Pierre d'Orgemont
Pierre d' Orgemont (* in the 13th century in Lagny -sur -Marne, † June 3, 1389 in Paris), Lord of Méry and Chantilly, was from 1373 to 1380 Chancellor of France.
He came from a middle class family and was trained as a lawyer. He began his career as a lawyer at the Parlement in Paris ( 1348 ), which he became president in 1355.
Pierre d' Orgemont characterized by a boundless loyalty to the king. His rigor, he was at the Estates General of 1357 undoing: he earned the animosity of the reform forces and was withdrawn on their instigation. Parisians mingled with the jacquerie to break down his country house in Gonesse. In 1359 he was rehabilitated. Appointed in 1372 to the Chancellor of the Dauphiné, the possession of the later King Charles V, followed in 1373 he was elected as the First President of the Parliament and to the Chancellor of France. On November 20, he was named the king as chancellor ( it was the first and last time that a chancellor is selected). 1380 he joined for reasons of age ( Charles V died in the same year ), but was nevertheless made to the Auditor General.
Charles V looked after him with a part of the Grandes Chroniques de France, which treated his reign, making these chapters were a hymn of praise to the King.
In 1388, Pierre laid the foundation for the Hôtel d' Orgemont immediately adjacent to the Bastille and the Hôtel Saint -Paul. His son Jean sold the house in 1402 for 14,000 gold Écu to the Duke Jean de Berry. This building was later merged with an adjacent building to the Hôtel des Tournelles.
Pierre d' Orgemont had at least four sons, including:
- Amaury d' Orgemont, † July 11, 1400, including Chancellor of the Duke of Orléans
- Jean d' Orgemont, 1376-1384 Bishop of Therouanne, 1384-1409 Bishop of Paris
- Nicolas d' Orgemont, † July 16, 1416, Dean of Saint -Martin de Tours
The fortress Chantilly, Pierre d' Orgemont had bought from its own resources Guy de Laval, inherited his childless great-grandson of the same name in 1484 to his nephew Guillaume de Montmorency; Chantilly the Montmorency family remained until the 17th century.