Jean Salazar

Armorial bearings

Quartered, to the 1 and 4, of mouths, with five stars with six gold rays in saltire; to the 2 and 3, of gold, with five sand parsnip sheets, also in saltire

Biography

One said of him that it was “ gentleman with the perforated cape, light of money not less than of scruples ”

Born about 1410 in Biscay, it would have joined about 1428, the band of flayers of Rodrigue de Villandrando.

Captain, it joined with Dunois in October 1428 Orleans besieged by the English and takes part in the defense of the city. with Jeanne d' Arc. It follows it in all its battles, and belonged to the army of the king that she leads to the sacring in Rheims.

In 1430, it finds Villandrando and takes part on June 11th in the battle of Anthon. Thereafter, it takes part in the seat of Lagny, in February 1434 to that of Mount-Saint-Vincent against the duke of Burgundy and finally to the release of Paris in April 1436 whose English are driven out. Without employment, the band of Villandrando is established in Languedoc where it is delivered to plundering. Charles VII sends his son the dolphin to restore the order but Villandrando passes to Spain called by king de Castille to repress a general rising. Villandrando remained in Spain, Salazar brings back its troops to France and is established in Lauragais.

In 1440, it puts at the service large lords revolted like Georges of Trémoille, his future father-in-law at the time of the Praguerie. It burns the church of Massiac but, bought joined the royal troops.

He marries on October 31st, 1441 with the Sully-on-Loire Marguerite, lady of Saint-Fargeau, dead on December 25th, 1457 with Saint-Just-in-Champagne, natural girl of Georges of Trémoille

In 1443, after the seat of the the Isle-Jordan, and the defeat of Jean of Armagnac beaten by the dolphin it is put at the service of this last. The same year, it buys the seigniory of Heat-Acute with Jean duke of Bourbon which it will resell in 1450 with Charles Ier de Bourbon

In 1444, it accompanies the Dolphin charged to carry out out of the kingdom the bands with “truck drivers” towards Switzerland then towards Basle. It east demolishes with Farnsburg, which is worth a disgrace to him. With died of Charles VII, Louis XI returns to him his command of the company of the Spaniards of 100 lances.

In June 1463, it conquers with the seneshal of Carcassonne the county of Cerdagne

During the war of the League of the Public property, in 1465, it is in charge of the avant-garde of the royal army to badger the enemy and goes up left bank of the Seine, then takes part on July 16th, 1465 in the Bataille of Montlhéry where it carries to the help Louis XI in danger.

In 1468, it orders four hundred lances and six thousand archers, for the Liégeois, which revolt against their bishop.

In 1472, it takes part in the defense of Beauvais against the troops of Charles Bold the.

In 1477, it takes part in the conquest of the Franche-Comté and is governor of Gray. It is seriously burned in the city in flames during its recovery by the Burgundian ones and manages to escape only from accuracy

He dies in Troyes, on December 12th, 1479. He was buried in the church of the Priory of Macheret with Saint-Just-Savage. The remainders of its tomb are preserved at cathedral Sens.

He was captain of a company of one hundred lances, rider of the king, lord of Grandglise, Heat-Acute, Saint-Just-Savage, Libourne, Mortagne, Laz, Lonzac and Issoudun.

The common points with its Villandrando chief are numerous, as him he married the bastard one of a noble big family but its passage to the service of the king conferred a form of respectability to him which brought the honors to him and from which advantage its family drew.

It was called the Grand Captain . There was another Jean de Salazar, probably a relative called small Salazar.

It was married three times. Of his first wife whose name is unknown it had a son Louis de Salazar known as of Montaigne, of Marguerite of Trémoille it had several children of which Hector, lord of Saint-Just; Galéas lord of Mex and Laas (Loiret), supposed large-Master of the templiers (1497-1516); Lancelot, lord of Marcilly and Tristan de Salazar, archbishop of Direction (1470-1519) which made raise a vault in the cathedral of Direction to the memory of his/her parents. It Maria finally with Marie de Braque of which it Charles de Salazar, lord of Lonzac.

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