Charles I, Duke of Bourbon

Charles I de Bourbon ( * 1401, † December 4, 1456 at the Palais du Bourbon at Moulins ) was from 1434 to 1456 Duke of Bourbon and Auvergne. He was the son of Duke jeans I of Bourbon and Marie de Berry, Duchess of Auvergne and Countess of Montpensier.

Life

When Count of Clermont -en- Beauvaisis him fell after the capture of his father at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the task of managing its possession. At the age of 15, he sat in front of the Regency Council and had to after the expulsion of the Armagnacs 1418 the Duke John the Fearless of Burgundy subject (see civil war of the Armagnacs and Burgundian ), whose daughter he married in 1425 then. As governor of Languedoc from 1421, he led campaigns against the Count of Foix. 1423, he was General Commander of the Lyonnais. Charles led the 1429 aid convoy to Orléans, the ( German: Date of herring ) with the Journée des Harengs failed. After the liberation of the city by Jeanne d' Arc, he fought against the English, but learned this little support from King Charles VII, so that he finally withdrew from Bourbonnais. He managed, however, to bring his brother Philip of Burgundy to abandon its alliance with the British and again to approach the King of France, which he was in 1435 one of the architects of the Treaty of Arras.

As Duke of Bourbon and Grand Chamberlain of France, both from 1434, he opposed the king's claim to power. As an opponent of the army reform of 1439 and in competition with the Constable de Richemont in 1440, he supported the Praguerie, but was quickly forced to the peace of the King. In his later years, Charles devoted himself to the skilful management of his lands and founded in Moulins, a magnificent royal household.

Marriages and descendants

On July 19, 1412 Charles married the three year-old Anne de Dreux (* 1409, † 1415), who already died six years old. In 1425 he married Agnes of Burgundy ( * 1407, † 1476 ), daughter of John the Fearless. Their common children were:

• Jean II (* 1426, † 1488 ), Duke of Bourbon
• Marie (* around 1427, † 1448 ) ∞ 1444 John II (* 1425, † 1470 ), Duke of Lorraine and Calabria
• Philippe ( * 1430, † young), Lord of Beaujeu
• Charles II (* 1433, † 1488 ), Archbishop of Lyon, Cardinal and Duke of Bourbon
• Isabelle ( * 1437, † 1465 ) ∞ 1454 Charles the Bold (* 1433, † 1477 ), Duke of Burgundy ( House of Burgundy )
• Louis ( * 1438, † 1482 ), Bishop of Liège
• Marguerite (* 1438, † 1483 ) ∞ 1472 Philip II (* 1438, † 1497 ), Duke of Savoy
• Pierre II (* 1438, † 1503), Duke of Bourbon
• Catherine ( * 1440, † 1469 ) ∞ 1463 Adolf of Egmond, Duke of Gelre
• Jacques (c. 1443, † 1468 )
• Jeanne († 1483 ) ∞ 1467 Jean de Chalon, Prince of Orange from the house of Chalon

In addition, he had several illegitimate children, including with Jeanne de Bournan:

• Louis de Bourbon ( † 1487 ), Admiral of France ∞ Jeanne de Valois in 1466 (* 1447, † 1519), Dame de Mirebeau

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