Jean de Marigny

Jean de Marigny († December 26th 1350) was a French prelate of the Moyen-âge, which was also a man of war and a statesman.

He was the brother of Enguerrand de Marigny, with which he had his first episcopal sees and of Philippe, archbishop of Direction, which was illustrated by chairing the Procès of Templiers, under Philippe IV '' Beautiful the ''.

Jean de Marigny was bishop of Senlis, then of Beauvais (1313 - 1347), finally archbishop of Rouen (1347 - 1350).

Jean de Marigny was one of the police chiefs sent in minor Asia with the Admiral Jean de Chepoix, to prepare a new occupation of the Holy Land.

For the long period when it had the load of the diocese of Beauvais, he was the project superintendent of the building site of rebuilding of the cathedral, undertaken as of the 12th century, after the fire which destroyed in 1247 the first cathedral, that he carried out in the long term. After the collapse of the Nave, the November 28th 1284, the discouragement of the builders was immense. The collapse of the monument in construction could have been fatal with the building site. Jean de Marigny succeeds, after three decades of stop, to start again construction by offering canopies. That enabled him to re-enlist a plan of construction, because it was necessary well to rebuild to enchase this gigantic portion of building. And in 1347, when it left Beauvais to become archbishop of Rouen, work of installation of the canopy was practically completed.

In 1321, Jean de Marigny raised the worship of Sainte Angadrême († v. 695), owner of the town of Beauvais, nun of the 7th century of the family of the counts de Boulogne, which founded near Beauvais the Monastère of Oroër, that it directed during about thirty years and which was destroyed at the time of the invasions Normans in 851.

Jean de Marigny was at the same time Chancelier of the king de France Philippe VI of Valois starting from 1329. This year, it ruined the claims of the king d' Angleterre the Régence of France. It was also twice Minister of Justice.

The December 24th 1332, Jean de Marigny takes leave of the king Philippe VI, of which it became the main thing adviser, to leave in Pèlerinage out of Holy Land in company the king de Bohême Jean Luxembourg and its army, in departure for a warlike forwarding in Italy.

In 1342, Jean de Marigny founds, close to Albi, in the current department of the Tarn, the country house of Beauvais-on-Tescou, which did not experience the development which was assigned to him.

During the War One hundred Year old, it ensured the defense of Beauvais, at the time of the seat of the city by the English, which had to give up.

The January 29th 1346, it mandement addressed one to the Master royal forests of the Sénéchaussée of Toulouse, with a copy of mandement royal of the December 6th 1345, enjoignant to him, under penalty of deprivation of its office, to make bring to Toulouse, of the forests of Fousseret, of Saint-Rome or very other, wood necessary to the defense of the city.

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