Jean IV of Vendôme
Jean IV of Montoire († 1240), lord of Montoire, then count de Vendôme (1217 - 1240), wire of Pierre II, lord of Montoire and Agnes de Vendôme.
It succeeded his uncle Jean III '' the Ecclesiastic '' in 1217. In 1220, it founds with his wife the Abbaye of Virginity, the oldest convent of woman of Vendômois.
In 1226, it accompanies Saint Louis in the Albigensian Crusade. This one being still minor, regency was ensured by his/her mother Blanche of Castille, badly accepted by the large vassal ones of the Crown which plots its ousting. The regent succeeds in ruining the plot and it is in Vendôme that Pierre Mauclerc duke of Brittany and Hugues X of Lusignan, count of Walk will make their tender and will sign the Traité of Vendôme (1227).
Jean IV also made strengthen the town of Vendôme.
Of his wife Wild rose, it had:
- Pierre
- Geoffroy, lord of Lavardin
- Jean, lord of Saint-Laurent-of-Mortars
- Mathilde, married to Hugues de Montigny, lord of VBiévy
- Agnes
- Honorine married to Geoffroy lord of Trôo
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