John IV (Vendôme)

John IV ( French Jean ; † 1230 ) was a count of Vendôme and lord of Montoire . He was the son of Peter II, Lord of Montoire, ( House Montoire ) and Joan of Vendôme.

He was married to a woman named Églantine, who is sometimes called Agnes. Her children were among others:

• Peter († March 25, 1249), Count of Vendôme
• Gottfried, Lord of Lavardin and Savigny

As lord of Montoire, Johann was a vassal of the Counts of Vendôme, with whom he was related through his mother. Together with his cousin, Count John II of Vendôme , he took the feudal oath to King Philip II of August in Paris in March 1203 . After his uncle, Count Johann III. had died without leaving an heir, he was able to succeed as Count of Vendôme. This made him a direct crown vassal, although Vendôme was a feudum of the Count Anjou . Anjou had been in the possession of the crown since 1204 . With his wife he founded the Benedictine Abbey of La Virginité near Montoire in 1220 .

Johann accompanied King Louis VIII of France on the Albigensian Crusade in 1226 . After the king died in the same year, Johann became a support for the underage King Ludwig IX. (Saint Louis) and his mother, Blanka of Castile , against the rebellious barons around Peter Mauclerc and Hugo X. von Lusignan . The royal family had withdrawn to Vendôme , where on March 16, 1227 a provisional peace with the rebels was contractually agreed.

literature

• Dominique Barthélémy: La société dans le Comté de Vendôme. De l'An Mil from XIVème siècle. Fayard, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-213-03071-5 .

Individual proof

1. ^ Léopold Delisle : Catalog des actes de Philippe-Auguste. Durand, Paris 1856, p. 173, no.732 .

Web link

• The Counts of Vendôme (French)

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann III.	Count of Vendôme 1217–1230	Peter