Hugo van Lannoy

Hugo von Lannoy (. Dutch: Huyghe and Hugo van Lannoy, French: Hugues de Lannoy or Hue ), Lord of Santes (* 1384, † May 1, 1456 ) was a member of the West-Flemish nobility, of the first half 15th century was in the service of the Burgundian dukes.

Life

Hugo von Lannoy came from the younger branch of the Flemish noble family Lannoy (French: Maison de Lannoy ). Even as a young knight, he moved to Palestine to fight in the Holy Land and also took part in a campaign against the Tartars. After he returned from his trip to the East, he put himself at the service of John the Fearless, who had also helped manage campaigns in the east. Johann, who had inherited from his mother Flanders and Burgundy from his father, was deeply involved in the power struggles for supremacy in France at that time. Although hostile to the followers of the Duke of Orleans ( Armagnac ), they moved more or less united against the English king in the fight.

So Hugo fought by Lannoy in autumn 1415, as well as his brother Ghillebert at the Battle of Agincourt with the Burgundian troops ( Bourguignons ) somewhat half-heartedly on the side of the French against the English troops. The Frenchman was beaten accordingly devastating and Hugo fell into captivity. However, he was soon released, and as in 1419, four years after the battle, John the Fearless was murdered by the other party, Lannoy was subsequently under his successor, Philip the Good, active in diplomatic missions. So he gave in the turmoil that had emerged by the marriage of the niece of John the Fearless Jacoba of Bavaria with Humphrey of Gloucester in 1422. The childless marriage has already been 1428 annulled and it was agreed that Jacoba of Bavaria had to deny a new marriage with the Duke. As they had, however, married in July 1432 secretly and therefore in breach of contract Frank van Borsselen and Philip the Good, the counties of Holland, Zeeland and Hainaut took possession in response to Hugo was in the following year ( 1433 ) as governor of the Duke of Burgundy for Holland and Zeeland used. He remained so until the year 1440th Together with his younger brothers and Ghillebert Bauduin Hugo was at its founding in 1430 included among the first 24 Knight in the Order of the Golden Fleece by Philip the Good, which underlines its importance in the Burgundian Hofhierarchie. Hugo died childless in 1456, and was buried (the present Lille) in the then südflandrischen Rijsel. Since he had left no direct heir was his brother Ghillebert from 1456 the title of Lord of Santes.

The county of Flanders in the second half of the 14th century

Duke Philip the Good ( r. 1419-1467 )

Burgundian expansion (Holland, Zeeland and others) under Philip the Good

Jacoba of Bavaria (1401-1436)

Frank of Borsselen (1396-1470)