Pierre of Broce

Pierre of Broce (or sometimes Pierre de Brosse ), born towards 1230 and dead hung the June 30th 1278, was large Chambellan during the first part of the reign of Philip III Bold the.

Of Broce was of minor nobility of Touraine, and was to advise at the court of the king Saint Louis. This one charged it with being the mentor of its son Philippe, future Philippe III, after the death of its elder Louis. After the death of Saint Louis in 1270, of which it was one of the five executors, it quickly became the favorite, with title of great chamberlain, of the new king. It accumulated a considerable fortune, thanks to generosities of the king who covered it incomes and strongholds, such that of Langeais in Touraine, but also thanks to the gifts of those which wanted to benefit from its immense influence on the sovereign.

This influence attracted many enmities within the nobility to him. Moreover, the arrival of the new queen Marie of the Brabant weakens her credit with the profit of the latter. Imprudently, it was let go to try to discredit it near the king, by suggesting that it could be mélée with dead of its first Louis wire, resulting from its first marriage. The queen, to which the king is very attached, response by showing it of handling in this same business (Louis would have been poisoned). In 1277, letters, presumedly written by Broce finish discrediting it near the king, who makes it stop. Imprisoned in January 1278, it is hung on June 30th, without lawsuit. The evidence apparently disappeared, and the contents of the letters are thus unknown, which can let suppose that it was trapped by its too many enemies.

Of Broce in the Divine comedy (Purgatory, Chant VI) appears, with the other hearts of those which, though exonerated, had not been able to make their last confession and repentance because of a violent death.

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