Humbert II of the Viennese

Humbert II of Tour-du-Pin , born in 1312, died in 1355, was a dolphin of the Viennese of 1333 with 1349.

It was wire of Jean II, dolphin of the Viennese, and Beatrice of Hungary.

The last Dolphin was severely judged by its contemporaries like an incompetent and extravagant: it did not have the warlike heat of his brother and lined up rather in the camp of the peaceful ones. Having passed its youth at the court of Naples. It maintained a sumptuous court with Beauvoir-in-Royans which is badly perceived by its rough contemporaries. To the difference of her predecessors, Humbert does not lead any more this itinerant life of a castle delphinal to the other and prefers to remain in Beauvoir.

It had emptied the cases of its Treasure to organize vain a Croisade in Holy Land, forty years after the departure of the last Christians of Saint Jean d' Acre. After the loss of his only son Andre, Humbert gives up the hope quickly to have a descent and projects as of 1337 to yield his heritage. The financial problems accumulating, Humbert makes proceed to the inventory her goods in 1339 with an aim of selling her principality to the pope Benoît XII. The transaction with the Pope having failed, it is finally with the king de France Philippe VI of Valois that the Dauphiné is yielded in 1349. The Transport (which is the name given to the transfer to save appearances) was decided since 1343, but the crusade pushed Humbert II has to accelerate the process.

To make sure that the Dauphine one, becoming stronghold of the oldest son of King de France, is not compared to any other field of the sovereign, Humbert founds a " Delphinal" statute; who exempts From the Dauphine many taxes and taxes. The defense of this particular constitution will be the main object of the discussions of the provincial Parliament in the centuries which followed.

Humbert enters the order of St Dominique after Transport and aspires to becoming bishop of Paris, even pope when he dies in 43 years in 1355.

The seigniory

Chabottes, located in the Champsaur depended at the same time on the Dolphin and the Lord of Montorcier.

Source

http://www.atelierdesdauphins.com/histo/humbert2.htm with the authorization of the workshop of the dolphins

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