François I de Bourbon-Saint-Pol

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François I. de Bourbon, chalk drawing from the school of François Clouet , around 1544, Musée Condé

François I. de Bourbon (born October 6, 1491 in Ham , † September 1, 1545 in Cotignan near Reims ) was Count of Saint-Pol and Chaumont , Duke of Estouteville , Pair de France , Governor of Paris , the Île-de- France and the Dauphiné at the time of King Francis I.

Life

François de Bourbon is the third son of François de Bourbon, comte de Vendôme († 1495), and Marie de Luxembourg , Comtesse de Saint-Pol († 1547). His older brother is Charles de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme (since 1515), his younger brother is the cardinal (since 1517) Louis de Bourbon-Vendôme ; Claude de Lorraine, duc de Guise, was his brother-in-law (from 1513). Like King Francis I, who was three years his junior, he was knighted by Pierre du Terrail , Chevalier de Bayard, after the Battle of Marignano (September 13-14, 1515) .

In 1518 he got the counties of Saint-Pol and Chaumont from his mother. On December 16, 1519 he was appointed Lieutenant-général et Gouverneur de Paris et de l'Île-de-France . As captain-general en commission der Bandes françaises he took part in the siege of Mézières in 1521 , fought alongside Bonnivet and Bayard in the Battle of the Sesia in 1524 and was captured in the Battle of Pavia in 1525 .

On July 27, 1527 he was promoted to Pair de France. In the same year he became governor of the Dauphiné and gave up the office for Paris and Île-de-France. As such, in the midst of the war, the League of Cognac was to hold the bases of French operations for successive campaigns in Savoy and Piedmont ; however, his army was defeated in the Battle of Landriano (June 21, 1529) and he himself was taken prisoner.

In 1533 he took part in the meeting of Francis I with Pope Clement VII in Marseille . In the fourth war of Charles V against Francis I in 1536 he was commissioned to conquer Savoy. In 1537 he exchanged the county of Saint-Pol with the king for the county of Montfort-l'Amaury , in 1544 he got Saint-Pol back.

On September 1, 1542 he re-founded the University of Grenoble, which had fallen two centuries earlier .

In 1542 he supported the Dauphin in his battles in Picardy and Luxembourg. In 1543 he was a member of the French general staff against the English and French in Picardy . Before the Battle of Ceresole (April 11, 1544) he argued against the attack, but was overruled by Blaise de Monluc , who won the battle.

marriage and family

By marriage contract of February 9 and 11, 1534, he married Adrienne d'Estouteville (* October 20, 1512, † 1560 after December 15), who was appointed Duchess of Estouteville by King Francis I in August 1534 (the survey was registered with the Parlement in Rouen on September 2, 1534), heir daughter of Jacques d'Estouteville and Jacqueline d'Estouteville. Your children are:

  • François II. De Bourbon (born January 14, 1536 - † October 4, 1546), 1545 3rd Duc d'Estouteville, 3rd Comte de Saint-Pol et de Chaumont, Pair de France.
  • Marie II. De Bourbon (born May 30, 1539 - † April 7, 1601), 4th Duchesse d'Estouteville, 4th Comtesse de Saint-Pol, 1592 Countess of Valangin, Pair de France; ∞ (1) (marriage contract June 14, 1557) Jean de Bourbon, Comte de Soissons et d ' Enghien , 5th Duc d'Estouteville (* July 16, 1528; X August 10, 1557 in the battle of Saint-Quentin ), Son of Charles de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme , and Françoise d'Alençon, duchesse de Beaumont, their cousin ( Bourbon-Vendôme ); ∞ (2) September 6, 1561, divorced 1561, François II. De Clèves, duc de Nevers (X December 19, 1562 at the Battle of Dreux ) ( House of Mark ; ∞ (3) July 12, 1563 Léonor d'Orléans, duc de Longueville, Count of Neuchâtel , 1563 Duc d'Estouteville (iure uxoris) (* 1540 - † 7 August 1573), son of François d'Orléans-Longueville, marquis de Rothelin, and Jacqueline de Rohan ( Orléans-Longueville ) .

literature

Web links

  • Étienne Pattou, Maison de Bourbon, pp. 18 and 22 ( online , accessed May 11, 2020)

Remarks

  1. ^ Livre du Centenaire de la Faculté de Droit , 1906, p. 22 ( online )
  2. ↑ Schwennicke; Pattou: * May 2, 1539
personal data
SURNAME Bourbon-Saint-Pol, François I. de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bourbon, François I. de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French nobleman and military man, governor of Paris, governor of the Dauphiné, lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1491
PLACE OF BIRTH Ham
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1545
Place of death Cotignan near Reims