Guy de Brimeu

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Guy de Brimeus coat of arms in the church of Querrieu
Guy de Brimeu in the Book of Arms of the Order of the Golden Fleece (The Hague, KB, 76 E 10, fol.75v)

Guy de Brimeu (* 1433/34; † April 3, 1477 in Ghent , beheaded), Lord of Humbercourt and Querrieu , Count of Megen , Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece , was the most important member of the Brimeu family .

Life

Guy de Brimeu was the eldest son of Jean II. De Brimeu († 1441), from whom he inherited the rule of Humbercourt, and Marie de Mailly († 1470). His mother married Jacques de Banquetin († 1453) in 1443 who became the young Guy's stepfather.

Guy grew up at the Burgundian court together with Charles the Bold , then still Count of Charolais, and was one of his closest confidants and advisers. In Charles's service he took part in numerous campaigns and diplomatic missions, including the 1452 campaign against the rebellious Ghent. In 1461 he was the captain of Charles' archers in Paris.

A few years later he was given offices as governor of Charles in the Dutch Burgundian territories, which he held not one after the other, but simultaneously:

  • In the Principality of Liège from September 1466 (here he soon had to withdraw from the city due to an uprising of the residents; the following year he was captured by the Liège and could only be released after paying a large sum of ransom), moreover
  • Late 1468 / early 1469 in Namur
  • October 26, 1472 in Marle
  • June 1, 1473 in Overmaas as well
  • June / July 1473 in Geldern

He administered Liège, Namur, Overmaas and Geldern centrally from Maastricht , for which purpose he set up a new council chamber.

On February 16, 1470 he was raised to the rank of Count von Megen, on May 9, 1473 accepted into the Order of the Golden Fleece ( Diploma No. 78 ) and on July 6, 1473 appointed Imperial Count Palatinate in Baden-Baden . From August 2, 1473 to July / August 1474, he was also governor of Luxembourg . In 1474/75 he was considered the most important Burgundian diplomat during the siege of Neuss , and during the Burgundian Wars (1474–1477) he was a member of the Regency Council, which represented the absent Duke in the Netherlands.

In 1475 he delivered the Connétable of France Louis of Luxembourg to King Louis XI. who suspected, accused and convicted him of high treason and had him beheaded on December 19, 1475 on the Place de Grève in Paris. Guy de Brimeu suffered the same fate after the death of Charles the Bold on January 7, 1477. He, the Chancellor Guillaume Hugonet and the heiress Maria of Burgundy were arrested in Ghent by the inhabitants of the city, Brimeu and Hugonet were accused and convicted of high treason, finally beheaded on April 3, 1477 in Ghent against the resistance of Mary. It was she who, after the execution, had Guy de Brimeu's body brought to Arras to be buried in the cathedral there. His tombstone was found in 1849 and is now in the Museum of the City of Arras.

family

After a marriage contract concluded on March 19, 1453, he married Antonia de Rambures († 1517), daughter of Jacques de Rambures and Marie-Antoinette de Berghes. The marriage has seven children:

  1. Charles, * after November 10, 1471; † January 1474/29. May 1477
  2. Adrien, * 1471/72; † in the battle of Marignano September 14, 1515, knight, French councilor and chamberlain; ⚭ before August 15, 1475 Catherine de Croy, daughter of Jean II. De Croy, Count of Chimay (House of Croy)
  3. Adrienne, * 1471/72; † June 1, 1500; ⚭ (marriage contract December 12, 1487) Johann III. von Glymes in Bergen op Zoom , Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, † January 20, 1531 ( House of Glymes )
  4. Daughter (Charlotte), born August 10, 1472; † 1473/84
  5. Eustache, * around 1474; † 1547/48, Count von Megen, followed in 1496 in Wezemaal, Burgundian councilor and chamberlain; ⚭ 1522 Barbe von Hille, to Éperlecques ; † after August 7, 1544, daughter of Franz von Hille, Count von Thurn, and Margarete Bastard of Austria
  6. Lamberte, * around 1474; † May 27, 1556; ⚭ I before July 15, 1488, divorced, Johann VII., Baron von Merode; † July 14, 1497 ( Merode House ); ⚭ II (marriage contract April 26, 1491) Ferri de Croy, Seigneur du Roeulx , Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece; † June 17, 1524 ( House of Croy )
  7. Guye, * around 1475; † June 18/16. November 1518; ⚭ (marriage contract August 1, 1497) Jean du Bos, Seigneur d ' Esquerdes ; † before May 12, 1511

literature

  • Werner Paravicini: Guy de Brimeu. The Burgundian state and its aristocratic ruling class under Charles the Bold . (= Paris historical studies; 12). Röhrscheid, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7928-0344-5 ( digital version (under "PDF") )
  • Werner Paravicini: Brimeu, Guy de . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 2, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-7608-8902-6 , Sp. 692.
  • Detlev Schwennicke: European Family Tables Volume VII (1979) Plate 65.
  • Raphaël de Smedt (ed.): Les chevaliers de l'ordre de la Toison d'or au XVe siècle. Notices bio-bibliographiques. 2nd edition, Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-631-36017-7 ( Kieler Werkstücke . Series D, no. 3), pp. 177-179, no. 76.

Web links

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  1. ^ According to Smedt, Chevaliers, p. 177, the marriage contract is dated March 14, 1463.
personal data
SURNAME Guy de Brimeu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Count of Megen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Burgundian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1433 or 1434
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1477
Place of death Ghent