Guy II. de Nesle

Guy II de Nesle († August 14, 1352 at Mauron ) was a gentleman of Mello and a Marshal of France from the House Clermont. He was a son of Jean I de Nesle († 1352), Lord of Offemont, and a grandson of Marshal Guy I de Clermont.

Nesle was in 1348 by King Philip VI. appointed Marshal and served during the Hundred Years War as commander- in Artois, Bourbonnais and in Flanders. At the siege of Saint -Jean- d'Angély he got in 1351 in English captivity, from which he was freed after a ransom payment.

In 1352 Nesle was a founding member of the neugestifteten of King John II Star Order. In August of the same year he led a contingent of about a hundred knights in Brittany, where they were surprised near Mauron by a superior English army. Although they had an escape route open Nesle gave the order to attack, the motto of the Order, to be taken rather than killed or captured to escape. Almost all the knights, including the marshal were killed in this battle, for the north star, this hardly meant after its inception, the ideal end.

Guy de Nesle was married to Jeanne de Bruyeres, their son, Jean II de Nesle and her grandson Guy III. de Nesle, which in 1415 fell at Agincourt. Guys own brother Guillaume, as well as her cousin, Marshal Jean de Clermont, fell in 1356 in the battle of Maupertuis.