Louis Ier of Bourbon-Vendôme

See also: Louis de Bourbon

Louis Ier de Bourbon , born in 1376 and died in 1446, count de Vendôme (1393 - 1446), wire of Jean de Bourbon, count of Walk and Vendôme and Catherine de Vendôme.

In 1393, with died with her father, his mother associates it with the government Comté of Vendôme, then only count in leaves it 1403. In 1406, it repurchases Mondoubleau which it attaches to the county.

At the court, it is a close relation of the duke of Orleans and it is named three times ambassador great chamberlain (1408) and sovereign Master of the Hotel of the king (1413).

Party of the Armagnacs at the time of the Civil war between Armagnacs and Burgundian, it is made prisoner twice (1407 and 1412) by the Burgundian ones, then third once by the English with the Bataille of Azincourt in 1415. Its third captivity lasts thirteen years and during this time, the duke of Bedfort allots the county of Vendôme to one of his captains, Robert de Willughby.

Of return in France, it takes part in the release of Orleans with Jeanne d' Arc, order the seat of Jargeau, attends the sacring of the king in Rheims, is present at the Paix of Arras (1435)

Children

He marries in 1412 Blanche of Roucy which dies in 1421 without posterity.

It remarie in 1424 with Jeanne of Laval, flle of Guy XIII of Montfort, lord of Laval, and a:

Jean VIII, count de Vendôme
Catherine, without alliance

During its captivity, it has of English, Sybille Boston, Jean de Bourbon (1420 † 1496), lord of Courtyards, bastard of Bourbon, which returned to his/her half-brother the large ones and honest services.

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