Jacques de Lalaing

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Jacques de Lalaing in the Order's book of statutes (The Hague, KG, 76 E 10, fol.64r)

Jacques de Lalaing , called le bon chevalier (* 1421 ; † July 3, 1453 in Poeke ), was one of the most famous tournament fighters in the second quarter of the 15th century. In 1451 he was accepted into the Order of the Golden Fleece .

Life

Jacques Lalaing was the eldest son of Guillaume de Lalaing, Seigneur de Lallaing , and Jeanne de Créquy, Dame de Bugnicourt , and thus the nephew of Simon de Lalaing . Initially he was in the service of the Duke of Cleves , later in the service of Philip the Good , Duke of Burgundy. Around 1440 he was one of the most important tournament knights. He was so well known that a biography was written about him shortly after his death.

In 1451 Jacques de Lalaing was accepted into the Order of the Golden Fleece after a tournament in Ghent ; Together with Jean Le Fèvre de Saint-Remy as king of the coat of arms and the knight Jean II. de Croÿ he traveled to Sicily to bring the chain of the order to Iñigo de Guevara and Pedro de Cardona, who were accepted with him .

Then Duke Philip put him in the suppression of the Ghent uprising (1449-1453). He took part in the siege of Oudenaarde and the battle of Lokeren (1453). He was killed during the bombardment of Poeke's fort. He was the first European nobleman to be killed by a gunshot.

Jacques de Lalaing was buried in Lallaing Church. Up until the Revolution there was a gisant with the epitaph in the Chapelle Notre-Dame : Chy gist le bon chevalier messire Jacques de Lallaing, aisné filz de hault et noble monsieur Guille, seigneur de Lallaing, quy trepassa au siege devant Poucques le III joura du mois de juillet de l'an mil CCCC et LIII .

Trivia

The permanent representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the EU is based in 8-14, rue Jacques de Lalaing, 1040 Bruxelles.

Works

  • Le livre des faits de Jacques de Lalaing, ed. by JAC Buchon, Collection des chroniques et mémoires sur l'histoire de la France, Paris, 1839, volume 9.
  • Le livre des faits du bon chevalier messire Jacques de Lalaing, in: Georges Chastellain , Œuvres, ed. by Joseph MBC Kervyn de Lettenhove, Brussels, Heussner, 1863–1866, 8 volumes, here volume 8, pp. 188–246. (The attribution of the Chronicle to Chastelain is doubted today).
  • Paul Rudnitzki: The tournament novel Livre des faits du bon chevalier Messire Jacques de Lalaing in the Anholter manuscript, together with an excursus about the author, Münster, Aschendorffscher Verlag (Forschungen und Funde, 4, 1), 1915, 26 pp. + 21 pl.

literature

  • Detlev Schwennicke : European Family Tables Volume XXVIII (2011), Plate 56
  • Raphael de Smedt (ed.): Les chevaliers de l'ordre de la Toison d'or au XVe siècle. Notices bio-bibliographiques. (Kieler Werkstück, D 3) 2nd, improved edition, Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-631-36017-7 , No. 51 (in French, with extensive literature references).

Web links

Commons : Jacques de Lalaing  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • S. Matthew Galas, The Deeds of Jacques de Lalaing - Feats of Arms a 15th Century Knight, [1]

Remarks

  1. ↑ Aimé Leroy, Arthur Dinaux , Les Hommes et les Choses du Nord de la France et du Midi de la Belgique, Valenciennes, Archives du Nord, p. 445.
  2. ↑ Laffont, Bompiani, Le Nouveau Dictionnaire des auteurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays, "Bouquins" collection, Bompiani, Laffont, 1994, Volume I, p. 646. Kenneth Urwin, Georges Chastelain: la vie, les œuvres, Slatkine, 1975, pp. 85f.
personal data
SURNAME Lalaing, Jacques de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Servant of the Dukes of Burgundy and tournament knights
DATE OF BIRTH 1421
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 1453
Place of death Poeke