Jean VIII of Bourbon-Vendôme

Jean VIII of Bourbon (1428 - 1477), count de Vendôme (1446 - 1477), wire of Louis I {{er}} and of Jeanne of Laval

It is faithful of Charles VII and it made to its first weapons with the count de Dunois as a combatant the English in Normandy and Guyenne. In 1458, it accommodated Charles VII, come with Vendôme to judge Jean I {{er}} count d' Alençon for high treason and to shelter the debates of the judgment.

With died of Charles VII, it joined with Louis XI and fights for him with the Bataille of Montlhéry, but last is wary of the former adviser of his father and it is withdrawn in Vendôme. It makes much for the town of Vendôme:

rebuilding of the Saint-Jacob Vault, as of 1452,
it concedes at the city the door of Saint-Georges, then the property of the ditches (with the load to keep them and maintain them, as well as the walls),
it founds the church Marie Madeleine in 1474, which becomes parish church in 1487.

Of his wife Isabelle de Beauvau, it had 8 children:

François, count de Vendôme,
Louis, prince of the Roche-sur-Yon, then duke of Montpensier,
Jeanne (1), married to Louis de Joyeuse,
Catherine, married to Gilbert de Chabannes, seneshal of the Limousin,
Jeanne (2), married to Jean II, duke of Bourbon, then with Jean III of Turn-in Auvergne, count d' Auvergne,
Charlotte marries Engilbert de Clèves Count de Nevers,
Renee, abbess of Fontrevault,
Isabelle, abbess of the Trinity of Caen.

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