Henri II. De Sassenage

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Henri II. De Sassenage , known as Henri Le Roux (* probably 1384; † August 17, 1424 at the Battle of Verneuil , 40 years old) was Baron de Sassenage and governor of the Dauphiné .

Life

Henri II. De Sassenage was the son of Aymar de Sassenage (the brother of Baron François II.) And Humilie Aynard. He got the barony of Sassenage in 1399 because his uncle François II did not have any male heirs from his marriage to Alix de Châlon and he had appointed him as heir.

As a member of the council of King Charles VI. Henri le Roux was appointed governor of the Dauphiné on February 7, 1416 by the Dauphin Jean de Valois, duc de Touraine . He took his oath of service on June 7, 1417 in Grenoble . He reformed the coinage in the Dauphiné twice (August 1417 and April 1418) and by a royal declaration of June 5, 1418 received the exclusive right to choose the money changers.

When Louis II. De Poitiers , Count of Valentinois and Diois was put under pressure by his numerous creditors, he had tried in 1404 to sell his county to the crown for a lifelong usufruct. Since France also had difficulties raising the required amount, the inheritance had to be waited until 1419 before the county could be integrated into the Dauphiné. Henri II. De Sassenage, as executor, carried out the implementation of the inheritance and the payment of the associated compensation to the testamentary heirs of Louis de Poitiers.

Because of a vow that Henri le Roux had made a few years earlier, he asked in 1420 to be released from his governorship in order to be able to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem . After his return he fought alongside King Charles VII against the threat from the English; he fell on August 17, 1424 at the Battle of Verneuil at the head of the Dauphiné troops.

Marriage and famille

On August 10, 1411, Henri le Roux married Antonia di Saluzzo (Antoinette de Saluces, * around 1392), daughter of Ugo di Saluzzo (Hugues de Saluces), Seigneur de Montjay-Sanfront, and Marguerite des Baux, Dame de Suze . The wedding took place in Romans in the presence of Pietro d Saluzzo (Pierre de Saluces), Bishop of Mende , and Amadeo di Saluzzo (Amédée de Saluces), Cardinal and Camerlengo of the Avignon Papacy , Bishop of Valence and Die, two uncles of the bride . Antonia brought her mother's inheritance rights to Suze with her into the marriage. Your children are:

  • François III. de Sassenage († 1447), Baron de Sassenage, Seigneur de Pont, de Monteillez etc .; ∞ Philippe Alleman († 1478), daughter of Jacques Alleman, Seigneur de Champs
  • Marguerite de Sassenage († after 1471); ∞ Amblard de Beaumont, Seigneur de Montfort; as a widow she became mistress of the future King Louis XI.

Antonietta di Saluzzo married Louis de La Baume de Suze for the second time in 1426, which meant that the rights to Suze of the Sassenage family were lost again.

literature

  • Nicolas Chorier , Histoire généalogique de la maison de Sassenage ... , Lyon, Jean Thioly libraire, 1672, pp. 56-62.
  • Guy Allard, Les gouverneurs et les lieutenans au gouvernement de Dauphiné , Grenoble, Jean Verdier impr., 1704 (new edition H. Gariel, 1864, p. 173).
  • Louis Moréri , Le grand dictionnaire historique ... , Volume 2, 1732, p. 108

Remarks

  1. ↑ Detlev Schwennicke , European Family Tables , Volume 3.2, 1983, Plate 305
personal data
SURNAME Sassenage, Henri II. De
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baron de Sassenage
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French nobleman, governor of the Dauphiné
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH August 17, 1424
Place of death at Verneuil