Jacques I. de Bourbon, comte de La Marche

Bust in the Battle Gallery of the Palace of Versailles

Coat of arms of Jacques de Bourbon

Jacques I. de Bourbon (German: Jakob von Bourbon , * probably 1319; † April 6, 1362 near Lyon ), also called "la Fleur des Chevaliers" (German: "the flower of the knights"), was count of La from 1342 Marche and from 1351 to 1360 Count von Ponthieu and from 1354 to 1356 Connétable of France .

Life

He was a son of Louis I , Duke of Bourbon and Count of La Marche, and his wife Marie d'Avesnes. After the death of his father, he inherited this as Count of La Marche in 1341, while his brother Pierre received the Duchy of Bourbon.

In 1341 and 1342 Jacques fought in the War of the Breton Succession with Charles de Blois against Jean de Montfort . In 1346 he took part in the Battle of Crécy , in which he was wounded. In the same year King John II gave him the Ponthieu . In 1349 he became captain general of the Languedoc . In 1354 he was appointed connétable of France, but in 1356, before the battle of Maupertuis , he was replaced again and by Gautier VI. de Brienne replaced. In this battle he was wounded again and - like King John II - was taken prisoner by the English. With the Treaty of Brétigny he was released again and lost the Ponthieu, which fell to England . He then fought against the dismissed mercenaries , who formed gangs called Grandes Compagnies and tried to make a living in the kingdom as muggers. During one of these fights, at the Battle of Brignais near Lyon, he and his eldest son were mortally wounded. Both were buried in the Saint-Jacques church in Lyon.

Marriage and offspring

Jacques I. de Bourbon was married to Jeanne de Châtillon, mistress of Condé and Carency (* 1320; † 1371) since 1335 . Their children together were:

• Isabelle (* 1340; † 1371) ⚭ (1) 1362 Louis II. De Brienne , Vice Count of Beaumont († 1364, killed in the Battle of Cocherel ); ⚭ (2) 1364 Bouchard VII. De Vendôme († 1371), Count of Vendôme and Castres
• Pierre (* 1342; † 1362), Count of La Marche
• Jean I (* 1344; † 1393), Count of La Marche and Vendôme
• Jacques I. (* 1346; † 1417), lord of Préaux , progenitor of the Bourbon-Préaux line

Through his son Jean, Jacques I de Bourbon is a direct ancestor of the French King Henry IV.

Web links

Commons : Jacques I. de Bourbon, comte de La Marche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information on Jacques I. de Bourbon, comte de La Marche in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
• Jacques de Clermont at fmg.ac

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jean Froissart : Chroniques de Froissart. Chapter CDLXV. In: Collection des Chroniques nationales francaises. Volume 4, Paris 1824, p. 129 ff.
2. ↑ Klaus Malettke: The Bourbons. Volume 1, W. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 3170205811 , p. 291

predecessor	Office	successor
Louis I. de Bourbon	Count of La Marche 1341-1362	Jean I.
French crown domain	Count of Ponthieu 1351-1360	English crown domain ( Edward III of England )
Charles de la Cerda	Connétable of France 1354–1356	Gautier VI. de Brienne