Jean de Luxembourg
Johann Bastard of Luxembourg called Hennequin (Jean Bâtard de Luxembourg; * around 1400; † July 28, 1466 ) was lord of Haubourdin .
He was an illegitimate son of Walram III. , Count of Ligny and Saint-Pol , Connétable of France , and Agnès de Brie, and thus a cousin of Peter I of Luxembourg , Count of Saint-Pol and Brienne († 1433), Ludwig , Chancellor of France († 1443) , and John II of Luxembourg , Count of Ligny († 1441)
He was a member of the ducal council of Philip the Good , Duke of Burgundy , and later of the Great Council of Mechelen , the highest court in the Habsburg , later Spanish Netherlands . In 1433 he was made a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece . He was legitimized on February 19, 1436 (his father had been dead since 1415). From 1446 until his death he was Admiral of the Netherlands outside Flanders (Admiraal van de Nederlanden buiten Vlaanderen)
Johann married Jacqueline de La Trémoille , daughter of Pierre II. De La Trémoille, and widow of André de Toulongeon . The marriage remained childless.
literature
- Detlev Schwennicke, European Family Tables Volume I.2 (1999) Plate 232.
- 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. 75-77.
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| SURNAME | Jean de Luxembourg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Johann Bastard of Luxembourg; Hennequin; Jean Bâtard de Luxembourg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Herr von Haubourdin, Admiral of the Netherlands outside Flanders |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1400 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 28, 1466 |