Jean de Valois, comte d'Angoulême

Jean d'Orléans (* 1399 ; † April 30, 1467 ), called le Bon (German: the good ), was Count of Angoulême and Périgord . He was a son of Duke Louis d'Orléans and Valentina Visconti , so on his father's side he was a grandson of King Charles V of France . His older brother was the Duke Charles d'Orléans , who was the father of King Louis XII. was. Jean himself was the grandfather of the French King Francis I.

Life

Jean was handed over as a hostage to the English in 1412 , who held him for 32 years until 1444. In 1438 he sold the county of Périgord to Jean de Châtillon , Count of Penthièvre . After his release, he fought in the Guyenne in 1451 under the command of his half-brother Jean de Dunois . Jean was buried in Angoulême Cathedral.

On August 31, 1449 he married Marguerite de Rohan , daughter of Alain IX. de Rohan and Marguerite de Montfort. Your children were:

• Louis (1455--1458)
• Charles (* 1459; † 1496), Count of Angoulême, father of King Francis I.
• Jeanne (* 1462; † 1520), ∞ Charles François de Coetivy, Count of Taillebourg ( House of Coëtivy )

In addition, he had an illegitimate son, Jean de Valois, named Bâtard d'Angoulême , whom he legitimized in 1458.

literature

• Jean-François Eusèbe Castaigne: La Vie de Jean d'Orléans: dit le bon, comte d'Angoulème, aïeul de François Ier . Angoulême 1852.
• Gustave Dupont-Ferrier: La date de la naissance de Jean d'Orléans, comte d'Angoulême . In: Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes . Vol. 56, No. 1, 1895, ISSN  1953-8138 , pp. 518-527, persee.fr (PDF; 7.8 MB).

predecessor	Office	successor
Louis	Count of Angoulême 1407–1467	Charles
Louis	Count of Périgord 1407–1438	John II of Penthièvre