Olivier de Miniac

Olivier de Miniac is a faithful companion of the Connétable Bertrand of Guesclin with which it takes part in the battle of Cocherel in 1364, one of the outstanding battles of the Guerre One hundred Year old. Also known under the name of Olivier de Mauny, this cousin of Bertrand of Guesclin follows it in all his wars, of the head office of Rennes with died of the constable with Châteauneuf-of-Randon in 1380.

Lord of Miniac (the feudal castle of Bas-Miniac, in Miniac-Morvan), of Castle-Strapping man, he is also baillif of Caen, count of Thorigny.

After Cocherel, it builds the castle of Lesnen, close to Tinténiac, in Ille-et-Vilaine, castle now disappeared, destroyed at the time of war of the Ligue in Brittany.

Native of Miniac-Morvan, it remains most remote ascending families De Miniac, which will give in particular one of the thirty Breton combatants to famous the Combat of the Thirty, or a captain at the time of the catch of Rio de Janeiro in 1711 by Rene Duguay-Trouin.

In addition, the family of Miniac is attached to the dynasty of Grimaldi of Monaco by Jacques Ier of Monaco. In fact, Albert II de Monaco is the distance going down from Marguerite de Miniac, girl of Olivier de Miniac who Marie in 1421 in Goyon of Matignon, from which one of the descendants, Jacques, will marry Grimaldi in 1715. Thus, by Marguerite, Albert II is a distance cousin of Bertrand of Guesclin. Moreover today still, the prince of Monaco east Count de Torigni by the family of Miniac.

Others of Miniac precede Olivier (a Raoul de Miniac, canon in Fraud-of-Brittany at the 12th century, Morvan de Miniac, lord of Bas-Miniac, at the same century) without one being able to precisely attach them by filiation. A certainty, this patronym is buried in this commune of the Close-Chicken (country of Saint-Malo) in the surrounding of the year thousand.

External bond

  • http://www.genealogie-miniac.com: complement on its feats of arms.

Sources

  • http://www.genealogie-miniac.com/
  • Frottier de Messelière Henri, Breton Filiations.

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