Guy de Pesteils

Coat of arms of Guy II. De Pesteils

Guy II. De Pesteils (* around 1344 in Avignon ; † 1403 ) was papal captain, knight of the bishopric of Tulle , Seigneur de Salers , des Tours de Merle, de Bonnieux , de la Valmasque et de Maubec ; he is the son of Aymeric II. de Pesteils and Florence de Besse, the sister of Nicolas de Besse , the Cardinal of Limoges.

Life

As the great-nephew of Clemens VI. and cousin of Raimond de Turenne , he took part in the campaigns against the Visconti family , as well as in the return of Pope Gregory XI. to Rome. During the entire war that the Viscount de Turenne waged in Provence against the Avignon papacy and Marie de Blois , Countess of Provence, Guy de Pesteils was at his side, be it to wage war or in important negotiations with Clement VII and Benedict XIII in his name . respectively.

Les Tours de Merle, fief of the Pesteils family

The nepotism of Clement VI.

Guy II. De Pesteils was born in Avignon, where his parents had lived since 1343. Clement VI., Who in his pontificate to nepotism raised an institution, made only from Nicolas de Besse a prince of the church by him on May 19, 1344 Cardinal Deacon of Santa Maria in Via Lata appointed. He then took care of the future of his niece's family.

Aymeric de Pesteils received the Terre de Branzac on October 26, 1346 . A year later, on May 26th, he negotiated with Rigaud de Carbonnières and received the Hôtel de Pesteils within the Château de Merle as a noble residence.

The death of her uncle on December 6, 1352 did not end the family's acquisition of fiefs. With the help of Cardinal de Limoges, his brother-in-law of the mighty Arnaud Via , Vicomte de Villemur , great-nephew of John XXII. To acquire pensions on the castles of Salers and Fontanges . The contract was initialed on February 17, 1357, Aymeric de Pesteils signed it as a knight, Seigneur de Merle et de Branzac. His son Guy married Hélis de Fontanges some time later.

The death of the Cardinal of Limoges on November 5, 1369 marked a temporary end to the acquisition of fiefs for the plague. The choice of her cousin Gregory XI. to the Pope at the end of 1370 there was then a second chance.

Guy II. De Pesteils, papal captain

At the end of the summer of 1371, Guy moved to Piedmont and Lombardy against the Visconti at the side of his cousin Raimond de Turenne . Before leaving, he received assurances that his family's weapons would be placed in Avignon Cathedral. He took his quarters in Demonte and was instructed with his troops to secure the passage of the valley of the Stura di Demonte , which controlled the Larche pass . Guy returned to Avignon in 1373 and only found out now from his brother Jean, the chaplain of Gregory XI. had become that his wife had died.

At the beginning of the summer of 1375, Guy de Pesteils married Anna d'Albars in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon . The return of Gregory XI. to Rome in 1376 ended his stay in Avignon. Raimond de Turenne, captain general of the papal armies, hired him as one of his lieutenants. In Italy, during April 1377, Guy took part in the expedition against Viterbo and Bolsena , two cities in revolt against the Pope, and was captured in the process.

As rector of the Comtat Venaissin granted him his cousin Guillaume III. Roger de Beaufort as a reward for his services in 1377 rights and income to Bonnieux and la Valmasque at Ménerbes .

On the orders of Raimond de Turenne, Guy de Pesteils stayed after the death of Gregory XI. in Italy. According to the last papal wishes, he had the military occupation of Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome as early as May 1378 . Accompanied by followers of the captain general of the papal armies and other members of his family, he stayed with the troops of Urban VI for 14 months .

The western schism from 1378 onwards led to four victories for Guys in September of that year. He did not receive the outstanding money until after March 1, 1379. His fiefdom was then exchanged for that of Maubec.

The Plenipotentiary Raimond de Turennes

During the long war that Raimond waged in Provence against two antipopes and the regent of the county, Guy de Pesteils was his agent on at least two occasions.

