Jean Blosset
Jean (IV.) Blosset († November 26, 1587 ) was a French nobleman and military man. He was Seigneur de Torcy et du Plessis-Pâté , as well as Governor of Paris and Île-de-France .
Life
Jean (IV.) Blosset was the son of Jean (III.) Blosset, Seigneur de Torcy, Beaumont etc., Baron du Plessis-Pâté, and Anne de Cugnac de Dampierre. He embarked on a military career and made it to the captain of 50 orderlies .
During the Second Huguenot War, the Protestants set up their field camp at Saint-Denis in the fall of 1567 and began a six-week siege of Paris, during which they blocked all food transports in order to starve the city. During an expedition of the besieged on November 4th against the pontoons of the besiegers across the Seine, the royal troops were able to take over several of these enemy posts. The most important officers were Léonor d'Orléans, duc de Longueville , Guillaume de Montmorency, seigneur de Thoré , Timoléon de Cossé, comte de Brissac and Jean Blosset de Torcy, who commanded 1,500 well-equipped horsemen and 3,000 foot soldiers. The siege ended with the battle of Saint-Denis on November 10, 1567, in which the Connétable Anne de Montmorency was so badly wounded that he died two days later.
On October 23, 1572 he was appointed deputy to François de Montmorency as governor of Paris and Île-de-France and was apparently still in March 1577. On December 21, 1578 he was made Chevalier de l ' Ordre du Saint- Esprit appointed, the admission took place on December 31st, so he is one of the founding members of the order.
When the Turkish Sultan Murad III. An invitation expressed that France could take part in the circumcision of his eldest son through an ambassador , Jean Blosset took the opportunity to travel to Constantinople and from there to bring Greek manuscripts to France.
Jean Blosset died on November 26, 1587.
Marriage and inheritance
He was married to Marie de Riants, daughter of Denis de Riants, Seigneur de Villeroy au Perche, Conseiller du Roi and Président à Mortier du Parlement de Paris, and Gabrielle Sapin, but had no descendants.
His heiress was his sister Claude, Dame de Torcy, Beaumont, Le Plessis-Pâté etc; ∞ April 4, 1553 Louis III. de Montberon, Seigneur de Fontaines-Chalandray, son of Louis II. de Montberon, Seigneur de Fontaines-Chalandray, and Louise de Beaumont
His sister Françoise had an illegitimate son with François d'Orléans-Longueville (1513-1548), Marquis de Rothelin (the father of Léonor d'Orléans-Longueville); their descendants form the branch line Orléans-Rothelin of the house Orléans-Longueville ; In 1530 she married Jean de Bricqueville, Seigneur de Coulombières, son of Guillaume Sire de Bricqueville, and Jeanne Havart.
literature
- François-Alexandre Aubert de La Chenaye-Desbois , Dictionnaire de la noblesse , 2nd edition, Volume 2, Paris, 1771, p. 563.
Remarks
- ↑ Jacques-Auguste de Thou , Histoire universelle , Volume 4, 1567–1573, Den Haag 1740, p. 19
- ↑ Œuvres complètes de M. Germain de Saint-Foix , Paris, chez la veuve Duchesne, 1778
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Blosset, Jean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Blosset, Jean IV .; Seigneur de Torcy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French nobleman, governor of Paris |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 16th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1587 |