Olivier de Coëtivy

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Olivier de Coëtivy (* 1418 , † 1480 ) Lord of Taillebourg , was a French military. He was advisor and chamberlain to King Charles VII. He came from the House of Coëtivy and was the son of Alain III. and Catherine Chastel, his brothers were Prigent VII. de Coëtivy and the Cardinal Alain de Coëtivy , Bishop of Uzès .

In 1433 he was captain of Dieppe . In 1437 he served under the command of the Connétable de Richemont , who later placed him as one of his confidants in the vicinity of Charles VII. In 1445 he was captain of one of the orderly companies, 1447 captain of La Réole , 1451 of Talmont . In 1450 he became guardian of the three daughters of Charles VII with Agnès Sorel , Jeanne, Marie and Charlotte. After Aquitaine was retaken by the French army in 1452, Charles VII appointed him Seneschal of Guyenne . On October 23, 1452 he was - betrayed by Arnaud de Bec - captured and brought to England. In 1458 he was released after paying a ransom. In the same year, on December 27th, he married one of his protégés, Marie, who had been legitimized a few weeks earlier on October 18th.

In 1460 he was captain of Marmande , and from 1467 to 1469 he was finally the Seneschal of Saintonge .

progeny

From his marriage to Marie on October 28, 1458 (* 1444; † 1473):

  • Charles ⚭ 1511 Jeanne d'Orléans, († 1520), daughter of Jean d'Orléans, comte d'Angoulême et de Périgord and Marguerite de Rohan
  • Adelice, ⚭ Henri, Seigneur de Penmarc'h
  • Catherine, ⚭ Antoine de Chourses, Seigneur de Magné et d'Échiré
  • Marguerite, ⚭ François de Pons, Comte de Montfort
  • Gilette, ⚭ I Jacques d'Estouteville, † before 1510, son of Robert d'Estouteville, Seigneur de Beyne, and Ambroise de Loré, ⚭ II Antoine I. de Luxembourg, Comte de Brienne, † 1519, son of Louis de Luxembourg, Comte de Saint-Pol, Connétable of France (House Luxemburg-Ligny), and Jeanne de Bar

literature

  • Georges Minois: Charles VII. De France
  • Jean Favier : Dictionnaire de la France médiévale . Keyword Coëtivy
  • Père Anselme : Histoire généalogique de la maison royale de la France et des grands officiers de la couronne, Volume VII (1733) pp. 843-848
personal data
SURNAME Coëtivy, Olivier de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lord of Taillebourg and French military
DATE OF BIRTH 1418
DATE OF DEATH 1480