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Jean de Vienne (1341 – 1396) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 knight
Knight

File:Gothic armor 2.jpgKnight is the term for a social position originating in the Middle Ages. In the Commonwealth of Nations, knighthood is a non-heritable form of gentry....
, general
General

A General officer is an Officer of high military rank. The term or equivalent is used by nearly every country in the world. General can be used as a generic term for all grades of general officer, or it can specifically refer to a single rank that is just called general....
 and admiral
Admiral

Admiral is the military rank, or part of the name of the ranks, of the highest naval officers. It is usually considered a full admiral and above Vice Admiral and below Admiral of the Fleet/Fleet Admiral....
 during 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....
.

de Vienne was born at Dole
Dole, Jura

Dole is a Communes of France in the Jura Departments of France in Franche-Comt? in eastern France, of which it is a sub-prefecture....
, in what is now Franche-Comté
Franche-Comté

Franche-Comt? the former County of Burgundy, as distinct from the neighbouring Duchy of Burgundy, is an regions of France and a Provinces of France of eastern France....
. As a young nobleman, he started his military career at the young age of 9, and was made a knight at 21. Aged 24, he was made Captain-General for the Franche-Comté
Franche-Comté

Franche-Comt? the former County of Burgundy, as distinct from the neighbouring Duchy of Burgundy, is an regions of France and a Provinces of France of eastern France....
.

In 1373, Charles V
Charles V of France

Charles V , called the Wise, was List of French monarchs from 1364 to his death and a member of the House of Valois. His reign marked a high point for France during the Hundred Years' War, with his armies recovering much of the territory ceded to England at the Treaty of Br?tigny....
 made him Amiral de France. He reorganised the Navy, started an important programme of construction, created a coast guard, navigation police, organised watches along the coasts, and attributed licences for building and selling of ships.

Jean de Vienne was one of the first to understand that naval operation only could do harm to England, and he conducted several expeditions to Rye and Wight.

Between 1381 and 1385, he fought against the Flemish
County of Flanders

The County of Flanders was a historical region in the Low Countries.It consisted not only of the two actual Belgium provinces of East-Flanders and West-Flanders but also much of the present-day France d?partement of the Nord , in parts of which there is still a minority speaking the French Flemish dialect of Dutch language, and the sout...
, notably during the Battle of Roosebeke
Battle of Roosebeke

The Battle of Roosebeke took place on November 27, 1382 on the Goudberg between a County of Flanders army under Philip van Artevelde and a French army under Louis II of Flanders who had called upon the help of the French king Charles VI of France after he had suffered a defeat during the Battle of Beverhoutsveld....
.






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Jean de Vienne (1341 – 1396) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 knight
Knight

File:Gothic armor 2.jpgKnight is the term for a social position originating in the Middle Ages. In the Commonwealth of Nations, knighthood is a non-heritable form of gentry....
, general
General

A General officer is an Officer of high military rank. The term or equivalent is used by nearly every country in the world. General can be used as a generic term for all grades of general officer, or it can specifically refer to a single rank that is just called general....
 and admiral
Admiral

Admiral is the military rank, or part of the name of the ranks, of the highest naval officers. It is usually considered a full admiral and above Vice Admiral and below Admiral of the Fleet/Fleet Admiral....
 during 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....
.

Biography

Jean de Vienne was born at Dole
Dole, Jura

Dole is a Communes of France in the Jura Departments of France in Franche-Comt? in eastern France, of which it is a sub-prefecture....
, in what is now Franche-Comté
Franche-Comté

Franche-Comt? the former County of Burgundy, as distinct from the neighbouring Duchy of Burgundy, is an regions of France and a Provinces of France of eastern France....
. As a young nobleman, he started his military career at the young age of 9, and was made a knight at 21. Aged 24, he was made Captain-General for the Franche-Comté
Franche-Comté

Franche-Comt? the former County of Burgundy, as distinct from the neighbouring Duchy of Burgundy, is an regions of France and a Provinces of France of eastern France....
.

In 1373, Charles V
Charles V of France

Charles V , called the Wise, was List of French monarchs from 1364 to his death and a member of the House of Valois. His reign marked a high point for France during the Hundred Years' War, with his armies recovering much of the territory ceded to England at the Treaty of Br?tigny....
 made him Amiral de France. He reorganised the Navy, started an important programme of construction, created a coast guard, navigation police, organised watches along the coasts, and attributed licences for building and selling of ships.

Jean de Vienne was one of the first to understand that naval operation only could do harm to England, and he conducted several expeditions to Rye and Wight.

Between 1381 and 1385, he fought against the Flemish
County of Flanders

The County of Flanders was a historical region in the Low Countries.It consisted not only of the two actual Belgium provinces of East-Flanders and West-Flanders but also much of the present-day France d?partement of the Nord , in parts of which there is still a minority speaking the French Flemish dialect of Dutch language, and the sout...
, notably during the Battle of Roosebeke
Battle of Roosebeke

The Battle of Roosebeke took place on November 27, 1382 on the Goudberg between a County of Flanders army under Philip van Artevelde and a French army under Louis II of Flanders who had called upon the help of the French king Charles VI of France after he had suffered a defeat during the Battle of Beverhoutsveld....
. In 1385, he landed in Scotland
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
 with 180 ships to invade England, After 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....
 succeeded his father Charles V to the Throne of France, the Navy tended to decay, since Charles VI did not share his father's concern for naval affairs. Probably disappointed, Jean de Vienne participated in the Siege of Mahdia
Siege of Mahdia

The Siege of Mahdia was the main event of the Tunisian crusade of 1390. Froissart's Chronicles is a chief document describing what was one of the last crusades....
 and joined in the crusade of King Sigismund of Hungary against the Turks
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
. He was killed during the battle of Nicopolis
Battle of Nicopolis

The Battle of Nicopolis took place on September 25, 1396, between the Ottoman Empire versus an allied force from Hungary, the Holy Roman Empire, France, Wallachia, Poland, the Knights Hospitaller, the Old Swiss Confederacy, the Republic of Venice, the Republic of Genoa and the Knights of St....
, in Bulgaria
Bulgaria

The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
.

Ships

Several ships of the French Navy
French Navy

The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale , is the maritime arm of the French military. It consists of a full range of vessels, from patrol boats to guided missile frigates, and includes one nuclear aircraft carrier and ten nuclear submarines ....
 were named after Jean de Vienne; among them:
  • a La Galissonniere class cruiser: completed 1937, scuttled at Toulon in November 1942
  • the F70 type
    Georges Leygues class frigate

    The Georges Leygues class is a class of anti-submarine frigates of the French Navy. They are polyvalent , due to their Exocet and Crotale missile complement, making them especially suitable for defense of strategic positions, demonstrations, or highseas escorts....
     frigate Jean de Vienne
    FS Jean de Vienne

    The Jean de Vienne is a Georges Leygues class frigate anti-submarine frigate of the French French Navy. She is the third French vessel named after the XIVth Century admiral Jean de Vienne....
     (D643), completed 1984 and currently in service


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