Pierre d'Amboise

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Pierre d'Amboise (1428 attested; † June 28, 1473 in the Château Meillant in Berry ) was lord of Chaumont-sur-Loire , Meillant, Sagonne , Les Rochettes, Asnières near Blois , Saint-Vérain , Bussy , Preuilly , Les Bordes- Guénand, Moulins , Charenton etc.

He was the son of Hugues III. d'Amboise, who died at the Battle of Azincourt in 1415 .

He was - like his cousin Louis d'Amboise  - a comrade in arms of Jeannes d'Arc at the siege of Orléans in January 1429, adviser and chamberlain to the French King Charles VII , and in 1440 became his governor of Touraine , but also took part in the same year participated in the aristocratic revolt called Praguerie .

In 1462 he was the ambassador of the new King Louis XI. in Rome , and joined the Ligue du Bien public in 1465 , which is why he was expropriated in 1466, after its end, and had to experience that the king had the Chaumont Castle , his most important fortress, destroyed.

He married Anne de Bueil (the marriage contract was signed on August 23, 1428), Dame d ' Aubijoux , † after December 1, 1458, daughter of Jean IV. De Bueil from the Bueil family , Grand maître des arbalestriers ( Grand Master of the Crossbowmen ) , and Marguerite Dauphine d'Auvergne , with whom he had 17 children, including:

  1. Charles I. d'Amboise , count of Brienne in 1475 , † 1481
  2. Jean d'Amboise, † 1516, Lord of Bussy
  3. Hugues d'Amboise, † before 1502, descendants: the Counts of Aubijoux, † 1656
  4. Jean d'Amboise, † 1498, 1481–1497 Bishop of Langres
  5. Louis I. d'Amboise , † 1503, 1474–1503 Bishop of Albi
  6. Jacques d'Amboise , † 1516, abbot of Cluny from 1485–1510 , bishop of Clermont from 1505–1516
  7. Aimery d'Amboise , † 1512, 1503–1512 Grand Master of St. John
  8. Georges d'Amboise , † 1510, 1482–1484 and 1491–1494 Archbishop of Narbonne , 1484–1491 Bishop of Montauban , 1494–1510 Archbishop of Rouen , 1498 Cardinal, Minister of State of Louis XII.

Pierre d'Amboise was buried in the Sainte-Claire convent in Bourges , which he himself founded.

literature

  • Carré de Busserolle: Dictionnaire géographique, historique et biographique de l'Indre et Loire. Volume 1. 1878, p. 35.
  • Moréri: Dictionnaire historique.
  • Belleforest: Les grandes annales et histoire générale de France. Volume 2.1579, p. 1125.
  • P. Champion: Louis XI. Volume 1. pp 130-134.
personal data
SURNAME Amboise, Pierre d '
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1473
Place of death Château Meillant , Berry