Bureau de La Rivière

Bureau de la Rivière († 1400) was chamberlain of King Charles V and adviser of King Charles VI.

Bureau de la Rivière was the son of Jean de la Rivière ( † before 1349 ) and Isebeau Angerant. He already was in the service of Charles V., when he was still regent, was after the accession ( 1364 ) whose treasurer and advisor. He was among all the courtiers around the king the one who became the monarch's closest, was more of a friend and confidant for him. This entrusted him with numerous diplomatic missions, including the contract with Castile, which he finished in 1380.

After the death of Charles V in the same year he was at the instigation Walrams III. of Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol, in disgrace. Only with the end of the reign of the Dukes ( 1388 ), he returned to the top of the Marmousets to power. On them go to a large extent the reform decrees of Charles of February and March 1389 back.

The outbreak of Charles's mental illness in 1392 brought the return of the Dukes and the end of the power of Marmousets. Bureau de la Rivière took refuge in his Château d' Auneau, where he was arrested in October 1392. He was accused - as Jean Le Mercier - his work before, but also the wealth he had acquired it. On January 31, 1394 he was released. After his exile, he withdrew into the Dauphiné. He came again to Paris, but where it did not matter.

After his death, Bureau de la Rivière received - as Bertrand du Guesclin and Louis de Sancerre - the extraordinary privilege to be buried in the Basilica of Saint- Denis. Jean de la Grange reached that his statue was incorporated into the Beau Pilier on the north facade of the Cathedral of Amiens.

In the sack of the Royal Tombs of Saint- Denis during the French revolution his grave was opened and looted on October 20, 1793, his remains were buried in a mass grave outside the church.

Sources

  • Françoise Autrand: Charles VI: la folie du roi. Fayard, Paris 1986.
  • Georges Bordonove: Les Rois qui ont fait la France - Les Valois - Charles V le Sage. Tome 1 éditions Pygmalion, 1988.
  • Jean Favier: Dictionnaire de la France médiévale. Éditions Fayard, Paris 1993.
  • Political Advisor
  • Frenchman
  • Born in the 14th century
  • Died in 1400
  • Man
Charles VI of France Waleran III, Count of Ligny Amiens Cathedral
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