Jean III de Melun

Coat of arms Jeans III. de Melun

Jean III de Melun ( dt. Johann III. von Melun , * 1318 , † 1382 ) was Vice Count of Melun , Count of Tancarville and a French military at the time of the Hundred Years War . As the son of Jean II, Vice Count of Melun, he came from the Melun family ; his mother was Countess Jeanne de Tancarville.

He took part in the Teutonic Order's crusade against the Prussians , fought against the Moors in Spain, the English in Angoumois and Normandy . King John II appointed him Grand Master of France and in 1347 Grand Chamberlain of France . In 1351 he inherited Tancarville County from his mother.

He was captured in the Battle of Maupertuis (1356) and was freed again in 1358. In 1360 he played a major role in bringing about the Treaty of Brétigny . From 1360 to 1362 he was Maître des eaux et forêts. In 1361 he became the king's lieutenant general for Auvergne , Berry , Burgundy , Lyonnais , Forez , Champagne and Brie . In 1362, after the defeat of Brignais , he was charged with the fight against the Grandes Compagnies .

King Charles V also trusted him; he became governor of Champagne , Burgundy and Languedoc . Jean III mediated the marriage between Philip the Bold , who later became Duke of Burgundy , and Margaret of Dampierre , the heiress of the county of Flanders, in 1369 .

It was married and nothing is known about its wife. His son was Guillaume IV, Vice Count of Melun and Count of Tancarville, who died in 1415 at the Battle of Azincourt .

literature

• Jean Favier : Dictonnaire de la France médiévale, keyword Melun
• Detlev Schwennicke: European Family Tables , Volume VII (1979), Plate 55

predecessor	Office	successor
Jean I. de Châtillon	Grand Master of France 1350–1382	Pierre de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
Jean II. De Melun	Grand Chamberlain of France 1347–1382	Olivier de Mauny
Jean II. De Melun	Vice Count of Melun 1359-1382	Guillaume IV. De Melun
Jean II. De Melun (de iure uxoris)	Earl of Tancarville 1351-1382	Guillaume IV. De Melun