Guillaume de Chalon-Arlay

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Guillaume de Chalon-Arlay († October 27, 1475 in the Château d ' Orange ) was Prince of Orange .

Life

Guillaume de Chalon was the only child of Louis II. De Chalon , Prince of Orange, Seigneur d' Orbe , d' Echallens , de Grandson, etc., and his first wife Jeanne de Montbéliard, Dame de Montfaucon .

In 1435 he belonged as Monseigneur d'Argueil filz du prince d'Orange to the Burgundian legation that negotiated the Treaty of Arras . On August 19, 1438 he married Catherine de Bretagne, Dame de l'Epine-Gandin, de La Ferté-Milon , de Nogent-l'Artaud , de Gandelu etc. by marriage contract (* probably 1428; † before April 22, 1476) , Daughter of Richard de Bretagne , Comte d'Étampes ( House of France-Dreux ) and Marguerite d'Orléans, Comtesse de Vertus .

With the death of his father on December 3, 1463, he inherited the Principality of Orange as Guillaume VIII , and he was also Seigneur d ' Arlay , d' Arguel ( Free County of Burgundy ) etc.

In 1473 he was - in the context of the dispute between the French King Louis XI. and Charles the Bold , Duke of Burgundy , whose troops had invaded Picardy at that time - in the Free County on the orders of Louis XI. captured. In the Treaty of Rouen of June 6, 1475, he undertook to pay homage to the ruler of the Dauphiné , i.e. the French Dauphin (and thus, in fact, King Louis XI.) For his principality , which was presented to the governor of the Dauphiné , Jean de Daillon , Seigneur du Lude , happened, and was released on September 15, 1475, but died shortly afterwards and was buried in the Franciscan Church of Orange. This first attempt to incorporate the Principality of Orange into the Dauphiné, however, only lasted until August 20, 1498, when King Louis XII. canceled the contract.

The only child from his marriage was Jean de Chalon († April 8, 1502), in 1475 as Jean IV. Prince of Orange, also Sire d'Arlay et d'Arguel, French councilor and chamberlain; ⚭ (1) Brussels October 21, 1467 Jeanne de Bourbon († July 10, 1493), daughter of Charles I , Duc de Bourbon , Pair de France , and Agnès de Bourgogne ; ⚭ (2) January 1494 Philiberte de Luxembourg, Comtesse de Charny († May 26, 1539), daughter of Antoine I. de Luxembourg , Comte de Brienne ( House Luxemburg-Ligny , and Antoinette de Bauffremont, Comtesse de Charny et de Montfort ( House Bauffremont )

Since Guillaume was the brother-in-law of Duke (1458) Francis II of Bretagne through his marriage , his son became the presumptive heir of the duchy for a time (until 1492) with Anne de Bretagne's accession to the throne in 1488 and thus assumed an essential role in the government true Brittany.

Guillaume de Chalon had an illegitimate son, Étienne bâtard de Chalon († 1497), Seigneur d ' Orpierre et de Montbrison, 1492 Vice-Prince d'Orange, ⚭ Catherine de Poitiers, and a grandson of this son, Gaucher , from an unknown woman who was born in 1483 and about whom nothing is known.

literature

Web links

  • Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Provence - Valentinois, Diois, Princes d'Orange 1393–1530 (Bourgogne-Comte) ( online , accessed July 31, 2020)

Remarks

  1. ^ Cawley: September 27, 1475
  2. ^ Cawley; What is meant is probably the Château des Princes d'Orange in Cuiseaux
  3. ^ The other children of Louis II. De Chalon come from his second marriage
  4. ↑ Auguste Vallet de Viriville, Chronique de Charles VII roi de France, par Jean Chartier , Paris 1858, Tome 1, Chapter 104, p. 189
  5. ↑ Schwennicke and Cawley, in addition, it is also called Guillaume VII. Called
  6. ↑ Guy Allard, œuvres diversees. Les gouverneurs et les lieutenans généraux au gouvernement de Dauphiné , Grenoble, Jean Verdier impr., 1704, p. 178; JKH de Roo van Alderwerelt: De voorgeschiedenis van het wapen gevoerd door de eerste prins van Orange uit het geslacht van de graven van Nassau , in: Jaarboek van het Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie , Part XXV (1971)
  7. ^ Cawley: April 25, 1502
personal data
SURNAME Guillaume de Chalon-Arlay
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guillaume VIII, Prince of Orange; Seigneur d'Arguel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Provencal nobleman and military
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1475
Place of death orange