Jean de Dunois

Jean De Dunois

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Jean de Dunois

John of Orléans, Count of Dunois (French Jean d'Orléans, comte de Dunois, also known as John of Orléans and Bastard of Orléans) (November 23, 1402 – November 24, 1468) was the illegitimate son of Louis d'Orléans

Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans

Louis I of Valois was Duke of Orl?ans from 1392 to his death. He was also Count of Valois, Duke of Touraine , Count of Blois , Counts and dukes of Angouleme , P?rigord, Dreux and Soissons....
(Duc d'Orléans 1372-1407) by Mariette d'Enghien.

The term "Bastard of Orléans" (bâtard d'Orléans) was the usual name for most of his career.

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Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans

Cadet branch

Cadet branch is a term in genealogy to describe the lineage of the descendants of the younger sons of a monarch or patriarch. In the ruling dynasty and nobility families of much of Europe and Asia, the family's major assets – titles, realms, fiefs, property and income – have historically been passed from a father to his firstborn...
of the royal family during his half-brother's captivity.

His father died in 1407. His half legitimate brother became an English prisoner at the Battle of Agincourt

Battle of Agincourt

The Battle of Agincourt was an English victory against a much larger French army in the Hundred Years' War. The battle occurred on Friday 25 October 1415 ...
and remained so for several decades. This left him the only adult male of the house of Orléans.

He joined the civil war in France in the time of Charles VI

Charles VI of France

Charles VI , called the Well-loved and the Mad , was the List of French monarchs from 1380 to 1399, as a member of the House of Valois....
on the side of the Armagnacs, and was captured by the Burgundians

Burgundians

File:Roman Empire 125.svgThe Burgundians were an East Germanic language Germanic tribes which may have emigrated from mainland Scandinavia to the island of Bornholm, whose old form in Old Norse still was Burgundarholmr , and from there to mainland Europe....
in 1418. Released in 1420, he entered the service of the Dauphin Charles

Charles VII of France

File:Charles VII Franc a cheval 1422 1423.jpgCharles VII , called the Victorious or the Well-Served , was List of French monarchs from 1422 to his death, though he was initially opposed by Henry VI of England, whose Regent ruled much of France from Paris....
, fighting in the Hundred Years' War

Hundred Years' War

The Hundred Years' War was a prolonged conflict lasting from 1337 to 1453 between two royal houses for the French throne, which was vacant with the extinction of the senior House of Capet line of French kings....
against English forces.

The future count Dunois led the French defenses at the siege of Orléans

Battle of Orléans

Battle of Orl?ans may refer to*The Siege of Orl?ans of the Hundred Years War*The Siege of Orl?ans of the French Wars of Religion *The Battle of Orleans of the Franco-Prussian War...
. Together with Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc

Saint Joan of Arc also known as the Maid of Orleans, is a national heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, claiming divine guidance, and was indirectly responsible for the coronation of Charles VII of Franc...
he relieved the siege. He joined her on the campaigns of 1429 and remained active after her death.

Titles

Lord of Valbonais (1421–1468)
Count of Mortain (1424–1425)
Viscount of Saint-Sauveur
Count of Périgord (1430–1439)
Count of Dunois (1439–1468)
Count of Longueville (1443–1468)

Marriages and progeny

He married Marie Louvet (d. 1426) in April 1422 at Bourges

Bourges

Bourges is a commune in France in central France on the Y?vre river. It is the capital of the Departments of France of Cher and also was the capital of the former provinces of France of Berry ....
, by whom he had no children.

He married a second time to Marie of Harcourt (d. 1464), Lady of Parthenay October 26, 1439 and had two children:

François d'Orléans-Longueville (1447–1491), Count of Dunois, Tancarville, Longueville, and Montgomery, Baron of Varenguebec, Viscount of Melun, Chamberlain of France, Governor of Normandy and the Dauphiné, Constable and Chamberlain of Normandy, married July 2, 1466 to Agnès de Savoie (1445–1508)
Catherine d'Orléans (1449–1501), married May 14, 1468 to John VII of Saarbrucken (1430–1492), Count of Roucy