Ludwig (orange)

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Coat of arms of the House of Chalon as Prince of Orange

Louis II de Chalon called le Bon (* 1390 - December 3, 1463 ) from the House of Chalon was Prince of Orange , Lord of Orbe , Echelens, Grandson etc.

Life

Louis was the eldest son of Jean III. de Chalon and Marie des Baux , Princesse d'Orange, the heiress of the Principality of Orange as the daughter of Prince Raimund V des Baux and Johanna von Geneva. During his father's lifetime he carried the title of Lord of Arguel . In 1417 he inherited the Principality of Orange from his mother, and in 1418 his father's property.

At a young age he was commissioned by Queen Isabeau to recapture the places in the Languedoc and Guyenne that were occupied by the Armagnacs (see Civil War of the Armagnacs and Bourguignons ). His small army was quick to win, but was ousted by the Count of Foix . Ludwig was then loyal but apparently unscrupulous in the service of the Duke of Burgundy; he even got into a conflict with Philip the Good over the imperial vicariate in the Kingdom of Burgundy , which Emperor Sigismund had given him. The Dauphin then confiscated his fiefs in the Dauphiné , which he recaptured in 1428 as an ally of the Duke of Savoy , before he was given the governor by Raoul de Gaucourt , as a result of the catastrophic defeat in the Battle of Anthon on June 11, 1430 the Dauphiné , taught, lost again.

Louis de Chalon had been nominated as a knight when the Order of the Golden Fleece was founded (January 10, 1430), but had not yet taken the oath of acceptance at the time of the Battle of Anthon; after the battle he was accused of having fled during the battle and was therefore refused entry. At the chapter of the order of 1431, Duke Philip the Good rejected his complaint against the decision.

Louis de Chalon then changed sides and Charles VII gave him the fief in 1432 in return for an oath of allegiance. The day after the Treaty of Arras of December 11, 1435, he withdrew from politics to devote himself to the administration of his extensive estates. Louis died in his castle in Nozeroy on December 3, 1463. His son Guillaume succeeded him as Prince of Orange.

family

He married in April 1411 (with dispensation from January 10, 1398) Jeanne de Montbéliard, Dame de Montfaucon et de Montbéliard , the daughter of Henry II of Montfaucon , Count of Montbéliard, Lord of Orbe etc., with whom he had a son , Guillaume VIII. De Chalon (1415–1475), who married Catherine de Bretagne, the daughter of Richard d'Étampes . Jeanne died on May 14, 1445.

On September 26, 1446, he married Éléonore d'Armagnac (* 1423, † December 6/11, 1456), daughter of Jean IV , Comte d'Armagnac, and Isabella of Navarra, daughter of King Charles III. He had four children with her:

  • Louis (X March 2, 1476 at the Battle of Grandson ), Seigneur de Châtel-Guyon and Knight in the Order of the Golden Fleece
  • Hugues († 1490), Seigneur d'Orbe et de Châtel-Guyon († July 3, 1490), who married Luise of Savoy , who was later beatified on August 24, 1479 (December 28, 1461, † July 24, 1503), Daughter of Duke Amadeus IX. of Savoy and the Jolande of France , a daughter of King Charles VII. The marriage was of King Louis XI. arranged.
  • Philippine († 1507), nun in Sainte-Clarisse d'Orbe
  • Jeanne († September 15, 1483), who married Louis de Seyssel, Comte de la Chambre on March 25, 1472.

In his third marriage, he married Blanche de Gamaches († 14 May 1474), daughter of Guillaume de Gamaches and Marguerite de Corbie, widow of Jean de Châtillon, Seigneur de Troissy .

literature

  • François Morand: Chronique de Jean le Fèvre, seigneur de Saint-Rémy. Transcrite d'un manuscrit appartenant à la bibliothèque de Boulogne-sur-Mer, Volume 2, 1881
  • Frédéric Barbey: Louis de Chalon, Prince d'Orange, Lausanne 1926, Mémoires et documents publiés par la Société d'histoire de la Suisse romande, 2e série, Volume XIII
  • Detlev Schwennicke : European Family Tables , Volume II (1984) Plate 61
  • Sonja Dünnebeil (Ed.): The protocol books of the Order of the Golden Fleece, Volume 1 - Duke Philipp the Good, 1430–1467, 2002

Remarks

  1. ↑ Dünnebeil, pp. 14, 30f, 234; Morand, pp. 254-266
  2. ^ Maison forte de Châtel-Guyon in Salins-les-Bains
  3. ↑ Joseph Vaesen, Étienne Charavay, Lettres de Louis XI, Volume VIII, page 43, footnote 2, Paris 1903
personal data
SURNAME Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chalon, Louis II. De; Bon, le
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince of Orange, Lord of Orbe, Echelens, Grandson etc.
DATE OF BIRTH 1390
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1463