Louis de Laval

Louis de Laval (around 1411 ; † 1489 ), Seigneur de Châtillon-en-Vendelais , Baron de Lohéac , Seigneur de Frinandour, Seigneur de Quemper-Guézennec, Seigneur du Vieux-Marché et Seigneur de Bréal, was a French aristocrat and politician . He was the son of Jean de Montfort, called Guy XIII. de Laval , and Anne de Laval .

Life

As a protégé of Ludwig XI. was de Laval from 1448 to 1458 governor of the Dauphiné . He was then from 1458 to 1461 deputy of the French governor of Genoa . From 1465 to 1472 he was governor of Champagne and from 1483 to 1484 of Touraine . In 1469 he was made a knight of the Order of Michael .

In the service of Louis de Laval stood the clergyman, scholar, writer and translator Sébastien Mamerot , who wrote and translated numerous works on his behalf. It is known Les Passages d'oultre mer du noble Godefroy de Bouillon, du bon roy Saint Loy et de plusieurs vertueux princes , a collection of legend-like reports of the Crusades, by the illuminator partially Jean Colombe was illuminated.

↑ Manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France

literature

Delcourt, Thierry: The Passages d'Outremer , a masterpiece of French illumination of the 15th century. In: Mamerot, Les Passages d'Outremer. A Chronicle of the Crusades. Thierry Delcourt, Danielle Quérel, Fabrice Masanès (eds.), Cologne: Taschen, 2009, pp. 7-10 ( ISBN 978-3-8365-0501-7 ).

personal data
SURNAME	Laval, Louis de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French aristocrat and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1411
DATE OF DEATH	1489

[1] Manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France