Jean I. Le Maingre

Jean I. Le Maingre called Boucicaut (also: Le Meingre , * around 1310; † March 15, 1367 in Dijon ) was Marshal of France from 1356 .

Life

Origin and beginnings

Jean Le Maingre came from Touraine , where he was born around 1310. His parents are not known, only his brother Geoffroi Le Maingre († 1370), who was in the church service (and therefore probably younger than him) and who in 1363 became Bishop and Duke of Laon and thereby Pair de France .

In 1337 he served in Gascony , 1338 and 1340 under the Connétable of France Raoul I de Brienne in Flanders and Hainaut . In September 1340 he fought with the army in Bouvines .

On September 2, 1345 he accompanied Humbert II Dauphin von Viennois when he left Marseille for the Crusade from Smyrna . In the summer of 1349 he was captured by the Anglo-Gascon military at the Battle of Lunalonge (probably near Limalonges ).

In 1351 and 1352 he fought again in Gascony, now under the command of Amaury VII, Sire de Craon. On May 30, 1354 he became Seneschal of Toulouse . In September 1355 he led negotiations with the English in Picardy together with Guillaume de Craon and Guillaume de Melun, the Archbishop of Sens .

Marshal of France

With the nickname Boucicaut ("the brave") he received in 1356 the dignity of Marshal of France as successor to Jean de Clermont . On May 22, 1358, the Dauphin Karl appointed him together with Guillaume VII, Sire de Parthenay, lieutenant general of the Poitou , the Touraine and the Saintonge in a letter issued in Meaux . During this time he was also the captain of Lusignan Castle .

In April 1360 Jean Le Maingre defended the besieged Paris with six knights, 36 squires and 18 archers. He was together with Charles Sire de Montmorency French envoy to the Treaty of Brétigny between France and England, which was concluded on May 8, 1360 and ratified on October 24, 1360 in Calais . On November 4, 1360 he was appointed a member of the Grand Conseil .

On January 8, 1362, he watched helplessly as the city of Cahors was handed over to John Chandos , the lieutenant of the King of England. In May of the same year he was appointed Commissioner for the Implementation of the Peace of Brétigny. Also in 1362 he accompanied the Dauphin Karl on his departure to Avignon .

In 1364 Jean Le Maingre took the cities of Mantes and Meulan from Charles II , King of Navarre . He took part in the campaign against the Grandes Compagnies and replaced Bertrand du Guesclin as troop commander in Normandy.

He died on March 15, 1367 in Dijon and was buried behind the choir of the Saint-Martin de Tours church .

family

He was lord of the castle La Roche Bellusson in Mérigny , the castle La Bourdaisière , perhaps also of Azay-le-Rideau . He married Fleury de Linières, Dame d'Etableau, de Bridoré et de La Brétinière, daughter of Godemar I. de Linières and Marguerite de Pressigny. From this marriage he had three sons:

• Jean II. Le Maingre dit Boucicaut (1365-1421), Marshal of France; ∞ Antoinette de Beaufort , Viscountess de Turenne , daughter of Raimond-Louis Roger de Beaufort , Viscount de Turenne, and Marie d'Auvergne, dite de Boulogne
• Geoffroi Le Maingre dit Boucicaut (around 1368–1429), Seigneur de Bridoré etc., governor of the Dauphiné ; ∞ (1) Costanza di Saluzzo, daughter of Thomas II , Margrave of Saluzzo , and Ricciarda Visconti , widow of Jean III, Comte de Sancerre ; ∞ (2) Isabeau de Poitiers-Saint-Vallier, daughter of Louis, Seigneur de Saint-Vallier ( Poitiers-Valentinois house )
• Oudart Le Maingre, attested in 1397

literature

• Denis Lalande, Un tourangeau méconnu, Jean Ier le Meingre, dit Boucicaut (vers 1310-1368) , in: Bulletin de la Société archéologique de Touraine , Volume 42, 1988, pp. 177-200

Web link

• Etienne Pattou, Famille Le Meingre dite (de) «Boucicaut» alias Boucicault ( online, accessed July 15, 2019 )