John VI, Duke of Brittany

John VI, counted as Jean V in France ( * December 24, 1389 at Château l' Hermione, † August 29 1442 in Nantes at the Manoir de la Touche ). , Was Duke of Brittany from 1399 to 1442; He was the son of Duke John V and his third wife Joan of Navarre, the second wife of King Henry IV was 1403.

Biography

At the age of ten years, John VI was. Duke under regency of Duke Philip the Bold of Burgundy ( † 1404), after whose death he took the government into their own hands. He agreed with King Charles VI. , Whose daughter he married, and in 1404 suggested the English at Brest. With Olivier de Clisson V. he quarreled after he had reconciled shortly before his father's death with this, and was about to besiege him as Olivier died.

At the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 he was too late; He therefore had to subsequently pursue a policy that does not provoked both parties, the British and French to keep his duchy: he signed the Treaty of Troyes ( 1420 ), the ausschaltete Charles VII, but simultaneously allowed his brother Arthur, the Earl of Richmond and later Constable of France, to fight under his banner.

John VI. made peace with the Earl of Penthièvre, the descendants of his pre-predecessor Charles of Blois, who had not abandoned their claims to the Brittany. At a ceremony, they gave in Châtonceaux 1420, he became fixed, but liberated by the vigor of his wife and the Breton barons again. Later he studied with Duke John II of Alençon, where he besieged Pouancé. His brother Arthur of Richmond, who accompanied him, led him to make peace.

In 1440 he was included in the Order of the Golden Fleece to increase mutual alliance alliance with Philip the Good.

Marriage and issue

He married 1396 Joan of France ( 1391-1433 ), a daughter of Charles VI. Children of both are:

  • Anne (* 1409, † after 1415)
  • Isabelle ( * 1411, † 1442 ) ∞ 1435 Guy XIV de Laval (House Montfort- Laval )
  • Marguerite (* 1412, † 1421 )
  • Francis I (* 1414, † 1450 ), Duke of Brittany
  • Catherine ( * 1416, † after 1421 )
  • Peter II (* 1418, † 1457 ), Duke of Brittany
  • Gilles ( * 1420, † 1450 ), Lord of Prince
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