Jean II of Lorraine

Biography

Jean is the first wire of Rene Ier of Anjou, king de Naples, duke of Anjou, of Bar and Lorraine, count de Provence, and of Isabelle, duchess of Lorraine.

In 1435, his/her father reaches the throne of Naples. Jean receives at this time the title of duke of Calabria reserved to the heirs to the Neapolitan crown. He was high in the bosom of the knighthood, in the middle of the tournaments where quickly he excels. As of 1444, his/her father entrusts to him the government of the duchy of Lorraine. At this same period, he inherits his Louis brother the title of marquis de Pont-à-Mousson , which is that of the heir to the duchy of Bar. When the hostilities began again between France and England, it fought with other princes in Normandy 1449; it took part in the seats of Rouen, of Harfleur, Caen (1450), of Falaise and Cherbourg.

In 1453, died of his/her mother, it succeeds to him the Duché of Lorraine, but continuous to assist his/her father in his Italian ambitions. It then fought in Lombardy in 1453 where his/her father had gone to help his ally François Sforza, attacked by the Vénitiens and the king d' Aragon. In 1459, the king of France appointed it governor of Genoa, which had then been placed under the protectorate of France, but as of its arrival, it had to repress revolts.

Alphonse V of Aragon, which had seized the Royaume of Naples to the costs of Rene of Anjou, died shortly after and part of the Neapolitan aristocracy calls upon Jean of Calabria. In spite of some successes vis-a-vis the king Ferdinand, wire of Alphonse V, Jean of Calabria must leave Italy definitively.

The Catalonia being revolted in 1466 against new king d' Aragon, Jean II, his inhabitants offered the crown to Rene, who went down from kings d' Aragon by his mother Yolande. Jean, secured by the title of duke of Gérone reserved to the heirs to the Couronne to Aragon then conducted campaign for his father in Catalonia. This countryside are completed with the death of the duke in Barcelona the December 6th 1470.

Marriages and children

He married in 1444 Marie de Bourbon (1428 † 1448), wire of Charles Ier, duke of Bourbon and Agnes of Burgundy, and had:

* Rene, born in 1446, dead young person

* Nicolas of Lorraine (1448 † 1473), duke of Lorraine

* Isabelle, born in 1445, dead young person

* Marie, born in 1447, dead young person

Various mistresses, it also had:

* Jean, bastard of Calabria, count de Briey, died in 1504

* Albert, bastard of Calabria, lord of Essey

* a girl married to Jean of Scotland

* Jeanne d' Abancourt, bastard of Calabria, married to bastard Achille of Beauvau

* Marguerite, bastard of Calabrie

See too

Siffrein de Baschi

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