Robert de Lorris

Robert de Lorris (born in? - died v. 1380) was a knight French 14th century which was lord of Ermenonville, of Pontarmé (today in the canton of Senlis), of Beaurain (today Trumilly, close to Crépy-in-Valois), of Montépilloy, Viscount of Montreuil-sur-Mer (in current the Département of the Pas-de-Calais) and lord of Berck and Verton (also in the Pas-de-Calais). It was Chambellan of the king Jean II '' the Good ''.

Biography

Robert de Lorris went down from Eudes de Lorris, to which the king holy Louis, by Letters patent of 1256, made gift of the house of Corpalay, under the homage of the Crown, with faculty to drive out with the bird, and the small animals, in its wild rabbit of Lorris, donation confirmed by Charles IV '' Beautiful the '' in 1324.

By his family, Robert de Lorris was related to the poet Guillaume de Lorris (v. 1200 - v. 1238), the author of famous the Romance of the Rose , which it left unfinished and which Jean de Meung finished forty years later. Its aïeux held their patronym of the town of Lorris, in the Gâtinais, which concerned then the duchy of Orleans (today in the Département of Loiret), and was the familiar ones of the kings de France. By its marriage with one of Essarts he becomes brother-in-law of Etienne Marcel, of which he is made an mortal enemy by restoring the memory and the fortune of his father-in-law, whereas Etienne Marcel had given up straight on the heritage. Anobli, at the time of the Jacquerie, it had " to disavow gentilesse". it is withdrawn with the return of king Jean of his London captivity.

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