Individual Details
Duke Jean I of Lorraine
(Fen 1346 - 27 Sep 1390)
Jean was born in February 1346, the son of Raoul, duke of Lorraine, and his second wife Marguerite de Valois. He was an infant of six months when he succeeded his father, killed at the Battle of Crécy. During his long minority the regency was in the hands of his mother and Eberhard II 'der Greiner', Graf von Württemberg. In December 1353 Jean did homage for the duchy to Emperor Karl IV, who made him lieutenant-general of the empire in the Moselle county.
Jean Participated in the _Drang nach Osten_ (push to the East) and its related crusades at the side of the Teutonic Knights against Lithuania in 1356 and again in 1365.
On 19 September 1356, aged only ten, he fought for Philippe VI, king of France in the Battle of Poitiers, as his father had at Crécy, and where the French chivalry was mowed down by English longbow men as before. However, unlike his father, he survived to fight again, on the side of the Dauphin Charles (the future Charles V) in putting down the Parisian rebellion of Etienne Marcel. He attended Charles' coronation on 19 May 1364 in Reims, strengthening the ties to France which had been steadily building in Lorraine for the preceding century.
In 1361 Jean married Sofie von Württemberg, daughter of his former guardian Eberhard II, Graf von Württemberg, and Gräfin Elisabeth von Henneberg-Schleusingen. They had four children of whom two sons and a daughter would have progeny. Sofie died in 1363, and Jean married Margarete von Looz, but the marriage did not result in progeny.
He entered the War of the Breton Succession, as his father had, to aid his uncle Charles de Châtillon de Blois against Jean V de Montfort. At the Battle of Auray on 29 September 1364, with Jean V the undisputed duke of Brittany and Charles de Blois dead on the field, Jean and the great Breton knight Bertrand du Guesclin were both taken prisoner.
Jean continued to aid kings Charles V and Charles VI to reconquer the provinces lost to the English in the Treaty of Brétigny, but in his latter years he distanced himself from the French court. This was partly due to the 'free companies' (armies of Mercenaries) ravaging his lands and partly to the royal officials who attempted to litigate the relationship between Jean (an imperial vassal) and his vassals. In the end he reached a rapprochement with Philippe 'the Bold', duke of Burgundy.
Jean died in Paris on 27 September 1390, defending himself against a charge of abuse of power by the people of Neufchâteau in Lorraine.
Source: Leo van de Pas
Jean Participated in the _Drang nach Osten_ (push to the East) and its related crusades at the side of the Teutonic Knights against Lithuania in 1356 and again in 1365.
On 19 September 1356, aged only ten, he fought for Philippe VI, king of France in the Battle of Poitiers, as his father had at Crécy, and where the French chivalry was mowed down by English longbow men as before. However, unlike his father, he survived to fight again, on the side of the Dauphin Charles (the future Charles V) in putting down the Parisian rebellion of Etienne Marcel. He attended Charles' coronation on 19 May 1364 in Reims, strengthening the ties to France which had been steadily building in Lorraine for the preceding century.
In 1361 Jean married Sofie von Württemberg, daughter of his former guardian Eberhard II, Graf von Württemberg, and Gräfin Elisabeth von Henneberg-Schleusingen. They had four children of whom two sons and a daughter would have progeny. Sofie died in 1363, and Jean married Margarete von Looz, but the marriage did not result in progeny.
He entered the War of the Breton Succession, as his father had, to aid his uncle Charles de Châtillon de Blois against Jean V de Montfort. At the Battle of Auray on 29 September 1364, with Jean V the undisputed duke of Brittany and Charles de Blois dead on the field, Jean and the great Breton knight Bertrand du Guesclin were both taken prisoner.
Jean continued to aid kings Charles V and Charles VI to reconquer the provinces lost to the English in the Treaty of Brétigny, but in his latter years he distanced himself from the French court. This was partly due to the 'free companies' (armies of Mercenaries) ravaging his lands and partly to the royal officials who attempted to litigate the relationship between Jean (an imperial vassal) and his vassals. In the end he reached a rapprochement with Philippe 'the Bold', duke of Burgundy.
Jean died in Paris on 27 September 1390, defending himself against a charge of abuse of power by the people of Neufchâteau in Lorraine.
Source: Leo van de Pas
Events
| Death | 27 Sep 1390 | Paris, France | |||
| Marriage | Sofie von Württenberg | ||||
| Birth | Fen 1346 |
Families
| Spouse | Sofie von Württenberg (1340 - 1369) |
| Child | Duke Charles I of Lorraine (1364 - 1431) |
| Father | Duke Raoul (le Vaillant) of Lorraine (1318 - 1346) |
| Mother | Marie de Chatillon ( - 1379) |