Guillaume de Poitiers (Governor)

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Guillaume de Poitiers

Guillaume de Poitiers (* probably 1454/55; † June 2, 1503 in Lyon ) was a French nobleman, military man and civil servant who twice took over the office of governor of Paris .

Life

Guillaume de Poitiers was the younger son of Charles II. De Poitiers († 1455), Seigneur de Saint-Vallier, de Clérieux , de Chalencon etc., Governor of Provence , and Anne de Montlaur († before 1436), Baronne d ' Arlempdes , Dame de Vielprat ; he was born shortly before his father's death. His older brother was Aymar de Poitiers († after 1510), Seigneur de Saint-Vallier etc., Titular-Marchese di Cotrone , who was his first marriage to an illegitimate daughter of King Louis XI. was married to Marguerite de Sassenage .

Guillaume became Seigneur de Clérieux, Marquis de Mipont and Arton, and at the same time with his brother Titular-Marchese di Cotrone. He became councilor and chamberlain in royal services, and in 1478 Louis XI appointed him. to the governor of Paris (he took his oath on November 30, 1478), but only until 1483 at the latest, since this year not only Louis XI. died and Charles VIII ascended the throne, but the office was also taken over by Ludwig von Orleáns . From Louis XI. he had received Bais-sur-Bais, which Charles VIII took away from him in exchange for a pension of 4,000 livres ; just like the Capitainerie de Montlhéry

Charles VIII sent him on a diplomatic mission to Spain and Scotland and then gave him La Roche-de-Glun and Beaumont-Monteux . On June 2, 1496 he reappointed him lieutenant du Roi et Gouverneur de Paris ; how long he performed the task this time is not known. From 1500 to 1502 he held the post of Bailli of Rouen .

Guillaume de Poitiers remained single, but had an illegitimate son of an unknown woman, Claude de Poitiers († August 13, 1546), who became abbot of Montmajour in 1506 and abbot of Saint-Wandrille in 1522 .

literature

  • Detlev Schwennicke , European Family Tables , Volume III.4, 1989, Plate 742
  • Père Anselme, Histoire généalogique et Chronologique… , Volume 2, 1726, pp. 204f
  • Adolphe Rochas, Biographie du Dauphiné , Volume 2, 1860, p. 266
personal data
SURNAME Poitiers, Guillaume de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seigneur de Clérieux, Marquis de Mipont et d'Arton, Marchese di Cotrone
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French nobleman and military
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 1454 or 1455
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1503
Place of death Lyon