Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine

Nicholas I, French and Nicolas d' Anjou, (* 1448 in Nancy, † 1473 there ), was Duke of Lorraine, Bar and Calabria. He was the son of Duke John II and Marie de Bourbon.

Biography

In 1461 he became engaged to Anne de France (* 1460 ), the eldest daughter of the French king Louis XI. and Charlotte of Savoy. The king sent him on an expedition against Francis II, Duke of Brittany, an ally of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, in which he conquered in 1468 Champtoceaux and Ancenis. 1469 was Louis XI. his daughter's viscounty Thouars, and Nicholas was already due to his engagement to the 33 viscounts. The following year his father died, which he inherited Lorraine and Bar. In 1471 he became Duke of Calabria.

A year later, in 1472, Nicholas was then on the other side, when he took part for the burgundy in the invasion of Picardy and the Siege of Beauvais; Charles the Bold saw him for the marriage of his daughter Mary, and the association of the parts of the Burgundian state who were not French appanage (ie the Duchy of Burgundy itself), and Lorraine - Bar would come about. 1473 Nicholas tried to conquer on their own account Metz, but the citizens of the city hit its first attempt back. In the second experiment Nicholas died unmarried and without legitimate offspring, left only an illegitimate daughter, Marguerite, batarde d'Anjou, the Jean IV de Chabannes († 1503), Count of Dammartin married.

The duchies of Lorraine and Bar went to his aunt Jolanda, who was married to Frederick II of Vaudémont, which Lorraine ( augmented by bar ) finally fell back to the house Châtenois. Anne de France later married Pierre de Beaujeu, the younger son of John II, Duke of Bourbon, Mary of Burgundy in 1477 the future Emperor Maximilian I..