Jean II of Luxembourg-Ligny

See also: Jean of Luxembourg

Jean of Luxembourg , born in 1392, died in Own way in 1441, was count de Guise of 1425 with 1441 and of Ligny-in-Barrois of 1430 with 1441. It was wire of Jean of Luxembourg (1370 † 1397), lord of Beauvoir, and Marguerite d' Enghien, countess of Brienne and Conversano, and grandson of Guy of Luxembourg, count de Ligny, and of Mahaut de Châtillon, countess of Saint-pol.

At the beginning of its career, it put at the service Philippe the Good duke of Burgundy, which appointed it governor of Arras in 1414. In 1418, it delivered Senlis besieged by the Armagnacs, then was governor of Paris of 1418 with 1420.

Then it turned to the ground of Own way. Indeed, this seigniory had been formerly held by Châtillon counts of Saint-pol., and Jean, going down from the Châtillon-Saint-pol., asserted the possession of this stronghold, whose strategic importance increased because of the unification of the Netherlands by the dukes of Burgundy. He was made confirm his rights by the duke of Bedford, regent of France in the name of his nephew Henri VI, and took the castle in 1425.

In 1430, it defended Compiegne that Jeanne d' Arc tried to take. During an exit, one of its vassal did it captive and delivered it to the English for the sum of 10.000 books. In 1435, it refused to sign the treated of Arras, which put an end to the free-Burgundian conflict. Charles VII was about to assemble an operation to put it at the step, when he died in 1441. The king of France confiscated his possessions then, but ends up returning them on a purely basis for life to the nephew and to heir to Jean of Luxembourg.

He had married in 1418 Jeanne de Béthune († 1449), girl of Robert VIII of Béthune, Viscount of Meaux, and Jeanne de Barbançon, but of child had not had.

Sources:

http://histoire.beuvry.free.fr/siecles/siecles_moyenage/siecles_moyenage_seigneurs_3.htm

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