The first time, between the middle and the end of September 1386, he was instructed to conduct secret negotiations with Marie de Blois and Clement VII on behalf of the Viscount.

When in June 1398 talks between Raymond de Turenne and Benedict XIII. began, these were again managed by intermediary agents. The Viscount again selected his cousin Guy, as well as Pierre Chalon and Mérigot de Palisses as further negotiators.

The Viscount's confidante

The astute negotiator could suddenly become a warrior. This was the case in December 1390. Guy de Pesteils came to Raymond de Turenne in Maubec in the Luberon at the head of an army command . Together, the cousins began to plunder the area around Apt and Sault in order to take revenge for the Viscount on the Agoult / Simiane family, who had incited the Marseillaisers to attack his fiefs and tariffs in the Basse Provence.

During the summer of 1395, Guy de Pesteils moved to Mison with his wife in the wake of the failure of the negotiations as Raimond de Turenne for the patis (or suffertes ) imposed in Provence . His cousin had given him the task of overseeing the proper receipt of the ransom payments ordered by Gantonnet d'Abzac from the towns and villages, as well as resolving conflicts that might arise between his various captains.

Guy de Pesteils returned to the Limousin in 1399 with his cousin Raimond . He wrote his will in 1403. From his marriages he had three children, including Guy III. de Pesteils, called Guinot, who inherited his fiefs in the Limousin and Auvergne .

literature

Robert Brun, Annales avignonnaises de 1382 à 1410 extraites des archives Datini , Mémoire de l'Institut historique de Provence, 1935–1938
Régis Veydarier, Raymond de Turenne, la deuxième maison d'Anjou et de Provence: étude d'une rebellion nobiliaire à la fin du Moyen Age , thèse de l'Université de Montréal (Québec), 1994.

Web links

Saint-Geniez-ô-Merle et les Tours de Merle ( online )
Les châteaux des sept seigneurs des Tours de Merle ( online )

Remarks

↑ In Saint-Geniez-ô-Merle

↑ Florence and Nicolas de Besse were niece and nephew of Pope Clement VI. by her mother Delphine Roger, wife of Jacques de Besse.

↑ After Veydarier Guy de Pesteils and Raymond de Turenne grew up together.

^ Archives d'Anglars de Bassignac in the Château de Branzac. Copy from May 2, 1779 to the year 1371: À Avignon, quittance donnée à Guy de Pesteils par les frères mineurs d'Avignon pour 1 000 florins légués à eux par son oncle le chanoine Guy, pour a fondation à la chapelle Saint-Martial [ de Notre-Dame des Doms] à charge de célébrer deux anniversaires par an, de refaire la voûte de l'église et y mettre les armes des seigneurs de Pesteils - "In Avignon a receipt that Guy de Pesteils from the Minorites of Avignon for 1,000 florins left by his uncle, Canon Guy, for his foundation in the chapel of Saint-Martial [in Notre-Dame des Doms], to celebrate two anniversaries a year, to rebuild the vault of the church and to bring the To lay arms of the Lords of Pesteils. "

^ In December 1373, when Gregory XI. spoke with Raimond de Turenne and his captains in Avignon, Nicola Spinelli , the Seneschal of Provence and Piedmont, replaced Guy de Pesteils with Franceschino Bolleris, Lord of Roccasparvera and Castellan of Demonte. (Archivio di Stato di Torino, Inv. 20, Liv. 2 Cuneo, Mazzo 6, fasc. 14 Demonte, p. 74).

↑ Jean de Pesteils, Archdeacon of Gerona , was Archpriest of Mauriac in 1372 and the Pope's chaplain in 1373. He wrote his will in 1378.

↑ On this occasion, on August 4, 1375, Guy II. De Pesteils, knight, and his wife, the noble lady Anne d'Albars, received from Gregory XI. a portable altar (Archives des Anglars de Bassignac in the Château de Branzac).

