Jacques de Châtillon

Jacques de Châtillon († July 11, 1302 in the Battle of Spurs ) was Lord of Leuze , Condé , Carency , Buquoy and Aubigny , as well as Governor of Flanders . He was the son of Guy II. De Châtillon , Count of Saint-Pol from the House of Châtillon , and Mathilde of Brabant .

King Philip IV of France made him, an uncle of his wife Joan I of Navarre , governor of the country in 1300 as part of his attempts to annex Flanders, after Guido von Dampierre , Count of Flanders , and his two sons from the French had been imprisoned.

Jacques recklessness, the behavior of his officials and Philip's provocative visit to Bruges in May 1301 turned the city's population against the French. In the early hours of May 18, 1302, rebellious residents broke into the houses in which the French soldiers were quartered and killed everyone they could get hold of. Only Jacques de Châtillon and a few others managed to escape. This Bruges early mass led directly to the Spore Battle on July 11, 1302, in which Jacques de Châtillon was killed.

family

Jacques de Châtillon was married to Catherine de Carency, Dame de Buquoy, Duisant et d'Aubigny, widow of Renaud de Culant. Your children were:

• Hugues, † 1329, Seigneur de Leuze, Condé, Carency, Buquoy, Duisant et d'Aubigny; ⚭ Jeanne de Dargies
• Guy, Seigneur de Blais et de la Bastie; ⚭ Jolande de Chimay
• Béatrix, ⚭ 1315 Johann von Flandern, zu Nevele and Dendermonde, X 1325
• Isabeau, † after 1348; ⚭ 1311 Guillaume de Coucy, † 1335
• Daughter, abbess of Bruyère

literature

• Detlev Schwennicke: European family tables Volume VII (1979) panels 17-23