Louis Bastet de Crussol
Louis Bastet de Crussol (* around 1425 at Crussol Castle ; † August 20, 1473 in Villemagne ) was a French nobleman in close proximity to King Louis XI.
Life
Louis Bastet was the eldest son and heir of Géraud IV. Bastet (1355–1441), Seigneur de Crussol et de Beaudisner , and Alix de Lastic (around 1400 – after 1438). His younger brother was Giraud Bastet de Crussol († 1472), Archbishop of Tours , then Bishop of Valence and Die and Patriarch of Antioch .
Louis de Crussol was a confidante of King Louis XI. In 1461 he became Grand Bread Master of France , in the same year Bailli of Chartres , and from 1463 then governor of the Dauphiné . The proximity to the king led to an accumulation of offices in 1469: Maître général de l'Artillerie , Seneschall de Poitou (and military governor of Niort and Marans ), and finally a founding member of the Ordre de Saint-Michel .
In 1472 he gave up his office in the Dauphiné and died on August 20, 1473 in Villemagne . He was buried in the Franciscan church of Valence-d'Albigeois .
marriage and family
Louis de Crussol married (through the mediation of Louis XI, then still Dauphin ) on July 22nd, 1452 Jeanne de Lévis-Mirepoix, heir to Philippe III. de Lévis († 1441), Seigneur de Lévis et de Florensac , and Isabelle de Poitiers-Saint-Vallier († after 1498). Jeanne de Lévis wrote her will on October 20, 1485. Her children were:
- Louise (* around 1458); ∞ 1470 François I, Comte de La Rochefoucauld († 1541), son of Jean, Seigneur de La Rochefoucauld, Marcillac etc., and Marguerite de La Rochefoucauld, heiress of Barbézieux, Louis and François I are the parents of François II. de La Rochefoucauld
- Jacques I (around 1460–1525), Seigneur de Crussol, de Beaudisner, de Lévis, de Florensac, de Thoiny, de Sezanne en Brie, Vicomte d'Uzès, Grand Bread Master of France; ∞ (Marriage contract March 1st and June 4th 1486) Simone d'Uzès, heir to Jean, Vicomte d'Uzès, and Anne de Brancas
- François, Seigneur de Beaudisner, 1507 in Genoa and Milan, † before July 8, 1512; ∞ Péronne de Salignac, Dame de Magnac, daughter of Foucaud de Salignac, Seigneur de Magnac, and Anne Gourdon de Genouillac; she married Antoine Soreau, Seigneur de Saint-Géran, and René de Volvire, Vicomte de Bois-de-la-Roche, in her third marriage
literature
- François-Alexandre Aubert de La Chenaye-Desbois , Dictionnaire de la noblesse… , Volume 5, 1772, pp. 394f
- Guy Allard, Les gouverneurs et les lieutenans au gouvernement de Dauphiné , Grenoble, Jean Verdier impr., 1704 (new edition H. Gariel, Grenoble, 1864, p. 177).
Remarks
- ↑ Louis XI's patent letter, Amboise August 1, 1469
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SURNAME | Bastet de Crussol, Louis de |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Seigneur de Crussol |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French nobleman, Grand Breadmaster of France, Governor of Dauphiné |
DATE OF BIRTH | uncertain: around 1425 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Crussol Castle |
DATE OF DEATH | August 20, 1473 |
Place of death | Villemagne-l'Argentière |