Jean II. De Neufchâtel

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Jean II. De Neufchâtel in the Order's book of statutes (The Hague, KB, 76 E 10, fol.64v)

Jean II. De Neufchâtel (* late 1417 / early 1418; † June / September 1489 in Vuillafans ) was a Burgundian and French military and diplomat .

Life

Jean II. De Neufchâtel was the second son of Thiébaut VIII. De Neufchâtel , Seigneur de Neufchâtel et de Châtel-sur-Moselle , and Agnès de Montfaucon, and the younger brother of Thiébaut IX. de Neufchâtel or great-nephew of Jean I. de Neufchâtel . He was

In the service of the Duke of Burgundy, Jean II. De Neufchâtel was from 1442 in the fight against the Écorcheurs ; in November he accompanied his father to the negotiations in Besançon on the succession in the Duchy of Luxembourg between the Duke and Emperor Sigismund .

On the night of November 22nd to 23rd, 1443, his soldiers surprisingly invaded Luxembourg , occupied the city and then handed it over to the Duke of Burgundy.

In 1444 he was in command of 500 Picard archers in Burgundy.

From 1445 to 1447 Thiebaut IX. Negotiator with Albrecht VI. of Austria and Wilhelm von Hachberg to enfeoff the Duke in the Netherlands and the county of Burgundy by the Emperor (Treaty of Bruges of May 18, 1447).

On April 30, 1451 he was accepted into the Order of the Golden Fleece .

During the Ghent uprising on April 4, 1452, he was part of the Duke's bodyguard at the Battle of Geraardsbergen; on April 28th he achieved the lifting of the blockade of Oudenaarde , on June 9th he fought in the Battle of Bazel and on June 11th in the Battle of Rupelmonde. Between June 25 and 30 he conquered Schendelbeke and from July 16 to 23 he took part in the siege of Gavere . On July 31st he was present at the submission of Ghent.

In September 1456 he escorted the fugitive Dauphin from the Jura to Namur , the following summer he organized the escape of Charlotte of Savoy , the Dauphin's wife, also to Namur.

In 1460 he became First Chamberlain, the “Second Chamber” responsible for the second half of the year. During the campaign against Liège in the same year he took part in the conquest of Dinant on August 25, 1460 and witnessed the surrender of Liège on September 8.

In the war of the Ligue du Bien public in 1465 he drove the French out of the Bourbonnais and conquered Moulins . In 1468 he was the Deputy Lieutenant (Lieutenant) of the Governor Philippe de Bresse and the actual commander-in-chief of the Burgundian army, as Philippe did not take up his office. In 1469 he was with Pierre de Bauffremont envoy to King Louis XI, and later to Duke Francis II of Brittany .

On September 3, 1470 he became lieutenant general of the Duke in Burgundy. In November he commanded 5,000 soldiers to fight highwaymen in Alsace . On May 26, 1471, he led 800 lancers from Burgundy to the Netherlands to join the duke's army. On February 18, 1472 he was replaced as lieutenant general by Antoine de Luxembourg, comte de Roussy . On March 2, 1476 he fought in the Battle of Grandson , but not on June 22, 1476 in the Battle of Murten due to illness .

After the death of Charles the Bold in 1477, he still took part in the chapter of the Order of May 1478, but then on July 22, 1478 he performed the French King Louis XI the feudal oath, which appointed him councilor and chamberlain on October 21, 1479, and later that year governor of the County of Corbeil . On April 7, 1480 he received the county of Joigny and the lordship of Vitteaux , which had been taken from Charles de Chalon. His son Jean iII. was to marry the heiress Charlotte de Chalon, who was already connected to Adrien de St. Maure by a marriage contract - Louis XI. even had the bride and her mother locked up in Corbeil , but was unsuccessful because Charlotte married St. Maure on October 9, 1480.

After changing sides, Jean II. De Neufchâtel was excluded from the Order of the Golden Fleece on May 5, 1481 - but was accepted into the French counterpart, the Order of Michael , in October 1484 . In 1486 he retired to Vuillafans, on June 29, 1489 he appeared for the last time and died on September 28. He was buried in the Jacobin Convent in Besançon.

family

Jean II. De Neufchâtel married on November 20, 1437 in Hesdin Margarida de Castro, 1437 Dame de Saint-Aubin, † between late 1475 and November 19, 1479, buried in the monastery church Notre-Dame la Blanche in Faverney , daughter of Fernando de Castro, Senhor de Ançã , Monsanto i de Bogilobo, Portuguese court marshal, and Mecia de Sousa. Your children were:

  • Philippe, * probably 1438, † 1488, Seigneur de Fontenoy, 1482 Viscount de Lunel ; ∞ Katharina von Baden-Hachberg, * 1450, † 1498, daughter of Rudolf IV. , Margrave of Rötteln, Count of Neuchâtel , and Marguerite de Vienne
  • Charles, † 1498, 1463–1489 Archbishop of Besançon , 1480–1489 Commendatar Bishop of Bayeux , 1489 President of the Burgundian Estates.
  • Isabeau, * probably 1442/43, † 1479, ∞ Louis de Vienne, Seigneur de Ruffey, † 1483/86
  • Isabelle, † 1471; ∞ Philibert Philippe de La Palud, Comte de La Roche, † 1473
  • Jeanne, * probably 1449, † 1475; ∞ Wilhelm I, Lord of Rappoltstein , † 1507
  • Marguerite, * 1451, † 1476, 1458 nun in Sainte-Waudru (Mons)
  • Fernand (o), * probably 1452, † 1522, Seigneur de Marnay etc .; ∞ I Magdalena von Vinstingen († 1496), ∞ II Claude de Vergy († 1512); ∞ III Etiennette de la Baume, daughter of Marc, 5th Comte de Montrevel († 1521) ( La Baume-Montrevel )
  • Jean III, † 1510, Seigneur de Saint-Aubin etc .; ∞ Catherine de Rougemont, † 1499
  • Avoye, * probably 1465, † 1493; ∞ Hélyon ​​(Louis) de Grandson, Seigneur de Lamarche-sur-Saône, † 1505

In addition, he had two daughters out of wedlock, Estevenette and Jeanne, who are attested in 1489.

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 , pp. 120–125, no. 52.
  • Detlev Schwennicke : European Family Tables Volume XI. (1986), plate 138 f.

Web links

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Montaigu Castle (now in ruins) east of Colombier (Haute-Saône)
  2. ↑ merged with Vuillafans-le-Neuf to form Vuillafans at the beginning of the 15th century
  3. ^ Wife of Louis de Chalon , Prince d'Orange
  4. ↑ at de Smedt † before August 1479
  5. ↑ a descendant of King Alfons III. from Portugal
  6. ↑ in de Smedt † 1485
personal data
SURNAME Jean II. De Neufchâtel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French military and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH around 1417
DATE OF DEATH around June 1489
Place of death Vuilla fans