Jean I de Bourbon, comte de La Marche

Jean and Catherine

Jean I. de Bourbon (* 1344 ; † June 11, 1393 ) was from 1362 to 1393 as Jean I Count of La Marche , from 1372 to 1393 as Jean VII. Count of Vendôme and Castres and Peer of France . He was a son of Jacques' I de Bourbon and his wife Jeanne de Châtillon .

He married Catherine de Vendôme († 1412) in 1364 , who inherited the counties of Vendôme and Castres in 1372 at the latest. He had the following children with her:

• Jacques II (1370–1438), Count of La Marche, Count of Castres
• Louis I (1376–1446), Count of Vendôme
• Jean, lord of Carency
• Anne (around 1380–1408) ⚭ 1) Jean de Valois, duc de Berry , Count of Montpensier ; ⚭ 2) Ludwig VII. Of Bavaria-Ingolstadt ,
• Marie
• Charlotte ⚭ Janus de Lusignan , King of Cyprus .

Jean de Bourbon fought in 1356 in the Battle of Maupertuis , in which he was captured. After his release he joined Bertrand du Guesclin , with whom he supported Henry of Trastamara against King Peter the Cruel in Castile in 1366 . In the Vendômois he had the castles Vendôme and Lavardin rebuilt.

literature

• Dominique Barthélémy: La société dans le Comté de Vendôme. De l'An Mil from XIVème siècle. Fayard, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-213-03071-5 .
• Jean-Claude Pasquier: Le Château de Vendôme. Une Histoire douce-amère. Éditions du Cherche-Lune, Vendôme 2000, ISBN 2-904-736-18-2 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Jacques I.	Count of La Marche 1362-1393	Jacques II
Jeanne de Vendome	Count of Castres (de iure uxoris ) 1372–1393	Jacques II
Jeanne de Vendome	Count of Vendôme (de iure uxoris ) 1372-1393	Louis I.