Mathieu de Foix-Comminges
Mathieu de Grailly or Mathieu de Foix (* around 1389; † December 1453 ) was Count of Comminges from 1419 to 1443. He is a son of Archambaud de Grailly , Captal de Buch , and Isabelle de Foix-Castelbon , Countess of Foix , co-princess of Andorra , Vice Countess of Béarn , Marsan and Castelbon .
Life
Probably brought up at the French court like his older brother Jean , he was knighted in 1419. He joined Johann Ohnefurcht , Duke of Burgundy . As a reward for his loyalty he received from King Charles VI. , the ally of the Burgundian Duke Philip the Good , the vice-county of Narbonne , which this Guillaume II , a member of the Dauphin , had taken. However, he could not take possession of the vice-county because the city of Narbonne was on the side of the Dauphin.
On July 16, 1419, he married Marguerite de Comminges (* 1365; † after June 6, 1443), daughter of Count Pierre Raimond II, who was 20 years older than him and who was her second husband, Jean II. D'Armagnac, Viscount de Fézensaguet et de Brulhois, had been murdered in prison. Fearing a similar fate, he had her locked up in Bramevaque Castle a few months after the wedding and ruled the county of Comminges alone afterwards.
Following his brother's entourage, he left the Burgundian camp and, after a pardon ("Lettres de rémission" of January 6, 1425), joined Charles VII; in his service he was governor of the Dauphiné from 1426 to 1428 . After the death of his brother Jean in 1436 he took over the guardianship of his nephew Gaston IV ; In 1439 he bought the departure of the mercenary leader Rodrigue de Villandrando , who had devastated the county of Foix with his men.
In Comminges, the discontented subjects turned to King Charles VII and demanded the return of Countess Marguerite, whose release the King ordered. Mathieu refused and had Marguerite transferred to Foix . He changed sides again and was accepted into the Order of the Golden Fleece in 1440 . Charles VII therefore placed the county of Comminges under compulsory administration by Jean IV d'Armagnac . In 1441 a war broke out between the Counts of Foix and Jean d'Armagnac, which was interrupted in 1442 by the campaign against the English. After this campaign, on January 17, 1443, Charles VII again ordered Marguerite's release, and this time Mathieu submitted (March 9, 1443). Marguerite died a short time later (between June 6th and October) and, having no descendants, left the county of Comminges to the crown.
In 1446 (marriage contract of April 27, 1446) Mathieu de Foix entered into a second marriage with Catherine de Coarraze (* 1431, † after 1453), daughter of Raymond Arnaud II, Baron d ' Aspet et de Coarraze . With her he had three daughters:
- Jeanne, ∞ (marriage contract of June 17, 1460) Jean de Carmain et de Foix, 1st Comte de Carmain, 1511 attested
- Marguerite, ∞ (marriage contract dated November 5, 1471) Antoine de Bonneval, governor of Limousin
- Jeanne the younger
He also had two illegitimate children with Ismène de Betsagna:
- Jean, Bishop of Comminges in 1436
- Catherine, ∞ Jean de Castel-Verdun, Seigneur de Caumont
In 1449 Mathieu took part in the siege of Mauleón at the side of his nephew Gaston IV. He died four years later. His widow then married Jean de Caraman.
literature
- Roman d'Amat: Foix (Mathieu de Grailly de Foix, comte de Comminges). In: Dictionnaire de Biographie Française. Volume 14, Paris 1979, column 199.
- Guy Allard: Oeuvres diverse: Les governors et les lieutenans généraux au gouvernement de Dauphiné. Jean Verdier impr., Grenoble 1704 (reprint: H. Gariel, Bibliothèque historique et littéraire du Dauphiné, Volume 1, E. Allier impr., Grenoble 1864, 489 pp.), Pp. 155-211
- Detlev Schwennicke : European family tables . Volume III.1, 1984, plate 147
- Raphael de Smedt (ed.): Les chevaliers de l'ordre de la Toison d'or au XVe siècle. Notices bio-bibliographiques. (Kieler Werkstücke, D 3) 2nd, improved edition, Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-631-36017-7 , pp. 93-95, no. 40.
Remarks
- ↑ Here he was represented by Jean Girard and the Chevalier Alzéard Rigaud (Allard, p. 174)
Web links
- Publications on Mathieu de Foix in the Opac der Regesta Imperii
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mathieu de Foix-Comminges |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mathieu de Grailly; Mathieu de Foix |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Count of Comminges |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1389 |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1453 |