Hugues de la Roche

Hugues de la Roche († 1398), called le chevalier sans pareil (the unreached knight), Marshal of the Papal Court and Rector of the Comtat Venaissin .

Life

Hugues de la Roche was the son of Géraud, Seigneur de la Roche, today La Roche-Canillac .

The rector of the Comtat Venaissin

Shortly after the election of Clement VI. as Pope (1342) Hugues de la Roche left the Limousin and went to Avignon. He was immediately introduced into the Pope's entourage, and so well known that in 1343 he married Delphine Roger de Beaufort, a daughter of Guillaume II. Roger and Marie Chambon, and niece of the Pope, who married him on September 10, 1344 appointed Rector of the Comtat.

The couple had a daughter, also called Delphine, who married Elzéar, Vice Count of Uzès (1361-1390), who his contemporaries regarded as "the flower of French chivalry". However, the rector's wife died of the plague in 1348 .

A year later he married Isabeau de Maumont. She brought him Tournoël Castle in Auvergne and Châteauneuf-sur-Sioule as a dowry.

The Marshal of the Papal Court

He was appointed Marshal of the Papal Court and was often procurerur (authorized representative) of the Viscount and the Viscountess de Turenne. This was the case for Aliénor de Comminges on March 16, 1350, when he accompanied Bertrand de Cosnac, Bishop of Lombez , to Perpignan to settle the final details of their marriage.

Likewise on January 26, 1352, when Guillaume III. Roger de Beaufort gave him and his (Guillaume's) cousin Aymar d'Aigrefeuille a power of attorney to take possession of the town and barony of Pertuis and other places, combined with the power to confirm the privileges granted to the inhabitants, to appoint officials and to pay homage and to receive the oath of allegiance "

Special envoy of the Pope to the Visconti

After he was in 1353 by Innocent VI. when rector of the Comtat had been dismissed, Hugues de la Roche and his wife settled in the Auvergne , where he was busy in the course of 1367 to have the donjon and the walls of Tournoël ready.

He took his place in Avignon under the pontificate of Gregory XI. back on. On October 12, 1372, the pontiff who sent him to the Maître de l'Hôtel , d. H. Majordomo of the papal household, with the title of advisor to Lombardy , to meet with Raimond de Turenne and Nicolas Roger de Beaufort , who were at war against the Visconti family .

During the month of February [1373], when the Pope asked for the Visconti to appear in Avignon, Gian Galeazzo Visconti , Count of Vertus , wanted to appeal to the Pope in the matter of his father Galeazzo II Visconti . He traveled to Avignon accompanied by Raimond de Turenne, Hugues de la Roche and Amanieu de Pomiers, captain of the cardinal legate Pierre d'Estaing . When they returned to Lombardy on March 21, Hugues and Amanieu officially informed Bernabò Visconti that neither he nor his brother could hope for papal leniency.

The second trip to Italy

Hugues de la Roche was a participant in that military convoy that Gregory XI. accompanied on his return to Rome. It was he who - accompanied by his nephew Raimond de Turenne and Guy de Pruynes, Seneschal of Beaucaire - escorted the Pope to his residence in Anagni in July 1377 .

A year later, in May 1378, he and his son Gérald defended the Castel Sant'Angelo that Raimond de Turenne had entrusted to him: they were able to defend the castle for fourteen months.

The campaign to Bourbourg

The Western Schism revived the Hundred Years' War in the county of Flanders on the religious level , so that King Charles VI. of France appealed to all its barons to join his fight against Flemish and English supporters of Urbans VI. to help.

At the beginning of September 1383 Hugues de la Roche belonged to the retinue of Roger de Beaufort, who took Bourbourg . He was accompanied by Raimond de Turenne, Guillaume III. Roger de Beaufort, Marquis de Canillac, Guérin d'Apcher and Louis II of Poitiers-Valentinois. He was demobilized on September 22nd, the day of the cassement général . He retired to Limousin, where he died in 1398.

literature

• Charles Cottier, Notes historiques concernant les Recteurs du ci-devant Comté Venaissin , Carpentras, 1808
• JF André, Histoire du gouvernement des Recteurs dans le Comtat , Carpentras, 1847.
• Claude Faure, Études sur l'administration et l'histoire du Comtat Venaissin du XIIIe au XIVe siècle (1229 - 1417) , Paris-Avignon, 1909.
• 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.

Remarks

1. ↑ La Roche, a barony since the 12th century, belonged to a large extent to the vice-county of Turenne and partly to the diocese of Tulle . It extended over 16 parishes, including La Chapelle-aux-Plas, Gimel, Saint-Bazille, Saint-Avid, La Rochette, Lestranges, Chaunac, le Breuil-Pébeyre, Beaufort and Le Chazal.
2. ↑ Guillaume II. Roger married in 1345 Guérine de Canillac, heir to the Marquis, Seigneur de Canillac and thus a "neighbor" of Hugues
3. ↑ From this marriage he had three sons: Jean, 1377 prisoner of Archambaud de Grailly , Captal de Buch , who in 1384 by Guillaume III. Roger de Beaufort was ransomed; Gérald, Commander of Brindisi , Treasurer of Guillaume de Lestranges, Archbishop of Rouen , and Abbot of Valmont ; Pierre, knight of the Order of St. John and procurerur (public prosecutor) of his father.
4. ^ Hugues de la Roche was accompanied by Giovanni Fieschi, Bishop of Vercelli , Guillaume Lodart, Bishop of Lucca , Béranger, Abbot of Lézat , and John of Siena, adviser to the Apostolic Chamber .
5. ↑ Cf. P. Ronzy, Le voyage de Grégoire XI ramenant la papauté d'Avignon à Rome (1376-1377), suivi du texte latin et de la traduction française de l'Itenerarium Gregorii XI de Pierre Amielh , Publications de l'Institut français de Florence, 1952.