Pierre d'Amboise

Pierre d' Amboise ( 1428 attested, † June 28, 1473 in Château Meillant Berry ) was Lord of Chaumont -sur -Loire, Meillant, Sagonne, Les Rochettes, Asnières at Blois, Saint- Vérain, Bussy, Preuilly, Les Bordes- Guenand, Moulins, Charenton, etc.

He was the son of Hugues III. d' Amboise, who fell at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.

He was - like his cousin Louis d' Amboise - a comrade of Jeanne d' Arc at the siege of Orleans in January 1429, consultants and chamberlain of the French king Charles VII, and was in 1440 the governor of Touraine, but also took in the same year on Praguerie mentioned some noble uprising.

In 1462 he was the messenger of the new King Louis XI. in Rome, and entered 1465 in the Ligue du Bien public, which is why he was in 1466, after its end, dispossessed and had to see that the king had to destroy the castle of Chaumont, his main fortress.

He married Anne de Bueil ( the marriage contract was signed on August 23, 1428), Dame d' Aubijoux, † after December 1, 1458, daughter of Jean IV de Bueil out of the house Bueil, Grand maître des Arbalestriers ( Grand Master of the Crossbowmen ), and Marguerite Dauphine d'Auvergne, with whom he had 17 children, including:

Pierre d' Amboise was buried in the convent of Sainte -Claire in Bourges, he himself had founded.