Jean V of Bueil

Jean V of Bueil (born in 1406 and dead in July 1477), knight, captain, large-Master of the principal rafters of France, Count de Sancerre (Jean IV, 1451 - 1477), admiral de France and Viscount of Carentan 1450 - 1477), lord of Bueil, Montrésor and of Aubijoux, Castle-the-Vallière, Courcillon, Saint-Calais, Vaujours, Ussé and of Vailly-on-Sauldre, wire of Jean IV of Bueil and Marguerite, countess of Sancerre. Former companion of Jeanne d' Arc, it was called the Fléau of the English and appears among the companions of Jeanne d' Arc.

His/her father and his uncles are killed with the Bataille of Azincourt in 1415. In 1418, Jean de Bueil accepted from his/her uncle, Hardouin de Bueil , évèque of Angers, the seigniory and the altered fortress of Vaujours. This last came several times in Vaujours and it will die there in its castle in July 1477. In August 1422, Jean V would finish his training near the Viscount of Narbonne. Jean V did not have that 18 years at the time of his first battle, in 1424, with Verneuil, where it was used at the sides of the young duke of Alençon and under the Viscount as Narbonne, which was killed there. He then returned to the service of the mercenary Hire.

In spite of its youth, it gained the nickname of Fléau of the English . It is then named captain of Tours in 1428. De Bueil fought under the banner of Jeanne d' Arc, during the countryside of 1429 on the Loire Valley and contributed at the end of the Siège of Orleans. On order of the king, 200 book-tournaments were paid to him by the treasurer in May and April 1429, to compensate it, as its 30 men-at-arms and 40 people of traict, of the expenditure carried out during the escort of the goods for the restocking of the besieged city of Orleans. Jean V of Bueil was also present at the side of Jeanne d' Arc with Jargeau, Meung-sur-Loire, Beaugency, Patay, Rheims, where they accompany the dolphin Charles for his sacring, and Paris.

Bueil took part in many battles in Normandy, and obtained the load of captain-general of the king in Anjou and Maine, at the end of the years 1430, provinces then at the borders of the kingdom. Bueil defended the grounds of Yolande of Anjou against the attacks of companies of mercenaries French and English. It also engaged in a small war comtre the Marshal of Ray and his castle of Sablé-sur-Sarthe. In December 1439, it takes again to the English the fortress Holy-Suzanne that English directed by Falstaff had occupied for 14 years. One evening when the commander Matthew Gough was absent, he arrives, thanks to the complicity of an English soldier, John Ferremen , married to Suzannaise, to take again the city in middle of the night and to drive out the English there.

Jean V of Bueil took share in 1439-40 with a praguery against Charles VII. Bueil settled with Holy-Suzanne with the detriments of the family of Alençon, her legitimate owners. In March 1441, the king Charles VII of France makes him enjoin to restore the city. But the city truly will be returned to the family of Alençon only in March 1447. However, its military ability made it return in the favors of king de France. Bueil ordered the principal army corps which was sent in Switzerland and Germany, with the dolphin Louis de France, in 1444. The August 26th 1444, of Bueil is with the Bataille of Birse, or Saint-Jacob, close to Basle, where the Swiss ones are demolished, but at great cost for the French mercenaries. He is captain of the one of the companies of ordinance in 1445.

Bueil was also useful with distinction in the final reconquest of Normandy. In 1450, Jean de Bueil receives the load of admiral Admiral de France, after the death of Coëtivy, with the seat of Cherbourg. It was then not of a rank but about a dignity in the navy. The admiral had capacities extended, on the navy of war, the maritime trade, and even the right of justice on his jurisdiction which admiralty constituted. It receipt also the Norman Viscount of Carentan.

He inherited, in 1451, of the Comté of Sancerre of his uncle Béraud III. Jean de Bueil took share the July 17th 1453 with the Bataille of Castillon. He married Jeanne de Montjean , girl of Jean, lord of Montjean, and Anne de Sillé , then, become widowed, in second weddings Martine Turpin de Crissé , girl of Antoine, lord of Crissay, and Anne of Grézille, in 1456. Always in 1456, Jean V made build the market with the grains (demolished in 1883) and a large body of home where butchery was held with Sancerre. The same year, the count bought the seigniory of Barlieu for three thousand ecus of gold. Châtellenies of Vailly and Charpignon and prévotés of Mêche and Bannerois… . It sold the strong castle of Gelles to Antoine de Chabannes, count de Dammartin. With the liquidation of the goods of Jacques Heart (1458), it buys the seigniory of Barlieu.

When Louis XI reached the throne of France in 1461, it relieved the majority of the officers, who were, like Bueil, near to his father, Charles VII. De Bueil lost its title of admiral to the profit of Jean de Montauban, and was forced to withdraw royal Court. Whereas it had joined the Ligue of the Public property , in 1465, revolt against Louis XI, of Bueil returned in grace in 1469, like many other veterans, when the young king realized that their experiment was necessary for him to deal with the military power bourguigne then growing. Jean V became the adviser and the Chambellan of Louis XI. The 9 and September 21st 1373, it was victorious with the combat of Ouchy and that of Ribemont.

The abbess of the Abbey of Bonlieu, Isabeau, rendi consents for the smallholding of Couart, parish of Dissay-under-Courcillon, to Jean de Bueil as a lord of Courcillon in 1476. September 1st, 1377, it gains the combat of Eymet. The April 25th 1478, Jean de Bueil takes Montpellier.

Jean V had a son with Martine:

Antoine de Bueil, with Jeanne.

and two children of its second marriage:

Edmond de Bueil (deceased in 1495), lord of Mermande, Faye-the-Vinous and the Rock-Clermault, which will marry Francoise de Tavel.
Francoise

In its old days, he wrote an semi-autobiographical account Jouvencel (1461 - 1466), work containing an account with key of the head office of Orleans. Its weapons are: quartered, to the 1 and 4 of azure to the money crescent accompanied by six small crosses recroisetées with the driven foot of gold, which is Bueil, to the 2 and 3 of mouths to the gold cross moline, which is Avoir".

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