Jean V. de Bueil

Jean V. de Bueil (* 1406, † July 1477 in Vaujours ), the scourge of the English (French: le Fléau des Anglais ) called, held from 1450 to 1461 the office of Admiral of France. He was also Count of Sancerre, Viscount of Carentan, lord of Montresor, Château -la- Vallière, Saint -Calais, Vaujours, Ussé and Vailly -sur -Sauldre With a family lineage.

Life

Jean V. IV was the son of jeans out of the house and his wife Margarete Bueil Dauphine of Auvergne, heiress of the county of Sancerre.

1428 he was appointed captain of Tours, later captain-general of the king in Anjou and Maine. Together with Joan of Arc, he reached the surrender of Orléans. He accompanied the coronation of King Charles VII to Reims, took part in several important campaigns - for example in 1444 at the Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs - and was appointed Grand Admiral of France in 1450. 1453 he participated in the Battle of Castillon.

Jean V. was also counselor and chamberlain of King Louis XI. After he was deposed by this 1461, he entered in 1465 the Ligue du Bien public at, but could 1469 to regain the favor of the king.

In his first marriage he married Jeanne de Montéjean, in a second marriage in 1456 Martine Turpin. His son Antoine de Bueil married Jeanne de Valois, daughter of King Charles VII and his mistress Agnès Sorel.

Jean V. is the author of Le Jouvencel, 1466 a written report on the siege of Orléans on the education of youth. The comments to his squire Jean Tringant added this report in 1483, make it possible to identify the persons referred to by the Admiral.