Louis II of Trémoille

Louis of Trémoille , or Trimouille , born with Bommiers the 20 or on September 29th 1460, died with Pavia in 1525, is a statesman and a French war leader of the end of the Middle Ages and Rebirth, which served the kings Charles {{VIII}}, Louis {{XII}} and François {{Ier}}. It is the son of Louis Ier of Trémoille and of Marguerite d' Amboise. He is thus the grandson of Louis d' Amboise and Marie de Rieux.

Titles

He is also prince of Talmont, but also count de Guînes and of Bénon, baron de Sully, of Craon, Montagu, Mauléon and the Island-Bouchard, lord of the Ile de Ré, Rochefort and Marans. He will cumulate the titles: chamberlain, then first Chamberlain of the king; admiral de Bretagne and of Guyenne, governor of Burgundy.

Biography

Belonging to the one of the oldest families of the Poitou, it passed its childhood to the castle of Bommiers (Berry), where his/her father, Louis 1st, and his/her mother, Marguerite d' Amboise, lived in an semi-exile. Towards the 14 years age, it was sent like page to the court of Louis. And his/her uncle, Georges of Trémoille, lord of Craon, then took it under his protection.

In March 1468 Francoise d' Amboise her aunt, was made religious Carmelite and it yielded all its rights to him on the Viscount of Thouars. But in 1469, King Louis XI allotted the Viscount of Thouars to his daughter Anne who was then promised in marriage to Nicolas of Anjou. The Viscount then appears definitively lost for the family of Trémoille, but the treason of Nicolas of Anjou towards the king in 1472 changes gives it. Louis XI recovers the Viscount of Thouars and it ends up engaging its Louis attribution of Trémoille but the King dies (August 30th, 1483) before the effective restitution of the Viscount.

In 1483, his/her father and the king died, and the Louis young person found chief of the family clan. Placed well at the court of France, it seems one of familiar of the regent Anne de Beaujeu. It takes part in the General states of Turns and enters to the royal council. July 28th, 1484, he marries in Auvergne, Gabrielle of Bourbon-Montpensier, close relationship of the king Charles IX. At the time of the disorders of the insane War and War of Brittany, it is one of the chief of the royal army, and in 1488, appointed general lieutenant, it gains the victory of Saint-Aubin-of-Cormier the the July 27th 1488. The Breton army is crushed, and Louis of Orleans is made prisoner. The war however will continue in Brittany in the following years, and it is into 1491 that Trémoille, again general lieutenant, occupy the near total of the duchy. Seul Rennes still holds, when the Anne duchess accepts finally peace: its marriage with Charles IX marks the end of the wars of Brittany, but Trémoille is not invited…

Wars of Italy

In 1494-1495, Charles IX launches out in the forwarding of Naples, which inaugurates the cycle of the Guerres of Italy. Trémoille accompanies it as a chamberlain; it is him which obtains the passage of the army in Rome, and which carries out the attack of Monte San Giovanni, whose rapid hardening knows an immense repercussion in Italy. At the time of the return voyage, it is illustrated while managing to make pass artillery by the escarpés ways of the the Apennines, and this with back of man. When it comes to submit his report/ratio with the king, it appears " to him; black like More! " But the army of the League of Venice awaits the French with the outlet of the mounts, and on July 6th, 1495, begins the decisive battle of Fornoue. The Italian load threatens one moment Charles IX, but it is finally pushed back, thanks to the good behavior of the rear-guard led by Trémoille.

It gains many successes during the Guerres of Italy of which the Bataille of Fornoue in 1495. In 1500, Louis XII indicated Trémoille like his lieutenant-general as Milanese. With the head office of Novare, it succeeds in demolishing the Milanese army and capturing Ludovic More (April 10th), in June 1500 Louis II estimated that it had fulfilled his mission and it returned to France, while declining the offers of Louis XII, who proposed to him to become viceroy or governor of the new province of Milan.

In May 1503, the French Army which had fought for two years in the kingdom of Naples was beaten by the Spaniards of Gonzalve de Cordoue. Louis XII hastened to send helps, under the control of his best general, Louis of Trémoille. But on July 13rd, whereas it held a council of war in Parma, Louis II was embanked by an attack of fever, probably an attack of paludism, and failed to die about it.

In 1509, Louis II and his son Charles (who had been already distinguished with forwarding from Genoa in 1507) accompanied Louis XII in his forwarding against Venice and valiantly fought until the victory of Agnadel in 1509).

During the summer 1512, the French lost the Milanese, Louis XII sent in Lombardy a new French Army with Trémoille. But Louis II of Trémoille was severely made beat by the Swiss ones with Novare in 1513, where its army of: 10000 men fell into a ambush. The Swiss ones prepared the invasion of Burgundy. Louis II was then sent to Dijon and defended the city when the Swiss ones reflect the seat in September 1513 there. He succeeds in negotiating the departure of besieging on September 13rd, in their promising four hundred and thousand ecus.

Louis II is still distinguished with Marignan (1515) at the side from François Ier, but it lost his only son there. February 24th, 1525, François Ier launched the disastrous battle of Pavia against the opinion of his old advisers, of which Louis II. The French knighthood was going to be mown by the fire of the Spanish arquebusiers and Louis II perishes in the battle, killed of a blow of Arquebuse at 64 years.

He is called the knight without reproach , worthy follower and comrade in arms of Bayard, the knight without fear .

Marriages and Descent

July 28th, 1484 he marries Gabrielle de Bourbon (girl of Gabrielle of the Tower and Louis I of Bourbon-Montpensier 1402-1486). During the thirty years of its marriage, it is generally alone to represent the absolute power as of Trémoille. Princess of a castle whose library, the collection of works of art, the vault which it makes build with Thouars, are the marks of an aristocratic size at the same time as of a spiritual ideal. She dies on November 30th, 1516 and is buried in the vault Notre-Dame de Thouars at the side of her only son. Their son:

  • Charles of Trémoille (1485- September 13rd, 1515) which married on February 7th, 1501 Louise de Coëtivy (girl of Charles de Coëtivy, count de Taillebourg and of Jeanne of Angouleme). They had a son in 1505: François of Trémoille which follows,

In November 1516, Louis II sought with remarier and it threw its reserved on the very young Louise de Valentinois (1500-1553), girl of late the César Borgia and grand-daughter of Alexandre VI. The marriage was celebrated in April 1517 but the great difference in age of the two husbands seems to have made scandal, as the correspondence testifies some to the Italian ambassadors.

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