Louis d\' Amboise

Louis of Amboise (1392 - 1469), Viscount of Thouars, prince of Talmont, Lord of Amboise, Bléré and Montrichard, Counts de Guines, Marans, of the Ile de Ré, etc… It was born with the castle from Rochecorbon. It was wire of Ingelger II of Amboise and Jeanne of Craon. He is thus the grandson of Isabeau de Thouars and Ingelger Ier d' Amboise.

Titles and functions

Immensely rich, Louis d' Amboise caused the jealousy and covetousnesses of the kings de France Charles VII and Louis XI.

He was prince of Talmont, Mauléon and Marans, count of Guines and Bénon, Vicomte of Thouars, lord of Amboise, Montrichard, Rochecorbon, Berrie, Leugny, Castle-Gontier, Civray, of the Ile de Ré and other places.

Biography

With died of his uncle Pierre II of Amboise, it became Viscount of Thouars. Louis d' Amboise took part in the Guerre One hundred Year old at the sides of the constable Arthur de Richemond. As of on January 24th, 1429, it was at the sides of Jeanne d' Arc with Orleans where it took part in all the actions to make release the besieged city.

Having projected with Lezay and Vivonne to remove Georges of Trémoille, favorite of Charles VII, and to lead the king in his seigniory of Amboise, it was stopped. The Parlement, which sat then at Poitiers, condemned them all the three on May 8th, 1431 to the capital punishment.

Lezay and Vivonne were carried out, but Charles VII made thanks of the life to Louis d' Amboise. He commuted his capital punishment to life imprisonment and confiscated all his goods. He was locked up with the castle of Amboise then in that of Châtillon on Indre.

May 14th, 1431 the captain of the castle of Thouars Jacques de Montbéron, Lord of Azay the Curtain, gave the place to the king Charles VII. In 1432 this same king transferred the goods from Louis to his sister Jacqueline, woman of Jean of Trémoille, lord of Jonvelle.

His/her cousin, Pierre d' Amboise, lord of Chaumont, accompanied by the lords de Beuil, Coëtivy and the fourteen principal barons of the kingdom, entered then, secretly, during the night, in the Château of Chinon where were the king Charles VII and his Georges favorite of Trémoille. They seized this last and locked up it with the castle of Montrésor from where it left only against ransom and with the promise to make release Louis d' Amboise, which was made in 1434. He was rehabilitated in 1437, but the king kept the right to marry the heiress of Louis.

The majority of the goods were returned to Louis, except for the seigniories and of the castles of Amboise, Castle-Gontier and Civray which was annexed to the crown. Louis who liked the luxury ends up having a dépravée life, it acted brutally with respect to his wife Marie de Rieux whom it made lock up with the castle of Talmont. Such an amount of and so that his/her children obtained Parliament his prohibition. The business went up with the king Louis XI which, with the objective to seize the Viscount of Thouars, benefitted from it to put Louis in an intolerable situation with respect to his/her Francoise oldest daughter. This one had become widowed and refused remarier. In 1461 Louis d' Amboise made gift of all its goods to the king Louis XI, the girls of Louis d' Amboise tried to be opposed to what was a true spoliation.

Descent

Louis d' Amboise married, in first weddings, Louise-Marie de Rieux (born about the 1405 and dead on January 24th, 1465) lady of Gacilly, girl of Jean III of Rieux, Marshal of France, and Beatrice of Montauban.

In 1466, in second weddings he married Nicole de Chambes (girl of Jean II of Chambes Seigneur of Montsoreau). He did not have a child of his second wife, but of the first, Louise-Marie de Rieux, he had three girls:

Not having wire, it is the marriage of his/her daughters which occupied Louis. The stake was of size since it was the attribution of the Vicomté of Thouars. Louis d' Amboise died on February 28th, 1469 with the castle of Thouars, it was buried in the church St Laon. With him, in 1469, the elder branch of the house of Amboise died out.

Louis XI immediately made take the grounds of Thouars, Berrie, Mauléon, Talmond, Olonne, Ré and Marans. Francoise d' Amboise was made Religieuse Carmelite nun in March 1468 and it yielded all its rights to its nephew Louis II of Trémoille wire of her Marguerite sister.

Sources

  • J. - L. Chalmel, History of Touraine , 1841, T. IV.
  • companions of Jeanne d' Arc .

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