Guillaume Flote

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Guillaume Flote (* around 1280 or 1280/90; † after 1366), Seigneur de Ravel , Escole et Plassac, was a French lawyer and chancellor of King Philip VI. His career in royal service spanned half a century.

Until 1328

Guillaume Flote was the son of Pierre Flote , Chancellor of Philip IV , and Alix de Châtillon-en-Bazois, called Flandrine. He married Elips de Melo in his first marriage and after 1339 Jeanne d'Amboise in his second marriage.

Flote was a regular cleric who began his career as a canon and archdeacon of Brabant in 1298 . After the death of his father in 1302 he took over the rule of Ravel and left church service. The following year he became the king's knight.

From 1307 to 1313 he was Maître des requêtes in Languedoc . In 1313 he began his first major diplomatic mission when he was sent to the English King Edward II , whom he was to persuade to conclude peace with the Kingdom of Scotland . In 1314 Guillaume Flote worked as a Conseiller in the Grand'chambre des Parlement in Paris, later he was the executor of Count Robert de Clermont's will († 1317). Under King Philip V (1317-1322) he is used in Toulouse and Champagne . Under King Charles IV (1322-1328) he acted as envoy in Flanders to the Avignon Pope John XXII. (1325).

Under Philip VI.

At the beginning of his reign, Philip VI. Guillaume Flote as a diplomat. In 1329 he brokered a peace between Humbert II of Viennois and Eduard of Savoy . In 1331 he takes part in negotiations with Edward III. part of England . A little later he loses the favor of the king, the reasons for which are unknown and it is only suspected that his proximity to Robert III. by Artois , who was exiled in 1332, was the trigger.

From 1335 he is again in the vicinity of the king. He was made Seneschal of Toulouse and finally Chancellor of the King in 1338. Now he is one of the most influential members of the Conseil du roi, next to Jean de Marigny , Bishop of Beauvais and brother of Enguerrand de Marigny , who was executed in 1315 , as well as Marshals Miles de Noyers and Mathieu de Trie , respectively - after the replacement of Miles de Noyers and his Burgundian supporters in 1343 - Jean de Marigny, Jean de Nesle and Jean de Thil. From the end of 1344 to August 1346 he secured during the campaign of Philip VI. against the English together with Jean de Nesle and Hugues d'Arcy, the later bishop of Laon , the power of the king in Paris. On August 26, 1346 he was one of the army commanders in the Battle of Crécy . In 1349, through the Treaty of Romans, he succeeded in acquiring the Dauphiné for the crown.

End of career

In view of the dissatisfaction of the Estates General of 1347 with his policies, Guillaume Flote resigned from his office as Chancellor in early 1348, but remained a member of the Conseil du roi. This did not change at first when John II took office in 1350. Despite his old age, he was still entrusted with diplomatic tasks. During this time he succeeded in acquiring Montpellier from the King of Mallorca .

In 1355 he was one of the royal advisors who surrounded the future King Charles V when he first appeared in front of the estates, as did later when Karl took over the reign of his captive father. In 1357 Guillaume Flote took part in several negotiations with Étienne Marcel and his supporters. After the attack by the Parisians on the Palais de la Cité on February 22, 1358, he left the Conseil du Roi in March, but returned at the end of 1360, after the release of John II.

Guillaume Flote died in the mid-1360s, probably over 80 years old. His son Pierre had already died in 1350, so that the rule of Revel passed from him directly to his grandson of the same name.

literature

  • Robert-Henri Bautier, Recherches sur la chancellerie royale au temps de Philippe VI , Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes, 1965 online
  • Raymond Cazelles , Une chancellerie privilégiée: celle de Philippe VI de Valois , Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes, 1966 online
  • Raymond Cazelles, La Société politique et la crise de la royauté sous Philippe de Valois , Bibliothèque elzévirienne, Paris, 1958
  • Françoise Autrand , Charles V , Paris, Fayard, 1994

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Bautier, p. 1, and Cazelles (1966), p. 12
  2. ^ Cazelles (1966), p. 14
  3. ^ Cazelles, La Société politique et la crise de la royauté sous Philippe de Valois p. 93
  4. ↑ Cazelles (1966) pp. 169-171
  5. ^ Cazelles (1966), pp. 178-179.
personal data
SURNAME Flote, Guillaume
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Legist and Chancellor of King Philip VI.
DATE OF BIRTH around 1285
DATE OF DEATH after 1366