Peter of Navarre

Tomb tumba of Peters of Navarre in the Louvre (detail)

Coat of arms of Peter of Navarre

Peter of Navarre , also Peter of Mortain , ( French: Pierre de Navarre or Pierre de Mortain , born March 31, 1366 in Évreux ; † July 29, 1412 in Sancerre ) was Count of Mortain . He was the third son of Charles II the Evil (Charles II. Le Mauvais) , King of Navarre and Count of Évreux , and Joan of France (1343-1373).

biography

Peter of Navarre grew up at the French royal court together with the later King Charles VI. on whose inseparable companion he became. From 1376/77 he carried the title of Count of Mortain, but the county seems lost in 1378 in connection with the clashes of his father with the French king to the crown, and only on May 21, 1401, Charles VI., Now a county and peerage to have got back. However, the Armorial de la Cour Amoureuse of January 6, 1401 shows him as "Pierre filz de Roy de Navarre / Conte de Mortaing".

Around the same time (1404) his older brother Charles III renounced . , since 1387 King of Navarre, by a treaty finally to the county of Évreux (which went to the crown) and to his claims to Champagne and Brie , received the county of Nemours, raised to duchy and pairie, and a pension of 12,000 livres as well as a Severance payment of 20,000 écu . Peter of Navarre countersigned the agreement on June 25, 1404, he was now the former Count of Mortain, but still Comte and Pair de France as well as his brother's deputy in his territories in France, as he had already been with his father.

He married Katharina von Alençon , daughter of Peter II , Count of Alençon and Marie de Chamailard , in August 1411, at an advanced age . But he died the following year in connection with the siege of Bourges, in which he was Charles VI. had stood aside. The marriage had remained childless. Peter of Navarre was buried in the Carthusian monastery in Paris .

Katharina von Alençon married Duke Ludwig VII of Bavaria-Ingolstadt , the brother of Queen Isabeau , in 1413 .

Footnotes

1. ↑ At Schwennicke he was only Count of Mortain from 1407
2. ↑ See also: JB de Vaivre: Les armoiries de Pierre de Mortain . In Bull. Mon. Volume 131, Paris 1973, pp. 29-40, and: Père Anselme : Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France, des pairs […] . Paris 1736, Volume I in-fol. P. 286; confirmed by Arch.nat. K 53 n ° 41 and K 54 n ° 1.
3. ↑ Arch.nat. J 619 n ° 16

literature

• Detlev Schwennicke: European family tables . Volume II, 1984, plate 13.
• Jürgen Klötgen: Un précieux document inédit de Pierre de Navarre (1377) . In: Revue Historique et Archéologique du Maine . Le Mans 1996, Volume CXLVII, pp. 297-304 (illustr.); see also: Revue Historique et Archéologique du Maine 1875–2000 . DVD / CD-ROM, Société Historique et Archéologique du Maine, Le Mans 2006.

predecessor	Office	successor
Charles III of Navarre	Count of Mortain 1407-1412	Katharina von Alençon Ludwig von Valois