Louis de Sancerre

Louis de Sancerre (1341/2- 1403), Constable of France, Marshal of France, lord of Boisgibault, Bommiers, Cop, Charenton, Charpignon, Luzy, Menetou-Living room and Sagonne, wire of the count Louis II and Béatrix de Roucy.

Born into 1341/2, it made its first weapons at the time of the victorious defense of the town of Sancerre, attacked by a company carried out by the English captain Jean Aymery, at the seventeen years age, beside its brothers Jean and Robert. It made build a tower in the castle of Sagonne. Of his connections, Louis had two nonlegitimate children:

Louis, bastard of Sancerre, lord of Barleu, the Tool bag, Beroust, etc
Sleeve-board, bastard of Sancerre, which married Jean of Teillaye.

Marshal of France: 1368-1397

Louis assisted the constable Of Guesclin and Olivier de Clisson in their conquest of Guyenne. He rendered great services to the king Charles V who created it Marshal of France the June 20th 1368 to protect Paris, his capital threatened by Gascon and English companies. The king named it then ordering army of Guyenne. One consequently knows it under the name of marshal of Sancerre . In 1369, Louis forced the count of Pennbrock to to withdraw himself with its people in a village of Poitou named Puynéron. Surprised by the French of the marshal Louis de Sancerre , the count had only time to barricade (passage) in Hôpitault. Jacques de Surgères accompanied the count de Pembroke in the ride which it made, in 1369, against the Viscount Louis de Rochechouart and when it was surprised in Purnon by the count de Sancerre . The April 24th 1372, Louis de Sancerrre arrived at Limoges where it placed with the Jacobins. It accepted reverences of the consuls and middle-class men. Louis summoned the consuls as well as the inhabitants to subject itself to the obedience of the king as they had promised. After the oath of the middle-class men and inhabitants of the city, the Marshal entered the city with his people, signs deployed, and it made put the banners of the roy of France at the doors of Limoges. The company of Louis de Sancerre is received with Périgueux, the September 8th 1376. The December 5th 1376, Louis, in a letter addressed to the Seneshal of Angouleme, ordered that it was made a lifting of money to supplement the expulsion of the English enemies. The Chronicles of Froissart say to us how, in 1377, at the time of the head office of Bergerac by Of Guesclin,… the lord of Lasted, Galhard, was made to prisoner by the marshal of Sancerre , with him, the lords of Langoiran and Mussidan .

In July 1380, Louis is present at the seat of the fortress of the baronnie of Châteauneuf-with-Randon, carried out by the Connétable of Guesclin. Whereas the marshal of Sancerre was advance on the edges of the ditch of the besieged fortress, and had summoned the governor to return the place: this last answered that it had called its on Of Guesclin and that it would go only to him. Then of Sancerre acknowledged that the constable had just died. Eh well! began again the governor, I will carry the keys of the city on his tomb. Louis de Sancerre made prepare the ceremony of burial of the constable. Following the death of Of Guesclin, it accepted the command of the armies of the king in Guyenne, in 1381, to defend it of the English. About 1381, the lord of Langeac is captain in Auvergne under his orders.

It Co-ordered the French avant-garde with the Bataille of Roosebecke of the November 27th 1382 against the Flemings, with the constable De Clisson. In 1387, the Marshal of France drove out the English of the castle of Rochandry. Louis de Sancerre turned over in Guyenne to make with the companies of the English in 1383 and 1385. In 1386, Louis de Sancerre, Marshal of France, is lieutenant and general captain of the king in country of the Limousin, Walk, Xaintongc, Angouleme and of Pierregort and in all the country of Guyenne by on this side the Dordogne . In 1387, Louis de Sancerre has the Seigniory of Charpignon (with Sury-be-Wood) as well as the grounds of Thou which depend on it.

Bands of plunderers having taken for refuge the castles of the area of Angouleme, the marshal of Sancerre made demolish, in 1387, the castles of Jarnac, Borough-Charente and Merpins. The marshal of Sancerre went to the seat of Châteauneuf-on-Charente, Vibrac and Merpins. The review of Louis de Sancerre was accepted with Merpins, the 1387. It led the hard life to the English since the expiry of the last truces, and the two parties felt the need to make news of them. It is what arrived in this same August 1388.

Louis was also Gouverneur of Languedoc of 1390 with 1398. Louis de Sancerre is lord of Ambrault in 1391.

Constable of France: 1397-1402

It was created Connétable of France the July 16th 1397, to died of the Count of Have, Philippe d' Artois, and lent oath to the king on July 22nd. In 1398, Louis directed the armies of the king against the Captal de Buch, Archambaud de Grailly, of the Comté of Foix and treated with him for making some leave. At Saverdun, the constable of Sancerre puts the county of Foix and the other fields under the royal authority: the inhabitants lend fidelity to the king the August 30th 1398. Louis makes main of Bordes, Fossat, of Daumazan, Saint-Ybars, of the Country house of Besplas… and undertakes the catch of the castle of Montaut the January 24th 1399. The May 10th 1399, by the treaty of Tarbes, the count de Foix gives up the English party. The constable of Sancerre had already conquered some of his castles. He sent of Guyenne to Paris two hermits “doctors” to the bedside of the king Charles VI in the hope to obtain his cure. About Pentecost 1399, the “insane” king gives the order in Louis de Sancerre, then in Toulouse, to bring the to him Saint-Shroud of Cadouain.

He made his will on February 4th and died of a long illness Tuesday February 6th 1403. Louis was buried the February 19th in the Basilique of Saint-Denis, of the left side of the vault Saint-Jean-Baptist, vault of the king Charles V, under the vault of the “great rise which goes to the chœu” ". Its lying of white marble, was formerly on a black marble flagstone. Its funeral was celebrated solemnly in the presence of the dukes of Burgundy and Orleans and a great number of barons .

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