  • Étienne Pattou, Ducs d'Orléans, Angoulême et Longueville , p. 10 ( online , accessed June 11, 2020)

Remarks

  1. ↑ Schwennicke; Pattou: 1st Duc de Longueville
  2. ↑ See the article on Charlotte of Savoy
  3. ↑ Schwennicke; Pattou: * around 1478, † February 12, 1512
  4. ↑ Schwennicke; Pattou: 2nd Duc de Longueville
  5. ↑ Schwennicke; Pattou: * 1490
  6. ↑ Schwennicke; Pattou: * 1480
  7. ↑ Schwennicke; Pattou: 1505
  8. ↑ Schwennicke; Pattou: * 1484
personal data
SURNAME Orléans-Longueville, François I. d '
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Orléans, François I. d '; Count of Dunois; Count of Longueville; Earl of Tancarville
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French nobleman, Grand Chamberlain of France, Governor of Normandy and Dauphiné
DATE OF BIRTH 1447
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1491
Place of death Châteaudun