Pierre de Chambly (c. 1260 – 18 January 1308), also known as Pierre the Fat (French: Pierre le Gras),[1] Pierre VI de Chambly,[2] or Pierre III de Chambly, was a French noble who served as chamberlain under King Philip IV of France. He was lord of Viarmes, Livry, Presles, Torigny, and (briefly) Tournan.
Life
editPierre was born around 1260,[2] the son of Pierre the Hideous, lord of Chambly (seigneur de Chambly).[1] In 1277, he married Jeanne de Machault,[2] daughter of the chamberlain Pierre de Machault.[3] Her dowry included 65 livres of rent and 33 arpents (about 16.9 hectares or 42 acres) at Chapendu which were sold for 150 livres (about 12 kg or 26 lb of fine silver) to St. Magloire in Paris in 1289.[2]
His father successively provided him with the lordships of Presles (seigneur de Presles) and, in 1285,[4] Livry (seigneur de Livry).[2] By 1288, he was also lord of Viarmes.[2] He purchased the lordship of Torigny (seigneur de Torigny) in Normandy from Queen Margaret of Naples for 9500 livres tournois (about 768 kg or 1,700 lb of fine silver).[2] In May 1293, he purchased the lordship of Tournan (seigneur de Tournan) from Jean II de Garlande; he ceded it in October of the same year to Charles, count of Valois.[5] In 1302, he gave King Philip IV special hunting privileges in the forests of Livry.[6]
During the Franco-Flemish War, he led a contingent of 6 knights and 26 squires in the 1297 campaign and fought again in 1302 after the French defeat at Courtrai.[2] While serving as grand chamberlain for Philip IV, he participated in the negotiations over the 1303 Treaty of Paris finally ending the 1294–1303 Gascon War[7] following the Battle of the Golden Spurs, allowing France to prosecute the rest of the Franco-Flemish War with greater success.
He died on 18 January 1308.[2] His father died two years later in 1310[8] and his wife 23 years later in 1331.[3] Their children were Pierre the Younger (Pierre le Jeune), who succeeded him to the lordship of Viarmes and Livry and who married Isabelle de Bourgogne; Philippe, who became lord of Livry and who married Jeanne de Trie; Jean, a knight; Pierre or Jean-Pierre, archdeacon of Thérouanne; Louis, archdeacon of Chartres; Marie; Louise, who married Robert d'Estouteville; Isabeau, who married Jean de Rouvray; Jeanne, lady of Montgobert, who married Robert de Clermont in 1312; and Marguerite, who married Gilles de Clary and lived until 1371.[2][3]
References
editCitations
edit- ^ a b Genty (1898), p. 28.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Depoin (1913), s.v. "VI. Pierre VI de Chambly".
- ^ a b c Genty (1898), p. 31.
- ^ SPCSSD (1964).
- ^ Anselme (1730), p. 35.
- ^ Genty (1898), pp. 30–31.
- ^ Rymer & al. (1745), "Tractatus Perpetuae Paciis & Amicitiae inter Angliae & Franciae Reges Firmatus & Juratus" [Treaty of Perpetual Peace and Friendship between the Kings of England & France Confirmed & Sworn].
- ^ Depoin (1913), s.v. "V. Pierre V de Chambly".
Bibliography
edit- "Les Seigneurs de Livry" [The Lords of Livry], Bulletin de la Société Historique du Raincy et du Pays d'Aulnoye [Bulletin of the Historical Society of Raincy and the Land of Aulnoye] (in French), vol. 31, Bobigny: Service du Patrimoine Culturel de la Seine-St-Denis, 1964, p. 17.
- Père Anselme (1730), Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne et de la Maison du Roi, et des Grands Barons [Genealogical and Chronological History of the Royal House of France, the Peers, Grand Officers of the Crown, and of the House of the King, and of the Great Barons] (in French), Paris.
- Depoin, Louis-Joseph (1913), "La Maison de Chambly sous les Capétiens Directs" [The House of Chambly under the Capetians Proper], Bulletin Philologique et Historique (Jusqu'a 1715) [Philogical and Historical Bulletin (up to 1715)] (in French), Paris: National Printing Office, pp. 117–162.
- Genty, A.-E. (1898), Livry et Son Abbaye... [Livry and Its Abbey] (in French), Paris: P. Mouillot.
- Rymer, Thomas; et al., eds. (1745), Foedera, Conventiones, Literae, et Cujuscunque Generis Acta Publica inter Reges Angliae et Alios Quosvis Imperatores, Reges, Pontifices, Principes, vel Communitates... [Treaties, Conventions, Letters, and Public Proceedings of Any Kind between the Kings of England and Any Other Emperors, Kings, Popes, Princes, or Communities...] (in Latin and French), vol. I, Pt. 4 (3rd ed.), The Hague: Jean Neaulme, pp. 24–29.