Odette de Champdivers

Odette de Champdivers , known as the Petite Queen was born in 1391, certainly in Burgundy, and perhaps died in 1425, in the Dauphiné, is a main of Charles VI, king de France.

Biography

High royal domesticity

According to Georges Bordonove, Odinette would have been the girl of a Master of hotel of the Maison of the king, certain Guyot de Champdivers , which is actually his/her brother. According to, the Father Anselme, Odette de Champdivers is the girl of Odin, or Oudin, lord of Champdivers, and rider of stable of the King in 1387. Marescallus equorum , applied to Champdivers or of Ghampdivers, can be translated rider of stable perfectly. The marescallus mansionum constitutes during centuries a noble office and of court and Marescallus equorum can of nothing result in commercial horses , as certain novels affirm it. It is after 1387 rider slicing, one of his gentlemen of kitchen.

It belongs to the seigneuriale family of Champdivers, which draws its name from a stronghold thus indicated, located close to Dole and Saint-Jean-with-Losne, in the county of Burgundy. Rousset, in its study on the Common of the Jura , us says that the old house of Champdivers would be probably a branch junior by the Maison of Longwy. One finds of Champdivers lords of Champdivers since 1160. April 20th, 1154, the name is mentioned as a place in a bubble of the Pope Urbain IV. With the Middle Ages, Champdivers are vassal dukes of Burgundy, they live a manor which will be destroyed in 1477 by Louis XI of France.

Odette is the sister of Henri de Champdivers, married to Jeanne de Toulongeon (1382 - 1419), widow of Tristan de Montholon, ordering cavalry of the dukes of the Brabant and Burgundy, the October 25th 1415, with the Bataille of Azincourt, where it is killed. Jeanne de Toulongeon is the sister of two marshals of Burgundy and a Master of the Horse of France. She also has like brother Odinet de Champdivers, knight, who it year 1394 followed Philippe Bold the at the time of his voyage to Brittany.

Guyot de Champdivers, another of his/her brothers, is mentioned under the date of September 1391 in the royal accounts has like one of the pages or riders who were useful in the hotel of the queen, Isabeau of Bavaria. In 1407, Guyot de Champdivers reappears, near the Duc of Burgundy, like rider panetier with two hundred books of pension. This same Guyot or Guillaume de Champdivers sticks consequently and definitively to the cause of Jean without Peur, then of Philippe the Good. It serves its two princes with the title of advising of the king and the duke in the most important businesses in particular of 1413 to approximately 1425.

Odette de Champdivers is chosen by Isabeau of Bavaria (1407)

Its family, born Burgundian, serves the party of the Philippe dukes and Jean without Peur. It appears probable that Odette is given by this last prince to Charles VI of France, after the death of Louis Ier of Orleans, like a new means of ensuring near the king the Burgundian influence. At that time, 1407, Isabeau of Bavaria had provided for the posterity with king de France by providing to the crown twelve kids. Its relationship with her husband, patient and foolish is accompanied by maltreatment and blows, of which it is victim.

Isabelle condescends without much sorrow, nor of loathing, with this substitution, certainly after the design of the last child of the queen, born in November 1407. The girl of Odette de Champdivers was born in 1407, it-also, therefore the relation with the king begins certainly towards beginning 1407 and lasts 15 years and not 35.

Endowed with a great beauty the small queen , it is thus since Odette is designated by her contemporaries succeeds of the kind the queen.

The alive one of Charles VI, rich person gifts were used as reward with the devotion of the small queen . Odette is gratifiée of two beautiful manors with all their dependences located one at Creteil and the other with Bagnolet, undoubtedly located at the Malassis .

During twenty years, it shares the long martyrdom of king de France reached of insanity. One even says that she invents to distract it the charts to be played. According to certain authors, Odette wears clothing of the queen in the royal bed each night, and Charles does not locate substitution.

It is close to the king, at the time of his death, on October 21st, 1422. The queen Isabeau of Bavaria is even absent with the funeral of her husband.

After the death of Charles VI of France (1422 - 1425)

In 1423, after the death of Charles VI of France, Oudine de Champdivers takes refuge with Saint-Jean-with-Losne, in Burgundy Là being paid of its pension charged to royal incomes, it receives in December and October various gratifications of the duke Philippe the Good. Because, after the death of Charles VI of France, the royal incomes are delivered at the discretion of the English. Odette, with her already large daughter, is reduced with misery by the suppression of her emoluments.

Then it comes to seek a refuge in its native land calling upon, to remain the protection of the Duc of Burgundy. Not very satisfied with extremely measured liberalities Philippe the Good, the two princesses remembers that Mathilde has royal blood in the veins.

In April 1424, Odette de Champdivers is placed with Dijon in the hotel trade of the Iron Cross. Brother Etienne Carriage, native of Bourbonnais, and monk of the convent of Beuvray-the-Autun, in Burgundy, passes in this moment by Dijon. the small queen , because thus everyone calls then it mande by its rider, wire of Jean Trestelet, Saint-Jean-with-Losne, this monk to come to see it and speak to him. This Etienne Brother is an emissary appointed by the king Charles VII of France, in Burgundy, in order to there épier under hand the movements of the duke, his adversary.

From that, some will conclude that this Etienne is his brother and that he is cordelier, because he belongs to the Cordeliers, as of others will tell that his/her father is a horse dealer or even one marshal-shoeing.

Odette de Champdivers, via this Brother Etienne Carriage, informs Charles VII of a massacre of her Lyons partisans, programmed by the Bourguignons and the English.

The Dolphin i.e. Charles VII fact of preventing incontinent what is woven the Sénéchal Lyon and a rider is mandé at the same time near the small queen for him to carry the news of it. Frère Etienne has order to inform the small queen with whom it must be in Chalons, during the Holy Week what said to him and ordered the Dolphin.

The Cordelier is stopped by the Bourguignons. He speaks. Odette de Champdivers is also called in justice as her daughter but one puts a certain solemnity at it, because it is the Rolin chancellor who questions them in the presence of people of the large council of the duke. Misses de Champdivers and her daughter support this test with much address of intelligence and firmness.

Odette de Champdivers disappears after September 6th 1424. Any door to believe that she dies in the greatest destitution . She perhaps died in the Dauphine one in 1425, indeed in misery.

It is the second more former mistress of a king of France known, after Biette de Casinel, mistress of Charles V.

Descent

Odette de Champdivers and Charles VI have a girl, Marguerite de Valois (1407-1458), which is legitimated.

In 1418, the king, controlled by the Duke of Burgundy, gives to Odette de Champdivers and Marguerite de Valois, his daughter, the products of the toll of Saint-Jean-with-Losne, in Burgundy, and of the wheel of Troyes. In 1422, from April at October, the government of Charles VI of France dying man allocates with Marguerite de Valois (1407-1458), girl of Odette de Champdivers, the sum of five hundred books per annum, its life during, on the toll of Saint-Jean-with-Losne.

Charles VII of France recognizes for his/her natural sister, Marguerite de Valois (1407-1458) and makes it legitimate by letters dated with Montrichard from the month of January 1427.

Marguerite de Valois (1407-1458) wife in 1428 the lord of Belleville-in-Poitou and Montaigu, Jean III of Harpedane , Seneshal of Saintonge, Chamberlain of Charles VII of France, wire of Jean II of Belleville and Jeanne de Mussidan. He is promised to him by his marriage contract twenty thousand sheep of gold. Charles VII of France grants the right to him to carry the broken weapons of France of a gold bar.

Certain novelists will also see in Jeanne d' Arc, a hidden girl of Odette, at the same time half-sister of Charles VII of France.

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