Bonabes IV of Red and Derval

Bonabes IV , Red lord of and Derval , Viscount of Guerche, lord of the manor of Pontcallec (born about 1328 - died in 1377), Governor of the Country of Mée and Redon in 1352.

Biography

He is the son of Jean Ier de Rougé and Jeanne of Leon.

He is dispossessed of his goods of Brittany as an enemy of the duke of Brittany Jean de Montfort. The king Jean the Good appoints it adviser.

In 1356, it is made prisoner with the battles of Poitiers. “During this captivity, king Jean chooses the lord of Rougé to go to France to level some of the difficulties which were opposed to the conclusion of peace. But Edouard (king d' Angleterre) put a distinguished price at its temporary freedom: it required for guarantee of its return that Philippe de France, first prince of blood, and 48 others of the first lords of the kingdom, went guarantee by body from there, and were committed moreover losing honor, goods, cities, castles and fortresses, and to pay him 12 000 ecu S old, whenever Bonabes de Rougé would not return at time fixed to reconstitute itself captive”, reports us the knight of Courcelles, quoting Dom Morice and its Mémoires to be used as evidence with the history of Brittany .

Bonabes IV negotiates for the king of France the Traité of Brétigny in 1360. This same king makes him gift of the Viscount of Guerche in 1361. The king of England Edouard III the fact of imprisoning in the Turn of London as an hostage for the person of king de France.

After its return, it takes part in several battles and tries to reconquer its castle of Derval in 1377, occupied by the English warrior Robert Knolles. In spite of the assistance of Olivier de Clisson, dolphin of Auvergne and Bertrand Of Guesclin, the attack of Derval is without success, and marked by the cruelty of Knolles and Clisson.

His/her Jeanne daughter married between the 1352 and 1360 knight Geoffroy of the Turn-Landry, the author of the Livre for the teaching of her daughters .

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