Jean de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
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Jean de Villiers , lord of L'Isle-Adam (* around 1384 - 22 May 1437 in Bruges ), from the De Villiers family , was Marshal of France .
During the siege of Harfleur in 1415 he fell into English captivity, from which he was released with a ransom. King Charles VI. then made him maître des eaux et forêts of Normandy .
Villiers joined the party of the Bourguignons and took part as one of the leading officers in the conquest of Paris on May 29, 1418 and the subsequent massacre. In the same year he was appointed Marshal of France to succeed Boucicaut .
After holding Beauvais against the English, he was imprisoned and removed from office in Paris in 1420 by Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter . Released in 1422, he entered the service of the English under John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford , and besieged Meulan .
When he was reappointed Marshal, he switched to Philip the Good , Duke of Burgundy , and became his adviser and chamberlain. In October 1426, the Duke made him Governor of Holland and in 1429 Military Governor of Paris and in 1430 Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece . In 1432 he took part in the siege of Lagny , in 1435 he conquered Saint-Denis .
He then returned to the service of King Charles VII , took Pontoise away from the English and brought Paris back under the rule of the French king.
On May 22, 1437 he was killed as a companion of the Duke of Burgundy in a popular uprising in Bruges . He was buried in the St. Donatus church in Bruges .
His eldest son from his marriage to Jeanne de Vallangoujard is Jacques de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam († 1472)
Web links
- List of members of the Order of the Golden Fleece
- List of Marshals of France
- Civil War of the Armagnacs and Bourguignons
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 , p. 32f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Jean de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Marshal of France |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1384 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 1437 |
| Place of death | Bruges |