Jacques II. De Goÿon de Matignon

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Jacques II de Goÿon de Matignon

Jacques II. De Goÿon de Matignon (born September 26, 1525 in Lonrai ( Orne ), † July 27, 1598 at the Château de Lesparre ( Lesparre-Médoc )) was a French military and politician. He was Marshal of France , Lieutenant-General of Normandy, Governor of Guyenne and, as the successor of his friend Michel de Montaigne, Mayor of Bordeaux.

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He came from an old Breton and Norman noble family Goÿon , which later named itself after the seat of Goÿon de Matignon.

He was the son of Jacques I, Seigneur de La Roche-Goÿon, Baron de Thorigny (1497–1537) and his wife Anne de Silly, Dame de Lonray (approx. 1500–1551), daughter of François de Silly, Seigneur de Lonray.

On May 2, 1558 he married the widowed Françoise de Daillon du Lude († 1603), eldest daughter of John II of Daillon, Count du Lude, Governor of Poitou and Seneschal of Rouergue and Anne Batarnoy. He had five children Odet seigneur de Matignon, comte de Thorigny (1559–1595), Lancelot, seigneur de Lonray, Charles seigneur de Matignon, comte de Thorigny (1564–1648), Gillonne de Goÿon († 1641) and Anne de Goÿon.

In 1559, on the initiative of Caterina de 'Medici , her son Francis II made him lieutenant general of Basse-Normandie , lieutenance générale de la Basse-Normandie . Jacques de Goÿon joined the army as a young man. He fought under King Henry II .

When Henri von Valois later became Henry III. At the age of seventeen had become commander in chief of the royal troops in the Third Huguenot War, Jacques de Goÿon helped him in the victories in the Battle of Jarnac on March 13, 1569 and in the Battle of Moncontour on October 3, 1569.

Battle of Jarnac in north-west Poitiers . In the third Huguenot War (1568–1570) Jacques de Goÿon fought on the side of the Catholics

He made his military career debut with the conquest of the three bishoprics ( Metz , Toul and Verdun ). He was captured at the Battle of Saint-Quentin . Michel de Montaigne was also present for the siege of La Fère.

On May 27, 1574, Jacques de Goÿon arrested the jousting partner of Heinrich II. Captain Gabriel I. de Lorges, Count of Montgomery - the king had an accident on June 30, 1559 on the occasion of the celebration of the peace treaty with Habsburg ( Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis ) in a tournament - although Henry II himself absolved his captain of all guilt, Montgomery was persecuted by Heinrich's wife Caterina de 'Medici from now on.

In 1579 Heinrich III appointed him. to Marshal of France, maréchal de France . This function was originally a military deputy of the Crown General, connétable of the King of France. On December 21, 1579 he was accepted as a knight in the Order of the Holy Spirit , Ordre du Saint-Esprit .

Coat of arms of the House of Goÿon

Henry III. appointed him governor de Guyenne in 1584 . A short time later, Michel de Montaigne was appointed mayor of the city by the same king. He replaced Armand de Gontaut, seigneur de Biron . A period of excellent cooperation relaxed between the military de Goÿon and Montaigne.

literature

  • Jacques de Callières: Histoire du maréchal Jacques II de Matignon, governor et lieutenant general pour le roy en Guyenne. Avec tout ce qui s'est passé de plus memorable depuis la mort du roy François I iusq'à la fin des guerres civiles. Augustin Courbé, Paris 1661

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Family genealogy
  2. ↑ Biographical data of the ancestors
  3. ^ The family tree of the de Daillon family. 2011 Étienne Pattou
  4. ^ Jean Lacouture: Michel de Montaigne. A life between politics and philosophy. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-593-36025-X , p. 139 f.
personal data
SURNAME Goÿon de Matignon, Jacques II. De
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guyon de Matignon, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Marshal of France, military, mayor of Bordeaux
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1525
PLACE OF BIRTH Lonrai , Normandy , France
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1598
Place of death Château de Lesparre , Aquitaine , France