Joachim Rouhault de Gamaches

Joachim Rouault , born towards 1409 and died in 1478, lord of Boismenart and Gamaches, is a Marshal of France, which took part at the end of the Guerre One hundred Year old and served Louis XI.

One hundred Year old war

He is the son of Jean Rouault, lord of Wood-Mesnard, killed with the Bataille of Verneuil, in 1424. , it is pointed out in 1441 with the catch of Creil and Saint-Denis on the English and with the seat of Acqs in Guyenne.

It accompanies in 1444 the Dolphin like first rider by body to forwarding by Germany to the head by the Écorcheurs to the help by the duke by Austria. It offers its services to the Frederic Emperor. In 1448, it is made seneshal of Poitou. The finished truce, it returns to France, and captain of the company of ordinance of Saint-Lo, takes share with the conquest of the Normandy and mainly at the Bataille of Formigny or the English are put in rout.

It accompanies then Jean de Châtillon, count de Penthièvre in Guyenne to bring back this province in obedience for the king. It takes share with the seats of Bergerac, Blaye and Fronsac. Named in 1451 Constable of Bordeaux, it appears with the head of twelve hundred Archer S of the avant-garde at the time of the triumphal entry of the count de Dunois in this city taken to the English.

It puts the seat in front of Castillon-the-Battles in Périgord where famous Talbot, one of the more great men of war of England, was killed with his/her son in 1453.

End of the reign of Charles VII

Gamaches is sent in 1456 in England, to carry help to the king of Scotland and the queen Marguerite of England, against the Duc of York which wanted to usurp the crown. In 1457, an investigation is launched against the crimes committed by its men in Rouergue, which does not lead on any decision.

It buys in Louis d' Amboise the baronnie of the Chaize-the-Viscount.

Louis XI

After the sacring of the king Louis XI, it holds the row of Master of the Horse at the time of the solemn entry in Paris, then is high on August 3rd with the dignity of Marshal of France in 1461.

In 1465, it is in charge of the defense of Picardy against the Burgundian ones and defends Paris against Charles Bold the, count of Charolais and the princes leagued, at the time of the war known as of the “Public property”. Contrary to the orders of Louis XI, it does not send any reinforcement at the time of the Bataille of Montlhéry, which prevents the king from gaining an important victory over the feudal ones.

In 1472, it defends Beauvais besieged by the duke of Burgundy; sit illustrated by heroin Jeanne Hachette.

Denounced by the count of Saint-pol. (which belongs to beaten of Montlhéry), he is condemned to Tours, on May 30th, 1476, with the Bannissement and the confiscation of his goods, but the sentence was not carried out.

He dies in possession of his goods on April 7th 1478 and is buried in the church of Cordeliers of Thouars.

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