↑ The attack on Bolsena by the captain general was a bitter failure. Francesco di Vico, the prefect of Rome, warned of the coming of the papal troops, attacked Raymond de Turenne and captured him with twenty knights, all relatives of the pope and the cardinals. See Guillaume Mollat , Lettres secrètes et curiales du pape Grégoire XI intéressant les autres pays que la France , Bibliothèque des écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, 1962 - 1965. The Pope's two letters are dated August 24 and 25, 1377 They were sent from Anagni to Pierre d'Estaing , Cardinal of Ostia, and Nicola Spinelli, Neapolitan Chancellor.

↑ Before his death, Gregory XI. gave the order to leave the Castel Sant'Angelo only at the personal decision of the cardinals who remained in Avignon. In addition to Guy de Pesteils, the Roman fortress was defended by Pierre Mauroux and Yvon Trébignon, squires of Raymond de Turenne, Tristan, the bastard of Beaufort , his uncle, Hugues de la Roche and his son Gérald, his uncle and cousin.

↑ This is what Francesco Boninsegna, Francesco Datini's messenger in Avignon, tells us in a letter he sends to Prato , dated September 24, 1389. Before Boninsegna to Guillaume III. Roger de Beaufort traveled to Pertuis because of a dark story about a toll unpaid by his assistant Filippo, he stopped at Messire Guy in Maubec. See Brun.

↑ In his journal, Jean le Fèvre indicates on September 14th: Item, a la requeste du chamberlan du Pape, j'ai scellé un saulf-conduit à XV jours pour messire Gui de Pesteil . - “On the same day, at the request of the papal chamberlain, I sealed a letter of safe conduct for 15 days for Messire Guy de Pesteil.” Cf. Journal de Jean Le Fèvre, évêque de Chartres, chancelier des rois de Sicile Louis 1er et Louis II d 'Anjou , Ed. Henri Moranvillé, Paris, 1887.

↑ The Viscount demanded the release of Paul Triboulet and Jean David. The two were commissioned in February 1395 to deliver the Pope in Avignon the Demandes que Moussen Raimon, viconte de Turenne, fait à nostre Saint Père le pape et à son chambellan . On the way back they were arrested ès vignes d'Avignon by the men Jean de Brogny , Cardinal de Viviers. They were initially incarcerated in Mondragon , then in Savoy. See Archives Nationales , Series K 1144, No. 37 , under the heading Demande d'indemnités [aid] de Raymond de Turenne à Benoît XIII, 1395 .

↑ This was triggered by the pilgrimage of Raymond d'Agoult, Seigneur de Sault, to the grave of Urban V in Marseille. (Cf. Le peuple des Saints , Mémoires de l'Académie du Vaucluse, Colloque d'Avignon, 1984) During this time, the former Seneschal of Provence, on behalf of Clement VII, suggested that the city council of Marseille consider Le Puy-Sainte- To attack Réparade and Les Pennes , as well as the port of Port Bouc, which served them. In return, the Viscount threw himself on Gardanne , Apt , Castellet , Rustrel , Villars , Lioux , Sault , Revest-du-Bion and other places that belonged to the Agoult / Simiane.

↑ See Testament de Hélie, alias Gantonnet d'Abzac , in: Bulletin du Périgord (November / December 1912).

personal data
SURNAME	Pesteils, Guy de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Captain of the Papal Armies
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1344
PLACE OF BIRTH	Avignon
DATE OF DEATH	1403

[1] In Saint-Geniez-ô-Merle

[2] Florence and Nicolas de Besse were niece and nephew of Pope Clement VI. by her mother Delphine Roger, wife of Jacques de Besse.

[3] After Veydarier Guy de Pesteils and Raymond de Turenne grew up together.

