John VII, Count of Harcourt
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John VII, Count of Harcourt | |
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| Born | 1369 |
| Died | 18 December 1452 John VI of Harcourt |
| Mother | Catherine de Bourbon |
Jean VII d'Harcourt (1369-18 December 1452,
Count of Aumale, Viscount of Châtellerault, and Seigneur
of Mézières, of Elbeuf, of Lillebone, of La Saussaye etc.
He was the son of
Pierre II, Count of Alençon and of Marie Chamaillart d'Anthenaise, Viscountess of Beaumont.[1]
They had:
- John VIII of Harcourt , Count of Aumale, lieutenant and captain general of Normandy, killed at the Battle of Verneuil.
- Marie of Harcourt (1398–1476), wife of Antoine of Lorraine, Count of Vaudémont, who is the origin of the Harcourt-Lorraine branch.
- Jeanne of Harcourt (1399–1456)
He participated in the siege of
Harfleur. He distinguished himself at the Battle of Agincourt
(1415), where he was taken prisoner.
In 1418, his
Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick and Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter.[2]
His cousin,
Franciscan
convent at Châtellerault, which he had founded. With him, the oldest branch of Harcourt became extinct.
References
- ^ a b Hirschbiegel 2003, p. 679.
- ^ Cokayne, Gibbs & Doubleday 1926, p. ?.
Sources
- Cokayne, George Edward; Gibbs, Vicary; Doubleday, H. Arthur, eds. (1926). Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant (Eardley of Spalding to Goojerat). Vol. 5 (2nd ed.). London: The St. Catherine Press, Ltd. p. 203.
- Hirschbiegel, Jan (2003). Étrennes: Untersuchungen zum höfischen Geschenkverkehr im spatmittelalterlichen Frankreich der Zeit Kong Karls VI (1380-1422) (in German). R. Oldenbourg Verlag.
- (in French) Gilles-André de La Roque, Histoire généalogique de la maison de Harcourt, 1662
- (in French) Dom Lenoir, Preuves généalogiques et historiques de la Maison d'Harcourt, 1907
- (in French) Georges Martin, Histoire et Généalogie de la Maison d'Harcourt, 1994
- (in French) Dictionnaire de biographie française, 1989