Jean Louvet

Jean Louvet (* around 1370, † around 1440), known as Le Président de la Provence , was Seigneur de Thiais and for five years the most important advisor to the French King Charles VII.

The end of 1415 - he was the President of the Court in Aix-en-Provence - he went with his sovereign, Duke Ludwig II of Anjou. , Count of Provence and titular king of Naples to Paris, where he the household of Queen Isabeau led . After falling out with her, he joined her son, the Dauphin Dauphin Karl . He became one of the most important figures in the Armagnak party and - together with Tanneguy du Chastel , another member of Charles VII's party - was one of the perpetrators in the murder of Duke John Fearless of Burgundy on September 10, 1419.

After Charles' accession to the throne (1422), he was his most important advisor for five years. However, his greed made enemies for him, and he had to rely on the instigation of the king's mother-in-law, Jolanthe of Aragón (the wife of the Duke of Anjou), and her protégé Arthur de Richemont , who was appointed Constable in 1426 and gained decisive influence over the king to withdraw. He took over the post of captain of Avignon and played an influential role in his exile until his death.

Before 1425 his daughter Marie married Jean de Dunois , the illegitimate son of Louis de Valois, duc d'Orléans , and companion in arms Jeanne d'Arcs . She probably died in 1437.

literature

• Auguste Vallet de Viriville: Jean Louvet . In: Ferdinand Höfer : Nouvelle Biographie générale . Roskilde & Bagger, Copenhagen 1963/69 (reprint of the Paris edition 1852/66)
• Gaston Du Fresne de Beaucourt: Histoire de Charles VII. Sociète Bibliographique, Paris 1881/91 (6 vol.)