Antoine de Toulongeon

Antoine de Toulongeon was born in 1385 in Burgundy and died the September 29th 1432.

Antoine de Toulongeon will occupy of the important functions in the duchy of Burgundy, ambassador in England and France, Chambellan, marshal of Burgundy, General governor of the countries of Burgundy and Charolais. He is one of the first knights of the Ordre of the Golden Fleece and one of the large captains of the Guerre one hundred year old.

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The church of Sennecey conceals a whole of paintings installation probably shortly after the rebuilding of the chorus of the church, by the family of Toulongeon-Sennecey.

This house draws its name from a castle located close to Orgelet (the Jura).

Antoine de Toulongeon is the son of Tristan de Toulongeon (1350 - 1399), baron of Sennecey, adviser of the large council and Jeanne de Cotebrune.

His/her maternal grandfather, Jean de Cotebrune , is marshal of Burgundy, knight, adviser, chamberlain. He is made to marshal by fire Mister the Duke, he is confirmed in the aforementioned load of marshal of Burgundy by the duke Philippe the Good by letters patent data with Troyes on April 9th after Easter 1420.

His/her older brother, Jean II of Toulongeon (1381 - 1427), baron of Sennecey and lord of Toulongeon, knight, adviser, chamberlain, governor of Troyes (1417 - 1418), marshal of Burgundy. He is deceased on July 10th, 1427.

Antoine de Toulongeon has another brother and a sister who appear in the chronicles and the books on the history of the duchy of Burgundy:

Andre de Toulongeon, initially ordinary rider of stable, wine waiter of the duke of Burgundy, then first rider of the body, Marie in 1428 with girl of the duke of Burgundy, Philippe the Good. Master of the Horse of France in 1419, he is lord of Mornay, adviser and chamberlain of the duke of Burgundy and his gruyer of the County. It Marie also with Jacqueline of Trémoille (cousin of Georges of Trémoille). It is him-also knight about the Golden Fleece and died in Holy Land, in 1432, without to have received the order. Andre de Toulongeon, ambassador of the prince, Philippe the Good with the Portugal, concludes the marriage there from its Master with the Princess Isabelle of Portugal (1397-1471).

Jeanne de Toulongeon (1382 - 1419) Marie with Tristan de Montholon , ordering cavalry of the dukes of the Brabant and Burgundy, the October 25th 1415, with the Battle of Azincourt, where it is killed. It remarie with Henri de Champdivers, brother of Odinette de Champdivers, mistress of the king Charles VI of France, wire and girl of Odin, lord of Champdivers and rider of stable of the King in 1387.

The blazon of Toulongeon or Toulonjon, of Champlitte (Franche-Comté) is: Quartered: to the 1 & 4, mouths, with 3 money binoculars; to the 2 & 3, mouths, to 3 fasces heavy showers of gold .

Biography

Time of Jean Ier of Burgundy

Negotiations in Paris (1415)

Antoine de Toulongeon is lord of Buxy, Bastie, Montrichard and of Traves. In 1414, it orders a company Jean Ier of Burgundy and is the comrade in arms of his Jean brother who is older and has already more important commands.

In 1417, Antoine de Toulongeon, his brother Andre and his other brother, Jean II of Toulongeon are quoted among the large lords who accompany the duke by Burgundy, with Pontoise, Meulan…. The castle of Marcoussy, Dourdan, Palaiseau, and other fortresses with approximately go in the obedience of the duke of Burgundy . But for Montlhéry, it is necessary to besiege the city.

Captain and governor (1418)

January 9th 1418, it replaces his/her Jean brother, as captain and guard of Troyes, Champagne and Brie.

Monstrelet designates Antoine de Toulongeon like belonging to the lords sent to the Siège of Rouen, for the King and the duke of Burgundy, in 1418-1419. Histoire of Rouen under the English domination at the fifteenth century even says to us that it was covered there with glory. It is at that time, lord of Traves and Bastie, knight, adviser and chamberlain of the duke of Burgundy. This one entrusted 2.000 men-at-arms to him.

Jean Ier of Burgundy starts new negotiations with the English not to find in Henri V of England a frightening enemy. July 22nd, 1419, a safe conduct is granted to the Burgundian advisers Regnier Pot, Antoine de Toulongeon and Henri Goethals, which go to Mantes, to treat with Henri V of England.

August 6th, they follow it to Pontoise, but these talks do not bring any result and the King d' Angleterre announces of it the rupture in a long protest of zeal for peace, where he recalls that the castle of Pontoise, distant hardly from seven miles Paris is the key of the capital of France.

shouldn't one place at the same time the arrival at Pontoise of the ambassadors of the Dolphin which informs of the negotiations started with the duke Jean, in the contempt of the treated of Pouilly, had believed to be able to thwart them only while returning to its policy of the previous year? These ambassadors were not going to announce that he agree to deliver to Henri V of England with the Normandy and the Maine, one of peerages of the Duc of Burgundy, the heritage even of Marguerite de Male .

