Jacques II of Bourbon

Jacques II of Bourbon , (born in 1370 - died the September 24th 1438 with Besancon), count of Walk of 1393 with 1435, count de Castres 1403 with 1435, wire of Jean de Bourbon, count of Walk and of Vendôme and Catherine, countess of Vendôme and of Castrate.

It made its first weapons in the Croisade that Jean without fear organized against the Turks and who finishes by the defeat of Nicopolis in 1396.

Of return in France, it to him was entrusted a detachment to be led in reinforcements to Owen Glendower, chief of the Welsh risen against Henri IV of England. He joined his troops with delay, being delayed at the Court, seized the island of Plymouth which he plundered and lost twelve vessels in a storm with the return (1404).

He then married with Pampelune the September 14th 1406 Béatrice d' Evreux (1392 † 1414), duchess of Nemours, girl of Charles III Noble the, king de Navarre and of Éleonore de Castille. They will have:

* Isabelle, nun in Besancon, born in 1408, died after 1445

* Marie, nun in Amiens, born in 1410, died after 1445

* Éleonore, born in 1412, died after 1464, married in 1429 with Bernard of Armagnac († 1462), count de Pardiac

It was combined in Jean without Peur in the Civil war between Armagnacs and Burgundian in 1411. The queen Jeanne II of Naples announced with all the princes of Europe which she wished remarier and it was Jacques who she selected. It arrived at Naples in 1415, Maria and was crowned but, after four years of marital disagreement, it left the kingdom and his wife, tried to raise the kingdom in her favor and, having failed, turned over to France. He united in Charles VII against the English in 1428 and was governor of Languedoc, dislocated themselves some against a pension and joined the court of Charles VII.

Mow of an agitated life, it was made cordelier in Besancon in 1435, and died three years later.

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