Thiphaine Arnoul

Thiphaine Arnoul , illegitimate woman of Guillaume de Prez, lord of Pre-in-Pail, grandmother of Ambroise de Loré.

Summary

The marriage of Ambroys II of Loré and Guillemine de Courceriers has repercussions until the Parlement of Paris and with the Hotel of the King. It is necessary to prove the legitimate marriage of Tiphaine Arnoul and Guillaume de Prez so that Ambroys can marry Guillemette. Marie de Prez, Tiphaine Arnoul and Guillaume de Courceriers are imprisoned with Sillé-the-Guillaume then with Paris, with the Châtelet, all the three with others. The business makes noise, because the goods of Olivier de Prez are put out of balance; he is the legitimate son of Guillaume de Prez.

Biography

Chambrière

Widower, Guillaume de Prez was not insensitive with the charms of a young chambrière, named Thiphaine Arnoul , which, say the authentic parts, by any time remained with him . Towards 1360, it occurred of this irregular trade a girl whom one named Marie and who was dearly raised by her mother, because ambitious Thiphaine based on her all her projects of future size.

Having been able to be for its part only a not very scrupulous intrigante, she wanted that his/her daughter had other titles with the consideration of the men, and she did not despair to arrive there by the protection of the noble knight who had had for her more condescension than the virtue does not authorize any.

A prepared marriage

Towards 1380, Guillaume de Prez was quite advanced on its decline. Thiphaine which had preserved empire on the old man, decided it without too much sorrow, having prepared long hand its seat, to establish his/her bastard daughter in a way worthy of him. One can believe that it had taken itself all measurements and that it is it which threw its reserved, for the establishment of his/her daughter, on the heir to a family of rather good and old nobility with the Maine, but without much fortune nor great reputation hitherto. When Guillaume de Prez appeared laid out to marry the young girl that it had not lost sight of the fact, thanks to the good care of his mother, one proposed to him like suitable party Ambroys Ier de Loré, oldest son of Robert de Loré, lord of the known as place, in Oisseau. It had to only equip been engaged with some one of its grounds, which it could make without carrying damage to the rich person succession that it left in Olivier, his son, and the marriage was done.

Ambroise de Loré

This marriage was happy. The girl of Thiphaine Arnoul gave to her husband three wire and a girl. Ambroise de Loré, second of the name, the hero of the English wars, was the elder one. The grandmother did not give up more her grandchildren whom it had not made his own daughter and, being enhardissant with success, it wanted, by a bold blow, to raise elder her grandsons with the row of the richest families of the province.

Alliance with Courceriers

For that it projected an alliance with the House of the Courceriers, represented then by lord Guillaume de Courceriers, husband of Jeanne d' Avaugour, which played a great part at the court of the Duc of Anjou, while his wife, it also, there occupied a very honourable row close to the duchess. In addition to the seigniory of Courceriers and other large goods in Maine, Guillaume and Jeanne had in Anjou the feudal castle and the châtellenie of the Tool bag. One of the girls of this noble and rich knight appeared in Thiphaine Arnoul a good party for its grandson. His/her daughter, who was widowed of Ambroys I of Loré, lent herself to the projects of her mother to get the establishment of her elder.

Intrigues

But the company was roughcast difficulties and it involved the two women in a series of very dared and perilous intrigues. We are in the year 1409, Ambroys II of Loré had fifteen or sixteen years. Emissary well styles initially went to find the lord of Courceriers and said to him that a marriage seroit well séant of one his girl with Ambroise, lord of Loré, young escuier, wire of the aforesaid the Marie. the proposal was far from being approved of premium-access. Lord Guillaume answered that the young escuier avoit not ground similar line endorsement soy and that not there entendroit. has this answer which was envisaged, one retorted while exposing mysteriously initially, then in a detailed manner and very affirmative, which the mother of the young rider was legitimate or legitimated sister of lord Olivier de Prez, one of the richest lords of the region; that there were good witnesses to prove it, and that thus Ambroise de Loré could divide the heritage of his grandfather, to become even lord of Prez when one would be supported of a powerful influence to undertake and support the lawsuit in claim against the current holder.

Guillaume de Courceriers was already shaken, it asked for evidence that the mother and the girl hastened to bring to him, such as they had manufactured them with leisure. They assure to the dires intermediaries, swearing that there had been marriage between the late lord of Prez and Thiphaine, and that in sign of the recognition of their child and for his legitimation, the young groom had been placed under the stove of which it was the use then to cover the grooms during the bridal blessing. The two women added that until this time, because of the great power of the Olivier lord and of his friends and parents, they had not dared to take the name which belonged to them and to claim their rights judicially, but that they would make it as soon as they would have a support. These given full details assertions, united with the certificates already given or promised, convainquirent the lord of Courceriers which granted a marriage between his/her daughter Marguerite and Ambroise de Loré. One hastened to conclude it.

The two mothers (better) would prudently have made leave it there. But they were not free any more to do it. The father-in-law heard that his/her daughter enjoyed the goods that one had made him foresee; he seems well that he still wanted it, even after the phases of the committed lawsuit had shown to him that the alleged rights were nothing less than some. The part was thus committed on a ground more dangerous than ever. It was not only any more a question of deceiving a father by making mirouetter (sic) in his eyes the prospect for a rich person heritage for his daughter, but of tearing off well this heritage with that which had it; it was necessary to thwart, by supporting this role, the investigations of the justice which necessarily was going to intervene.

