Nicholas I (Lorraine)

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Nicholas I , French also Nicolas d'Anjou , (* 1448 in Nancy ; † July 27, 1473 ibid) was Duke of Lorraine , Bar and Calabria . He was the son of Duke John II and Marie de Bourbon.

biography

In 1461 he was engaged to Anne de France (* 1460), the eldest daughter of the French King Louis XI. and the Charlotte of Savoy . The king sent him on a campaign against Francis II , Duke of Brittany , an ally of Charles the Bold , Duke of Burgundy , in which he conquered Champtoceaux and Ancenis in 1468 . 1469 gave Louis XI. his daughter the vice-county of Thouars , and Nikolaus became the 33rd vice-count because of his engagement. The following year his father died, inheriting Lorraine and Bar. In 1471 he became Duke of Calabria .

A year later, in 1472, Nicholas was on the other side when he took part in the invasion of Picardy and the siege of Beauvais for the Burgundian ; Charles the Bold envisaged him for marriage with his daughter Maria , which would have brought about a connection between the parts of the Burgundian state that were not French appanage (i.e. the Duchy of Burgundy itself) and Lorraine-Bar. In 1473 Nicholas tried to conquer Metz on his own account , but the townspeople repulsed his first attempt. On the second attempt, Nicholas died unmarried and without legitimate descendants, leaving behind only one illegitimate daughter, Marguerite, Bâtarde d'Anjou, who married Jean IV. De Chabannes († 1503), Count of Dammartin ( House of Chabannes ).

The duchies of Lorraine and Bar went to his aunt Jolande , who was married to Frederick II of Vaudémont , so that Lorraine (increased by Bar) finally fell back to the House of Châtenois . Anne de France later married Pierre de Beaujeu , the younger son of John II , Duke of Bourbon , Maria of Burgundy in 1477 the later Emperor Maximilian I.

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ Date of death according to Joseph Calmette , The Great Dukes of Burgundy , original edition Paris 1949, German Diederichs, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-424-01312-9 , p. 227.
predecessor Office successor
Johann II. Duke of Lorraine
1470–1473
Jolande