Andre de Lohéac

Andre de Lohéac , (1408, Castle of Montsûrs - † 1486), lord of Montjean, Lohéac and of Retz (of the chief of its wife), admiral then Marshal of France.

Guy XIV of Laval and its brother André de Lohéac had the characteristic to be vassal at the same time Duché of Brittany as of the Crown of France.

Biography

Origin

He is the son of Jean de Montfort (1385 - 1415), known as Guy XIII of Laval , and Anne of Laval (1385 - 1466). He was by his mother grandson of the constable Of Guesclin .

Jean of Laval X Isabeau de Tinteniac │ ├──> Jeanne of Laval │ X Bertrand of Guesclin │ X Guy XII of Laval │ │ │ └──> Anne of Laval (1385-1466) │ X Guy XIII of Laval │ │ │ └──> Guy XIV of Laval │ └──> Andre de Lohéac │ └──> Louis of Laval

Military career

During the War One hundred Year old, armed with the sword of the constable, it makes his first weapons against the English as of the fifteen years age. With the Battle of Brossinière close to Bourgon in Mayenne, it is armed knight at once with bataille.

Companion of Jeanne d' Arc

It joined the June 8th 1429, with Saddle-in-Berry (Selles-sur-Cher), the royal army which joins together Jeanne d' Arc and Jean II, duke of Alençon, to continue the release of the Loire Valley after the lifting of the Siège of Orleans. It is among other that which is distinguished with Jargeau, Beaugency, and especially with Patay where it fights with the avant-garde.

The sacring of Charles VII

With his brother Guy XIV of Laval, it follows the sovereign to Rheims to attend the sacring of Charles VII of France.

Charles VII names it admiral in 1437, then Marshal of France in 1439. He is distinguished with the catches from Pontoise, of the Mans.

Son-in-law of Gilles de Rais

It Marie in 1451 with Marie de Rais, girl of Gilles de Rais and widow of Prigent de Coëtivy.

Relations with Louis XI

He serves Charles VII in all his battles, including against the Dauphin (1456), future Louis XI. On the beginning of its reign, this last suspends it its load of Marshal of France but its favor little of time returns to him afterwards. in 1465. In 1468, Louis XI names it admiral, lieutenant-general of the government of Paris, and governor of Picardy; it decrees to him in 1469 the collar of the recent whole Ordre of Saint-Michel. In 1472, it resists with sucès the attacks of Charles Bold the Beauvais, defended well by its inhabitants with the head of which Jeanne Hachette is illustrated). Louis XI came in August 1472 to require hospitality of the marshal behind thick walls of the Château of Montjean.

Andre de Lohéac dies the December 24th 1486 with Laval without posterity.

Source

Emile Cesbron, Jeanne d' Arc and Low-Maine , extracted the religious Week of the diocese from Laval, Laval, Goupil, 1909, 30 p.;

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