Jean Sauvage

Jean le Sauvage (* 1455 in Bruges, † 1518 in Zaragoza ) was an adviser of Charles the V., Lord Chancellor of the Duchy of Brabant and owner of a tapestry manufactory in Bruges.

Life

His tapestry in Bruges produced from 1502 to 1505 three tapestries for the l' église de Saint- Anathole which now hang in the Louvre.

On May 4, 1508 Jean le Sauvage was by name, along with other gentlemen from Escobecques named as debtor of the contractual penalty in the marriage contract for deputy marriage of Archduke Charles with Mary Tudor.

Charles V appointed on January 5, 1515 - the day on which he was declared prematurely as Duke of Burgundy for mature - his tutor, Guillaume II de Croy to Chief Minister and the following day he urged the former regent Margaret of Austria to official abdication. Chièvres led since then, together with Adrian of Utrecht, later Pope Adrian VI. , And Jean de Sauvages political affairs in the " Low Countries " of Burgundy.

. Sauvage commissioned Erasmus of Rotterdam as a consultant of 15 years of Charles the V. Erasmus had to reveal the courage, what is behind the war: not the courage and the size but ambition, stupidity and greed. War is the scourge of the states, which mention the grave of justice laws under arms.

He was Chancellor of Burgundy in 1515 and on January 17, 1516 Chancellor of Castile.

On one hand, it is reported that after the death of Jean Sauvage 1518 Mercurino Arborio di Gattinara rushed to the court to new consultants and chancellor of Charles V. to be. On the other hand, was said to be the Eighth Jean le Sauvage 1520 and 1525 Ambassador to Heinrich.