[4] Archives d'Anglars de Bassignac in the Château de Branzac. Copy from May 2, 1779 to the year 1371: À Avignon, quittance donnée à Guy de Pesteils par les frères mineurs d'Avignon pour 1 000 florins légués à eux par son oncle le chanoine Guy, pour a fondation à la chapelle Saint-Martial [ de Notre-Dame des Doms] à charge de célébrer deux anniversaires par an, de refaire la voûte de l'église et y mettre les armes des seigneurs de Pesteils - "In Avignon a receipt that Guy de Pesteils from the Minorites of Avignon for 1,000 florins left by his uncle, Canon Guy, for his foundation in the chapel of Saint-Martial [in Notre-Dame des Doms], to celebrate two anniversaries a year, to rebuild the vault of the church and to bring the To lay arms of the Lords of Pesteils. "

[5] In December 1373, when Gregory XI. spoke with Raimond de Turenne and his captains in Avignon, Nicola Spinelli , the Seneschal of Provence and Piedmont, replaced Guy de Pesteils with Franceschino Bolleris, Lord of Roccasparvera and Castellan of Demonte. (Archivio di Stato di Torino, Inv. 20, Liv. 2 Cuneo, Mazzo 6, fasc. 14 Demonte, p. 74).

[6] Jean de Pesteils, Archdeacon of Gerona , was Archpriest of Mauriac in 1372 and the Pope's chaplain in 1373. He wrote his will in 1378.

[7] On this occasion, on August 4, 1375, Guy II. De Pesteils, knight, and his wife, the noble lady Anne d'Albars, received from Gregory XI. a portable altar (Archives des Anglars de Bassignac in the Château de Branzac).

[8] The attack on Bolsena by the captain general was a bitter failure. Francesco di Vico, the prefect of Rome, warned of the coming of the papal troops, attacked Raymond de Turenne and captured him with twenty knights, all relatives of the pope and the cardinals. See Guillaume Mollat , Lettres secrètes et curiales du pape Grégoire XI intéressant les autres pays que la France , Bibliothèque des écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, 1962 - 1965. The Pope's two letters are dated August 24 and 25, 1377 They were sent from Anagni to Pierre d'Estaing , Cardinal of Ostia, and Nicola Spinelli, Neapolitan Chancellor.

[9] Before his death, Gregory XI. gave the order to leave the Castel Sant'Angelo only at the personal decision of the cardinals who remained in Avignon. In addition to Guy de Pesteils, the Roman fortress was defended by Pierre Mauroux and Yvon Trébignon, squires of Raymond de Turenne, Tristan, the bastard of Beaufort , his uncle, Hugues de la Roche and his son Gérald, his uncle and cousin.

[10] This is what Francesco Boninsegna, Francesco Datini's messenger in Avignon, tells us in a letter he sends to Prato , dated September 24, 1389. Before Boninsegna to Guillaume III. Roger de Beaufort traveled to Pertuis because of a dark story about a toll unpaid by his assistant Filippo, he stopped at Messire Guy in Maubec. See Brun.

[11] In his journal, Jean le Fèvre indicates on September 14th: Item, a la requeste du chamberlan du Pape, j'ai scellé un saulf-conduit à XV jours pour messire Gui de Pesteil . - “On the same day, at the request of the papal chamberlain, I sealed a letter of safe conduct for 15 days for Messire Guy de Pesteil.” Cf. Journal de Jean Le Fèvre, évêque de Chartres, chancelier des rois de Sicile Louis 1er et Louis II d 'Anjou , Ed. Henri Moranvillé, Paris, 1887.

[12] The Viscount demanded the release of Paul Triboulet and Jean David. The two were commissioned in February 1395 to deliver the Pope in Avignon the Demandes que Moussen Raimon, viconte de Turenne, fait à nostre Saint Père le pape et à son chambellan . On the way back they were arrested ès vignes d'Avignon by the men Jean de Brogny , Cardinal de Viviers. They were initially incarcerated in Mondragon , then in Savoy. See Archives Nationales , Series K 1144, No. 37 , under the heading Demande d'indemnités [aid] de Raymond de Turenne à Benoît XIII, 1395 .