Jean V de Bueil

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Jean V de Bueil (after 17 August 1405 and before 18 August 1406 - 1478),

Hundred Years War
.

Career

Jean de Bueil began his military career as a page of the

Order of St. Michael in 1469[7] His last known act was to sign, on 31 May 1478 at his château de Vaujours, the document by which he confirmed certain rights of the prior of Charnes, a priory located in the county of Sancerre.[8]

Le Jouvencel

Seal of Jean V de Bueil

Jean de Bueil wrote Le Jouvencel about 1466. De Bueil intended that the work should have a didactic purpose for young noblemen.[9] He therefore uses an Aristotelian structure to his work, dealing with the hero's career in three parts, which reflect three elements of governance or discipline; the young soldier learns about ethics and self-discipline, the military commander learns leadership of men and the regent learns the governance of a country.[10] Le Jouvencel joins several medieval military literature traditions; chivalric romance, treatises on chivalry and manuals on warfare. De Bueil draws upon earlier writers such as Honoré Bonet and Christine de Pizan but also on his own military experience.[11] In so doing, he gives a rounded image of how a professional soldier thought about and practiced war at the end of the Middle Ages.

Le Jouvencel has been widely quoted by modern scholars of chivalry and medieval warfare.[12] Traditionally, this has focussed on his writings on the nature of military life. He viewed the life of arms to be ennobling in itself and, indeed, in some way, a route to salvation.[13] He is perhaps most quoted for his view on comradeship in arms

You love your comrade so much in war. When you see your quarrel is just and your blood is fighting well, tears rise to your eyes. A great sweet feeling of love and pity fills your heart on seeing your friend so valiantly exposing his body to execute and accomplish the command of our Creator. And then you prepare to go and live or die with him and for love not to abandon him. And out of that there arises such delectation, that he who has not tasted it is not fit to say what a delight is. Do you think that a man who does that fears death? Not at all: for he feels strengthened, he is so elated he does not know where he is. Truly he is afraid of nothing.[14]

In recent times, greater attention has begun to be given to the practical examples given in the text, for example, how to conduct a raid[15] or how to order an army on the march[16]

References

  1. ^ Famiglietti, R.C. (2018). Recherches sur la maison de Bueil. Providence: Picardy Press. p. 125.
  2. ISBN 0-85115-802-1
    .
  3. ISBN 0-351-17097-9
    .
  4. ^ Curry (2000), p.357
  5. ^ Kendall (1974), p.129
  6. ^ Kendall (1974), p.194
  7. ^ Chan Tsin (2009), p.128
  8. ^ Famiglietti (2018), p. 198-199 n. 1092.
  9. ISBN 978-1-84383-500-4
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  10. ISBN 978-0-19-955414-0
    . Retrieved May 22, 2010.
  11. ISBN 0-300-03360-5
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  12. ^ In addition to works cited here, see, for example Kenneth Fowler : The Age of Plantagenet and Valois (1968); Richard Barber: The Knight and Chivalry (1972); Malcolm Vale : War and Chivalry (1981) and Philippe Contamine : War in the Middle Ages (1984)
  13. ^ Keen (1984), pp. 14,152,178
  14. ISBN 0-00-686017-6
    .
  15. ISBN 978-0-313-33350-7
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  16. ^ Chan Tsin (2009), pp.127-134

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