The assassination of the duke of Burgundy

Jean Ier of Burgundy, known as Jean without Fear , its duke finds death at the time of an interview with its rival Charles VII of France, the September 10th 1419, with Montereau-Fault-Yonne).

Charles VII of France lets massacre with blows of axes and daggers the Duc of Burgundy. The Bourguignons shout: Treason! Treason! Alarms! the combat and the cries continue in the tent; one walks on the dying duke, that no one does not think of helping. Hitherto, from the Dauphine ones, armed better, had the top; but, to the cries of the lord of Montagu, Antoine de Thoulongeon, Simon Othelimer, Sambutier and Jean d' Armay run, approach the cabin, and, while three of them dart their swords with those of the inside, the fourth breaks the barrier. On their side, the men hidden in the house by Charles VII of France leave and arrive in assistance at from the Dauphine one.

The Burgundian , indicator which any resistance is useless, escape by the broken barrier. From the Dauphine ones continue them, and three people only remain under the empty and ensanglantée tent.

Time of Philippe the Good

Battle of Cravant (1423)

The new duke of Burgundy, Philippe the Good, made alliance with the English: what Jean without Peur had always avoided. Antoine leaves as ambassador in England.

On his return, Antoine de Toulongeon is also governor of the constabulary of Burgundy

At the end of July 1423, the French Army goes on Cravant, in the hope to reconquer this fortress. The lord de Chastellux with his approach urges helps is with the duchess dowager of Burgundy which is then with Dijon, that is to say with the Duc of Bedford Jean of Lancaster, in Paris. One and the other gathers in haste their soldiers. The counts de Suffolk and of Salisbury bring to Auxerre approximately four thousand English. They meet at least as many Burgundian there ordered by Jean II of Toulongeon, marshal of Burgundy, his brother. A severe payment is published in this city to prevent any quarrel between the two nations which start to be looked with jealousy. The order is also given to any soldier not to make any prisoner, as long as the enemy will not be put in escape and the English or the Burgundian one who refuses to kill his prisoner will have to be killed at once itself. After the publication of this order Toulongeon and Suffolk carry out their army combined against that of the French. When the French rows start to yield, the Scot refuse to fold up himself and they are massacred per hundreds and more than 3000 of them perish on banks of the river Yonne. John Stuart and the commander of the French Army is made prisoners.

Marshal and gouvenor of the Duchy of Burgundy

With died of his brother, marshal of Burgundy, since 1422, is established marshal of Burgundy by letters given to Bruges on August 6th 1427 and governor of the countries of Burgundy and Charolais

The battle of Caps

In 1430, the marshal of Burgundy, Antoine de Toulongeon, gathers as well with the Châtillon-on-Saone as with Montbard, to help Chappes, 4.000 men of which the fine flower of the Burgundian nobility with the count of Joigny, the lords of Trémoille and Chastellux, the Vergy and perhaps an English quota.

During several days, 800 horses seriously gastent and press the city and chastellenie of Bar, in November 1430. Hundred fifty riders even remain in Bar, where they make extensive damage.

But the crafty one Barbazan refuses with three recoveries the battle which Toulongeon offers to him and even makes fall into a ambush a quota from Bourguignons. He puts his enemies in rout. The garrison unnecessarily tries to help them. The lord d' Aumont, itself is taken. Toulongeon, beaten the December 13rd 1430, must be withdrawn with the Châtillon-on-Saone.

A war for the Duchy of Lorraine

Reasons and preparation of this war

The following years see bursting the war for the succession of Charles II of Lorraine, between his/her brother Antoine de Vaudémont and his brother-in-law Rene of Anjou, count de Bar. the marshal of Toulongeon holds then the states of Burgundy . He is large friend of the count Antoine de Vaudémont and butts himself to make available of the states the insult which one makes with his right. The states seeing how much it is dangerous for the Duchy to have on its border of north a new enemy as powerful as it would be the duke Rene of Anjou decide to support its adversary besides one spreads the rumor as after having subjected the county of Vaudemont, Rene of Anjou wants to undertake the conquest of the Burgundy. The states grant a subsidy of 50.000 francs.

One misses men, the nobility of Burgundy is not even enough to keep the province against so many attacks. The marshal of Toulongeon goes to Brussels to expose to the Duke, Philippe the Good, the distress of his principal field and to request it to send a reinforcement of his people of Picardy and Artois, in order to defend the Burgundy and to help to it the count Antoine de Vaudémont.

The council of Brussels of the Duke does not find that the Artois is threatened less than the Duchy and the lords of this province who have their goods to keep do not trouble to go so far in a country where the French are in force still, to be badly paids there.