Thiphaine Arnoul did not stop with the scruples and it resolutely took the means which the situation ordered. His/her daughter lent her contest to him, without it being possible to suppose the bona fide of its share, because the novel of the marriage and the recognition would have occurred, even with believing about it, in a time when the bastard girl had gone far beyond the Age of Enlightenment.

Both intrigantes were thus occupied actively to seek and recruit witnesses who could, by obliging depositions and realizing finances, to make matrimonial trickery beautiful and good marriage, though deprived, perhaps, some of the additional formalities. The ceremony went back to forty years; this long amount of time gave some chances of more than make some admit the possibility and was to less return, demanding on the nature of the evidence required. Thiphaine besides could put the price at it and did not hesitate to solicit for this unavowable office a noble rider, Jean, lord of Bellée, to which she promised and paid the considerable sum of one hundred francs. This rider, semi-manceau, semi-Norman - the ground of Bleated is in the parish of Saint-Siméon, formerly it was among that of Vaucé - did not find the market too strange and he accepted the conditions of them.

Thus made Juliotte Duplessis for thirty ecus, thus one named Jouchet which had a dress of rousset, thus several others until the number of nine.

After these preliminary precautions, Thiphaine and its daughter resolutely took the offensive and began lawsuit with front the bailly of Touraine and from arise from Anjou and Maine against lord Olivier, lord of Prez. the mother claimed her Douaire to him, and the girl, her share in the succession of Guillaume de Prez. Thus attacked, Olivier de Prez made evoke the business in front of people holding the requests of the king in his palate in Paris.

The intervention of Guillaume de Courceriers became very useful for the embarrassing cause where the two women were committed. For laying out to with it, one of the witnesses gained by them, Colin Bodin, which named also Lornerreux, comes to say to the noble knight, in the presence of Thiphaine, of Marie and even of Ambroise de Loré, whom it knew too well the fact of the mother of its son-in-law, that it had assisted with the nuptials and had seen putting under the stove the young child.

The lord de Courceriers took care well not to release that which was offered thus to him, sent sky or besides.

The trade of false witness did not go in this time without serious disadvantages. Those which made ordinary or accidental profession of it were to be ready to support certain tests which would have frightened vulgar courages.

When it is said to us that the interested litigants to benefit from its deposition wanted to make examine with memory perpetual, Colin Bodin, known as Lornerreux, we do not believe that it was about a purely verbal interrogation. One will see presently that the other witnesses of Thiphaine lady had, them also, somewhat géhennés and pilorized. Colin Robin liked better to retract to further push the experiment and he protested before the question that for nothing it would be examined, because he did not know anything. Those which he thus frustrated in their hope, believed or said that it acted of the kind because it had been subject to other influences and made seek various private individuals in front of whom he would have made his first remarks.

Juliotte Duplessis was number and deposited in its turn; though woman, it was tougher. It is true that the lord of Courceriers protected it openly. It was large of child , which makes its testimony rather suspect when it affirms that it had attended the alleged marriage of Thiphaine and the lord of Prez, forty years before. As it was strong patient so much so that one feared for his life, Guillaume de Courceriers made him give a tail of light local wine, a value of three francs, and six bushels of corn, then to prevent which it did not fall between the hands from Olivier de Prez who made it seek, one sent it in a hostel extremely, named the Tool bag, in Anjou , which belonged to the lord de Courceriers, where it was accepted by Jeanne d' Avaugour. She made her relevailles there, served to some time the lady of the place and accepted from them menus gifts in clothing, like an old coat or Houppelande .

Prison

Olivier de Prez, one thinks it well, did not fall asleep. He obtained letters of the king in virtue of which main Andrieu Going, adviser of the king, and Guillaume de Buymont, usher of the Parliament, made approach and throw in prison with Sillé all the witnesses concerning the intrigante Thiphaine. They were new and, among them, unhappy Juliotte which made mander with its guard that she died of hunger and that, for God, one him envoyast something to live . It did not obtain this time four or five grounds tournaments.

The business was badly for Thiphaine, its daughter and their associates. All this world was transferred to the prisons from the Châtelet from Paris, and the lord of Courceriers itself, deferred initially to appear before Parliament, did not avoid the prison. He however did not despair yet of the committed part; caretaker's lodge, where it was held, it found average to forward to the witnesses captive of the encouragements so that they were held well in their first deposition and that if no thing swage known as on the contrary, that they said while leaving Chastelet that this avoit esté by force of gehaine .

Lawsuit

Undoubtedly this advice difficult to hold was not taken, or the judges lit by other unfavourable witnesses did not let themselves convince. Always it is that the grandmother, the mother and the father-in-law of Ambroise de Loré transfer that the situation was bad, desperate, and that it was necessary to draw some at all costs. Each one on its side was addressed to the leniency of the king. Guillaume de Courceriers who was knight, of noble generation, was free by letter of the May 26th 1410, for a fine of 500 pounds towards Olivier de Prez. Thiphaine and Marie, which had never had no other unpleasant blasme , had, they also, to put forward arguments worthy of consideration, and promises which were prophetic. Prudently leaving in the shade the name and the person of too skilful Thiphaine, the lawyer pointed out that Marie was widowed of Ambroys I of Loré, whose father was knight, and which all those of this house noblement féalement had noblement and féalement served the crown of France, and, added it, it had beautiful generation, it is to assavoir three wire and a girl, and have also the aforementioned three wire good will to be used for the war .

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