Louis Bastet de Crussol

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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

  1. ↑ Louis XI's patent letter, Amboise August 1, 1469
personal data
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