Jean of Melun

Jean of Melun , count of Tancarville.

It took share with the conquest of the Prussia by the Chevaliers Teutoniques, fought the Moors in Spain, the English in the Angoumois and the Normandy, was named by the king Jean II great chamberlain and large main of France, negotiated the marriage of Philippe (later Duc of Burgundy) with the heiress of Flanders, was taken with the battles of Poitiers (1356), recovered freedom in 1358, contained by its presence with Paris the party of Etienne Marcel and Charles the Bad and had great part with the Paix of Brétigny (1360). It preserved its credit under Charles V, and died in 1382, governor of Champagne, Burgundy and Languedoc.

Charles V does not arrive to débarasser the Conseil of the king of Meluns (they are there since Jean the Good) only in 1375 (they are very powerful politically). The inhabitants of Direction, using the recourse legal permitted by the practical application of the Rule of law by the king, carry felt sorry for in front of the Parlement of Paris against abuses of power on behalf of Jean of Melun which had recovered the load of sovereign of National Forestry Commission. The village communities profited since unmemorable times from the Right of use of its wood (grazing ground, collecting of the died branches, charcoal, glanée…), but the foresters, protected by royal commissions delivered by the archbishop Guillaume II from Melun, seized them, put them at irons and subjected them to ransom! The stop of the courts of justice royal falls on August 31st, 1375: the rights of use are restored to the communities, the temporal justice of the archbishop's palace is confiscated by the king and Jean of Melun sees himself withdrawing his load of sovereign of National Forestry Commission

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