Jacques de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

Jacques de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (* around 1420, † April 25, 1472 ) was a French nobleman and military man; as Prévôt de Paris he pronounced the death sentence against François Villon at the end of 1462 .

biography

Jacques de Villiers was the eldest son of Jean de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam († 1437), Marshal of France , and Jeanne de Vallangoujard. On April 17, 1441 he paid homage to King Charles VII regarding the lordship of L'Isle-Adam . He was later royal councilor and chamberlain and seneschal of Boulogne.

On February 17, 1454 he took part as cupbearer of the Burgundian Duke Philip the Good in Lille at the Pheasant Festival ( Vœu du faisan ), which had been organized to symbolically initiate a new crusade after the fall of Constantinople the previous year. In 1458 he acquired the rule of La Grande-Nivelon.

On August 18, 1461 he took part in the coronation of Louis XI. in Reims and was appointed Prévôt de Paris on September 1 of the same year. In this office he passed the death sentence against François Villon at the end of 1462, which was overturned on January 5, 1463 by the parliament as an appeal instance. In 1463 he became captain of Gisors , in 1465 Ludwig XI. Charles d'Artois removed him from his office in Paris. On June 2, 1470 he acquired the rule of Nogent.

marriage and family

Jacques de Villiers married after August 20, 1445 Jeanne de Clermont-Nesle, daughter of Gui IV. De Nesle, Seigneur d'Offémont († 1473), and Jeanne de Saluces ( House of Clermont ). Your children were:

• Antoine († August 25, 1504), Seigneur de l'Isle-Adam, Châtelain de Nogent; ∞ (1) February 12, 1470 Marguerite de Montmorency († 1473), daughter of Charles de Montmorency, Seigneur de Goussainville et d ' Avremesnil , and Jeanne Rataut; ∞ (2) November 6, 1480 Agnès du Moulin († October 1517), daughter of Jean du Moulin, Seigneur de Fontenay-en-Brie et de Messy , Maître ordinaire de l'Hôtel du Roi, and Marguerite de Rouvroy de Saint- Simon
• Louis († August 24, 1521), 1480 Dean of the Church of Orléans, elected Bishop of Beauvais in 1497 , Pair de France
• Adrien, Maître d'Hôtel du Roi with Charles VIII.
• Philippe (1464 - August 21, 1534), 1521 Grand Master of the Order of Malta
• Gui († June 23, 1536), elected Abbot of Saint-Martin de Pontoise in 1494 , resigned and was elected Abbot of Saint-Germer in 1502
• Valéran (X 1488), 1483 Seigneur de Vallangoujard
• Tristan, attested in 1481
• Marie; ∞ (1) Louis de Soyécourt, Seigneur de Moy et de Romaux, widower of Blanche de Nesle; ∞ (2) 1460 Gui Pot († 1510), Comte de Saint-Pol , Seigneur de La Rochepot et de La Prune, Bailli de Vermandois - her daughter Anne Pot († 24 February 1510), Comtesse de Saint-Pol, lady de Damville, married Guillaume de Montmorency on July 17, 1484; their son is the Connétable Anne de Montmorency
• Anne; ∞ Louis, Seigneur de Téligny
• Gabrielle (* 1486); ∞ Philippe Lhuillier, Baron de Cailly, Seigneur de Manicamp , captain and governor of the Bastille , son of Jean II. Lhuillier and Jeanne de Vitry
• Ambroise († December 20, 1503), Seigneur de Vallangoujard, Capitaine de Pontoise; ∞ Françoise d'Azincourt, daughter of Adrien d'Azincourt and Yolande de Longueval

Jeanne de Clermont-Nesle died on December 6, 1462, Jacques de Villiers on April 25, 1472; both were buried in the monastery Le Val .

literature

• Louis Moréri , Le grand dictionnaire historique , Volume 8, 1749, p. 292

Web link

• Étienne Pattou, Familles de L'Isle-Adam, de Villiers, & de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam , pp. 15–17 ( online , accessed May 17, 2020)
• Association Les Amis de L'Isle Adam, Jacques de Villiers de L'isle-Adam ( online , accessed May 18, 2020)

Remarks

1. ↑ Pattou and Moréri