Jean Damas
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Jean Damas (* after 1423; † between October 5 and December 31, 1481 ), Seigneur von Digoine, Clessy and Saint-Amour was a Burgundian court official and military. In 1468 he was accepted into the Order of the Golden Fleece .
family
Jean Damas was the son of Robert Damas, Sire de Digoine et de Clessy, and Catherine de La Guiche (see La Guiche (noble family) ). In 1464 he married Claudine de Saint-Amour, widow of Jean de Toulongeon († 1463, Baron de Sennecey, nephew of Antoine de Toulongeon and André de Toulongeon , see Toulongeon (noble family) ), daughter of Claude de Saint-Amour and Marguerite de Tournon ; the couple had seven children.
Life
Jean Damas was already counselor and chamberlain to Duke Philip of Burgundy when he held the baptized person over the baptismal font when Philip of Savoy , who later became Duke of Savoy, was baptized in 1443 in his deputy . In 1465 he was knighted and on January 20, 1467 appointed governor and bailiff of Mâcon .
He was elected to the 11th chapter of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Bruges on May 14, 1468 as a substitute candidate in the event that Louis de Luxembourg would again refuse membership in the order; But when Jacques de Bourbon , who was regularly elected on May 14th, died on May 22nd, Jean Damas replaced him and was accepted into the order on May 28th. His place as a substitute candidate for Louis de Luxembourg (and then also as a successor when Louise de Luxembourg refused) was taken by the aforementioned Philip of Savoy.
In 1475 he was supposed to command a Burgundian army in the Tonnerois , but after the defeat of Montreuillon was charged with defending the Charolais and the Mâconnais against the French for the period from August to September 1475 . In April 1476, the Duke sent him to Provence to prevent Count René from dealing with the French King Louis XI. allied and delivered Provence to this. After the death of Charles the Bold (1477), Jean Damas himself defected to the French and handed over to Louis XI. das Mâconnais - he then retained his title of Bailli, was appointed Governor General of the Mâconnais and Royal Chamberlain and was awarded a pension. As a consequence, he was excluded from the Order of the Golden Fleece on the Chapter of 1481 by Archduke Maximilian of Austria . He died in the fall of that year after making his will on October 5th.
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literature
- Raphael de Smedt (ed.): Les chevaliers de l'ordre de la Toison d'or au XVe siècle. Notices bio-bibliographiques. (Kieler Werkstücke, D 3) 2nd, improved edition, Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-631-36017-7 , p. 155 f., No. 65.
Remarks
- ↑ Château de Digoine in Palinges
- ↑ Sonja Dünnebeil (Ed.): The protocol books of the Order of the Golden Fleece, Vol. 2: The festival in 1468 under Duke Karl the Bold, (Instrumenta 12) Ostfildern 2003 ( ISBN 3-7995-7912-5 ), p. 142.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Damas, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Burgundian court official and military |
| DATE OF BIRTH | after 1423 |
| DATE OF DEATH | between October 5, 1481 and December 31, 1481 |