Hotel Barbette
The Hôtel Barbette was a Hôtel particulier in Paris that played an important role at the beginning of the 15th century and again in the middle of the 16th century.
It stood in the 3rd arrondissement on the area of a parallelogram more than 100 meters wide on the street front, 180 meters wide at the back and 150 meters deep on the east side of today's Rue Vieille du Temple a little outside of the city wall of Philip Augustus , but inside the city wall of Étienne Marcel . The street that led past the hotel was called Rue Barbette at the time (today's Rue Barbette is a cross street to it that leads through the building at the time), and the city gate that separated Rue Vieille du Temple from Rue Barbette was named after the building Porte Called Barbette. The property was enclosed by
- Rue Vieille du Temple (around 1380 Rue Barbette)
- the Rue des Franc Bourgeois (then Rue de Paradis / Rue des Vieilles Poulies)
- the Rue Payenne, and
- the rue de la Perle (then rue de Thorigny).
Hôtel Barbette dates from the 13th century, its builders were among the from the Champagne stemming Family Barbette , who had particularly towards the end of this and beginning of the 14th century its peak: Pierre Barbette was then Archbishop of Reims (1274-1298) , his nephew Étienne Barbette (II.) was twice (1298-1303 and 1313-1318) Prévôt des marchands . During a popular uprising in 1306, the hotel was looted after Étienne Barbette, as Philip IV's financial advisor, had devalued the money for the third time.
Jean de Montaigu (1363-1409) bought the Hôtel Barbette, had it rebuilt, and sold it to Queen Isabeau (1370-1435), who gave birth to at least one of her children in this house, namely on November 10, 1407 Prince Philip, who died a few hours later. Almost two weeks later, on November 23, 1407 , when Duke Ludwig von Orléans left the Hôtel Barbette after visiting the Queen, he was murdered by about fifteen men acting on behalf of his rival Johann Ohnefurcht , Duke of Burgundy . This murder marked the beginning of the Armagnac and Bourguignons civil war .
The house was later owned by the Brézé family , from whom Louis de Brézé , Count of Maulévrier , gave it to his wife Diana of Poitiers (1499 / 1500–1566), who lived here with her lover, King Henry II (1519–1559 ) received. Her daughters divided the property up in 1561 to sell it. Parts of the structure were torn down, new streets were drawn, Marshal Francois-Anne d'Estrées, father of Gabrielle d'Estrées , had a new palace built here. His successors were La Briffe and Bourrée de Corberon - but the buildings, officially known as Hôtel d'Estrées, were still popularly known as Hôtel Barbette.
At the corner of Rue Vieille du Temple and Rue des Francs-Bourgeois, there is still a Gothic-style house with an overhanging turret, the last remnant of the Hôtel Barbette.
literature
- Le Journal des Travaux publics, August 14, 1851