Jean de Poitiers

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Jean de Poitiers ( 1475 - August 26, 1539 ) was Seigneur de Saint-Vallier , Viscount d'Estoile, governor and Grand-Sénéchal de Provence in 1514 . He was the father of Diane de Poitiers , the mistress of King Henry II.

Life

Jean de Poitiers was the son of Aymar de Poitiers († after 1510), Seigneur de Saint-Vallier etc., Marchese di Crotone , 1484/92 governor and Grand-Sénéchal de Provence, and Jeanne de La Tour dite de Boulogne ( House La Tour d'Auvergne ). In 1514 he was himself governor and grand seneschal of Provence. In the same year his daughter married Diane Louis de Brézé , Comte de Maulévrier .

In 1523, Louis de Brézé revealed to King Francis I the Conspiracy of the Connétable de Bourbon , not knowing that Jean de Poitiers was involved. Jean was then accused of high treason in 1524 and sentenced to death, in 1526 - already standing on the scaffold - he was pardoned by Francis I, with his son-in-law Louis de Brézé given as the reason. The confiscation of his property was lifted. He himself died on August 26, 1539 under house arrest in the fortress of Loches .

Marriages and offspring

He married Jeanne de Batarnay, daughter of Imbert de Batarnay, Seigneur de Bouchage, and Georgette de Montchenu with a marriage contract of March 4, 1489. From this marriage his children come:

  • Philibert de Poitiers, † young
  • Guillaume de Poitiers, † after 1547, Comte d'Albon , Viscount de l'Étoile, French lieutenant-general of Dauphiné and Savoy, buried in Saint-Vallier; ⚭ 1523/26 Claudine de Miolans, † Chambéry 1579, Dame de Miolans, daughter of Louis, Baron de Miolans, Comte de Montmayeur
  • Diane de Poitiers (* between September 1499 and January 1500; † April 22 or 26, 1566 Castle Anet ), 1548 Duchesse de Valentinois, 1553 Duchesse d'Étampes , mistress of King Henry II ; ⚭ (marriage contract March 29, 1514) Louis de Brézé , Comte de Maulévrier , † 1532 ( House of Brézé )
  • Anne de Poitiers, † 1539/46; ⚭ 1516 Antoine II., Baron de Clermont-en-Viennois, † 1530
  • Françoise de Poitiers, † after March 19, 1546; ⚭ April 13, 1532 Antoine III. de Clermont, Comte de Clermont (-en-Viennois), 1553 Grand-maître de forêts de France, † shortly after April 12, 1578

His second marriage was on June 8, 1516, Françoise de Chabannes, † June 19, 1517, daughter of Jean, Seigneur de Vandenesse, and Claude Le Viste, widow of Louis, Baron de Miolans, Comte de Montmayeur. In his third marriage he married Françoise de Polignac on September 26, 1532, † after 1559, daughter of Guillaume Armand, Vicomte de Polignac, widow of Jean de Gramont, Baron de Gramont, and Jean d'Albaron, Seigneur de Lévins-sur -Rhône ( House of Chalencon ) These marriages had no offspring.

Jean de Poitiers signed his will on August 24, 1539 at Pizançon Castle and died two days later. He was buried in Pizançon. Françoise de Chabannes married Jean de La Baume-Montrevel in their fourth marriage in 1542 and Jean de Lugny in their fifth marriage, † probably in 1557

Le roi s'amuse and Rigoletto

The story of Jean de Poitier served as the inspiration for a character in his Le roi s'amuse of 1832 Victor Hugo who became Count Monterone when Francesco Maria Piave and Giuseppe Verdi moved the plot of their opera Rigoletto from France to the Duchy of Mantua .

literature

Web links

  • Étienne Pattou, Maison de Poitiers, Comtes de Valentinois et Seigneurs de Saint-Vallier, 2017, p. 9 ( online )

Remarks

  1. ↑ Pattou
  2. ↑ Guiffrey, Schwennicke
  3. ↑ Pattou; after Schwennicke he died in the same year
  4. ↑ Carter, p. 163
personal data
SURNAME Poitiers, Jean de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seigneur de Saint-Vallier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French nobleman, Grand Seneschal of Provence
DATE OF BIRTH 1475
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1539