Then, the marshal of Toulongeon and the count Antoine de Vaudémont address themselves to some bastard large houses, with the poor gentlemen, adventurers chiefs of companies, all people who have only small incomes and are not in their country in also good position that they would have liked. The bastard ones of Brimeu, Fosseuse, of Neuville, the lord de Humières, one named Tap Bin Dog, and some others, readily agree to go to seek adventure on the steps of Lorraine. They gather thousand or the twelve hundred poor for a long time accustomed companions to run the camps and to living of plundering, of these men whom one sees leaving without too much worrying if they would return, but stiff vigorous and tested with the war.

Philippe the Good supports the first, and the quarrel is emptied with the doors of the border of the Burgundy. The army of Burgundy meets with the Picardy ones which the marshal of Toulongeon brings to Montsaugeon, close to Langres the count Antoine de Vaudémont also comes there with his partisans.

Battles

The marshals Antoine de Toulongeon and Antoine de Vergy, enter the Barrois by Jonvelle and the Châtillon-on-Saone. One starts by putting very at fire and blood as made the duke Rene of Anjou, in the Comté of Vaudémont. This last leaves enough world to continue the war and comes to the meeting from the Burgundian ones. In a difficult country, very cut hedges and ditches, the vivres going they are not enough numerous to engage thus to miss them. The marshal prudently orders with the great sorrow of his friend, the count Antoine de Vaudémont, to return to Burgundy.

The Lorraine ones advance. The duke Rene of Anjou sends to defy the Burgundian ones. The lord de Toulongeon answers that it is ready and wishes only to fight.

The marshal of Toulongeon makes distribute wine to his people, gives them courage in this great danger. Those which had hatred or resentment embrace. Antoine de Vaudémont traverses the rows with horse It protests on the safety of its heart which its quarrel is good and right and which the duke Rene wants wrongly to charm to him his heritage .

They beat the army of Rene of Anjou to the Bataille of Bulgnéville, close to Neufchâteau, and do it captive itself with a crowd of gentlemen, the July 2nd 1431. Toulongeon is wounded with the face during the battle.

the last load takes place in this plain of Bulgnéville, this July 2nd, 1431. The army of Rene of Anjou load the Burgundian ones of the marshal of Toulongeon. Two thousand knights and troops French are made chop by the guns.

The winners pass by again triumphing with Jonvelle and Jussey, with their famous prisoner, who groans nearly one year with Dijon in a tower, then with Salins, in the old manor of Bracon. Érard of Châtelet, lord of Coiffy, and Gerard d' Haraucourt, lord of Chauvirey, are the negotiators of his freedom, for which Philippe the Good retains wire of Rene of Anjou as hostages, and is made deliver four of its castles, inter alia that of the Châtillon-on-Saone, in 1432.

End of its life

The marshal of Toulongeon has the castle of Chassy (Saône-et-Loire). It is perhaps in this strong house that he dies, like his wife, a few years later.

The marshal of Toulongeon survives little his triumph of the Bataille of Bulgnéville: he dies in September 1432, and he has as a successor Pierre de Beauffremont, great-grandson of Philippe de Jonvelle, man of experiment and courage, knight of an athletic and famous constitution in the tournaments and the tournaments.

The marshal of Toulongeon died filled honors by the duke. He is buried in the church of Toulongeon, in Burgundy.

Its descent

After the death of Antoine de Toulongeon, the bonds with the Vergy are thus frequent.

Antoine de Toulongeon married with Béatrice de Saint-Chéron , girl of Jean and a Vergy. They have two wire and a girl:

Jean III of Toulongeon , lord of Notched joints, married with Claudine de Blâmont, rams of Vellexon

Jeanne de Toulongeon , married to Jean de Grandson. This one frees the seigniory from Pesmes, on November 15th, 1416, Saint-Julien, in 1424 and Puits, 1425. Jean de Grandson becomes adviser of the Duc of Bedford Jean of Lancaster, regent of the kingdom of France, and his Anne wife of Burgundy, and captain of weapons of the court of Burgundy. They will have 6 children.

Claude de Toulongeon , lord of Toulongeon, knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, married with Guillemette de Vergy, rams Bourbon-Lancy.

Widower, Antoine de Toulongeon remarie in 1424 with Catherine of Bourbon , lady of Clessy. Catherine of Bourbon is the back-small-girl of Louis Ier de Bourbon and widow of a Damas, another of the first knights of the Ordre of the Golden Fleece. She died in her strong house of Clessy, with Chassy (Saône-et-Loire). She asks so that thousand francs are spent to say masses and to make alms for the lord de Toulongeon, its second husband. This money will be given by the duke of Burgundy, which always owes him an important part of the ransom of Rene of Anjou, 20.000 safeties. They have three children: Tristan II, Georges and Catherine.

But if the family of Toulongeon keeps the Château of Saint-Aubin more than one hundred fifty years, in 1579, Saint-Aubin will become the property of Claude d' Ambly, descendant of a middle-class family originating in Bourbon-Lancy. Before that, Claude de Toulongeon, wire of Jean III of Toulongeon, gruyer and chamberlain of Burgundy, have his goods confiscated by Louis XI of France because of his attachment to the Maison of Burgundy.

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