Jean de Dunois
Jean de Dunois | |
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Count of Dunois Count of Longueville | |
Born | France | 23 November 1402
Died | 24 November 1468 | (aged 66)
Spouse | Marie Louvet
(m. 1422; died 1426)Marie of Harcourt
(m. 1439; died 1464) |
Issue Among others… | François Ι d'Orléans-Longueville |
Father | Louis I, Duke of Orléans |
Mother | Mariette d'Enghien |
Military career | |
Service/ | French Army |
Battles/wars |
Jean d'Orléans, Count of Dunois (23 November 1402 – 24 November 1468), known as the "Bastard of Orléans" (
Life
Jean was the illegitimate son of Louis I, Duke of Orléans – son of King Charles V of France – and his mistress Mariette d'Enghien.[2] In 1407, Jean's father, Louis I, Duke of Orléans was assassinated.[1] Eight years later, his half-brother, Charles, Duke of Orléans was captured at the Battle of Agincourt. He remained a prisoner of the English for twenty-five years.[1] This left Jean the only adult male to represent the house of Orléans.[1] He was Knight of the Order of the Porcupine.
Jean joined the civil war in France in the time of
Jean took part in the coronation of Charles VII and in 1436 aided in the recapture of
Jean participated in the
Marriages and progeny
He married Marie Louvet (d. 1426) in April 1422 at Bourges,[5] by whom he had no children.
He married a second time to Marie of Harcourt (d. 1464),[6] Lady of Parthenay 26 October 1439 and had four children:
- Jean (1443-1453)[7]
- François Ι d'Orléans-Longueville (1447–1491), Count of Dunois, Tancarville, Longueville, and Montgomery, married 2 July 1466 to Agnès of Savoy (1445–1508).[7] One of their children was Louis I d'Orléans, duc de Longueville.[7]
- Marie (1440-?), married 1466 to Louis de la Haye, Lord of Passavant and Mortagne.[7]
- Catherine d'Orléans (1449–1501), married 14 May 1468 to Johann VII of Saarbrücken-Commercy (1430–1492), Count of Roucy[7]
Titles
- Lord of Valbonais (1421–1468)
- Count of Mortain(1424–1425)
- Viscount of Saint-Sauveur
- Count of Périgord (1430–1439)
- Count of Dunois(1439–1468)
- Count of Longueville(1443–1468)
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Emery 2016, p. 322.
- ^ Sowerby & Hennings 2017, p. 86.
- ^ a b c d Grummitt 2010, p. 550.
- ^ a b Grummitt 2010, p. 551.
- ^ Vale 1974, p. 23-24.
- ^ Gillerman 1994, p. 169.
- ^ a b c d e Potter 1995, p. 373.
Sources
- Emery, Anthony (2016). Seats of Power in Europe during the Hundred Years War. Oxbow Books.
- Gillerman, Dorothy W. (1994). Enguerran De Marigny and the Church of Notre-Dame at Ecouis: Art and Patronage in the Reign of Philip the Fair. Pennsylvania University Press.
- Grummitt, David (2010). "Jean, Count of Dunois". In Rogers, Clifford J. (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology. Oxford University Press. pp. 550–551.
- Potter, David (1995). A History of France, 1460-1560: The Emergence of a Nation State. St. Martin's Press.
- Sowerby, Tracey A.; Hennings, Jan, eds. (2017). Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World C.1410-1800. Routledge.
- Vale, Malcolm Graham Allan (1974). Charles VI. University of California Press.
Further reading
- Jean de Dunois biography at xenophongroup.com
- Jean de Dunois biography at jean-claude.colrat.pagesperso-orange.fr
- Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Dunois Hours') (BL Yates Thompson 3)
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 682.