François Ier of Brittany

François Ier , born on May 11th 1414 with Valves, dead on July 18th 1450 with Vannes with the Castle of Hermine, duke of Brittany of 1442 with 1450, wire of Jean V, duke of Brittany, and Jeanne de France.

Biography

He took share at the end of the Guerre One hundred Year old and in 1449, engaged in the fight with the head of six thousand men, under the orders of his/her uncle Arthur de Richemont and contributed to expel the English Normandy.

One of his/her brothers (and his heir), Gilles of Brittany, was a famous knight who represented in Brittany the party of alliance with England, policy to which the Breton princes and their court were opposed then. François Ier had made it stop and throw in prison in 1446. Gilles died there assassinated in 1450. Though it is not known if it had given the order of it or if this murder were the fact of its officer buildings, François was struck remorse and died by it some time later.

According to its will, it was buried in front of the furnace bridge of abbey the St-Saver of Redon, in country vannetais. Its tomb was moved in one of the vaults of the déambulatoire in 1780 and was destroyed with the Revolution. Its widow the Isabeau duchess of Scotland survived to him until 1494 then was buried in Vannes.

Marriage and children

He married in first weddings in Nantes on August 28th 1431 Yolande of Anjou (1412 † 1440), girl of Louis II, count d' Anjou and of Yolande d' Aragon, and have:

*Renaud, born in 1434 died in 1439

Widower, it remaria with Auray the October 30th 1442 with Isabelle of Scotland (1426 † v.1495), girl of Jacques Ier, king d' Écosse, and of Jeanne Beaufort, and had:

*Marguerite (1443 † 1469), married in 1455 with François II of Brittany

* Marie (1446 † 1511), married in 1462 with Jean II, Viscount of Rohan († 1516) and count de Porhoët

In spite of the protests of the court of Scotland, these two princesses were not recognized heiresses of the duchy. François Ier chooses for heir his brother Pierre de Guingamp. This one not having a child and to avoid any later dispute, the duke made marry his Marguerite oldest daughter with François d' Etampes, second in the order of succession, and the Marie junior with the largest baron de Bretagne Jean de Rohan.

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