John VIII, Count of Vendôme

John VIII
Count of Vendôme
Born1425
Died6 January 1477(1477-01-06) (aged 51–52)
Lavardin
SpouseIsabelle de Beauvau
IssueJeanne
Catherine
Jeanne of Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon
Renée
François Count of Vendôme
Louis
Charlotte
Isabelle
Illegitimate:
Louis
Jaques
HouseBourbon-Vendôme
FatherLouis, Count of Vendôme
MotherJeanne de Laval

John VIII de Bourbon (1425 – 6 January 1477) was Count of Vendôme from 1446 until his death.

Life

John was the son of Louis, Count of Vendôme and Jeanne de Laval.[1] As a courtier of King Charles VII of France, he fought the English in Normandy and Guyenne. He attached himself to King Louis XI, but was not in royal favor. He withdrew to the Château of Lavardin and completed its construction.

Marriage and issue

In 1454, he married Isabelle de Beauvau,[2] daughter of Louis de Beauvau, Marshal of Provence[3] and Marguerite de Chambley. They had:

Jean also had two illegitimate sons:

Ancestors

References

  1. ^ Barbier 2002, p. 239.
  2. ^ a b Du Tillet 1994, p. 220.
  3. ^ Favier 2008, p. table 6.
  4. ^ Durand 2000, p. 39.
  5. ^ Antonetti 2000, p. 45.
  6. ^ Ward, Prothero & Leathes 1911, p. vii.
  7. ^ Antonetti 2000, p. 39.
  8. ^ Müller 2022, p. 120.

Sources

  • Barbier, Jean Paul (2002). Ma Bibliotheque Poetique (in French). Vol. 3–4. Librairie Droz.
  • Antonetti, Guy (2000). "Les Princes Etrangers". In Bardet, Jean-Pierre (ed.). Etat et société en France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (in French). Presses l'Universite de Paris-Sorbonne.
  • Durand, Yves (2000). Etat et société en France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles: Mélanges offerts à Yves Durand. Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne. ISBN 9782840501510.
  • Du Tillet, Jean (1994). Brown, Elizabeth A. R. (ed.). Jean Du Tillet and the French wars of religion: five tracts, 1562-1569. Binghamton University Press.
  • Favier, Jean (2008). Le Roi René (in French). Fayard.
  • Müller, Annalena (2022). From the Cloister to the State: Fontevraud and the Making of Bourbon France. Routledge.
  • Potter, David (1995). Keen, Maurice (ed.). A History of France, 1460–1560: The Emergence of a Nation State. Macmillan.
  • Ward, A.W.; Prothero, G.W.; Leathes, Stanley, eds. (1911). The Cambridge Modern History. Cambridge University Press.


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