Jean V of Armagnac

Jean V of Armagnac , wire of Jean IV, count d' Armagnac and of Rodez, and Isabelle d' Évreux-Navarre, was born in 1420. Viscount of Lomagne, it becomes count d' Armagnac, of Fézensac and of Rodez with died of his father in 1450.

Initially one of the chiefs of the army of Charles VII, it is scrambled with this one by multiplying the gestures of independence and the usurpations of royal prerogatives, and by asserting the Comminges in 1454. It also had a incestueuse connection with his Isabelle sister, who made scandal in Christendom (it obliged its chaplain, under penalty of death, to celebrate its marriage with his sister), but which gave him three children:

Jean († 1516), lord of Camboulas, married in 1507 with Jeanne of the Tower.
Antoine.
Rose, married in 1498 with Gaspard de Villemur, lord of Saint Paul.

In 1455, irritated insubordination of its vassal, as well as scandal, Charles VII sent two armies and Jean V, overcome, had to flee at the court of Aragon and, while the French troops occupied Rouergue and Armagnac, organized a guerilla to badger the occupants, but the king d' Aragon advised to him to go to Rome to require of the Pape to plead his grace near the king of France. Covetous cardinals tried to sell a false exemption to him, but were uncovered and judged. The pope granted forgiveness to him, but does not succeed in making bend Charles VII, and Jean V took refuge at the court of Aragon.

Charles VII died in 1461 and the new king, Louis XI, amnestied it and returned its counties to him. But the count showed ingratitude and took part against him in the Ligue of the Public property, then plotted with the English.

In 1470, Louis XI puts Armagnac and Rouergue under sequestration and sends his/her son-in-law Pierre de Beaujeu to take possession of it, but Jean V raises Armagnac and takes again Lectoure. He is there besieged in 1473 and was killed during the attack, the March 5th 1473, with most of the population.

He had married Jeanne de Foix in 1469, but only one girl, dull in April 1473 had any: After the battle of Lectoure Jeanne de Foix was stripped of its jewels and its jewels and was trailed in the castle of Buzet-on-Tarn, become, for the circumstance, prison of State although it was pregnant seven months to be there locked up beside the corpse of her husband. There, on the order of Louis XI which wished the extinction of the Maison of Armagnac, it was forced by the Cardinal Jouffroy has to absorb a poison intended for his/her child to be born. It fell through indeed, and died two days later.

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the House of Armagnac

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