Comte Guy de Montfort, XIV (XII-XIII)

1406 - 1486  (80 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Guy de Montfort
  Prefix	Comte
  Suffix	XIV (XII-XIII)
  Birth	28 Jan 1406
  Gender	Male
  Death	2 Sep 1486
  Burial	Saint-Thugal, Laval
  Siblings	2 Siblings
  + 1. Comte Guy de Montfort, XIV (XII-XIII),   b. 28 Jan 1406   d. 2 Sep 1486  (Age 80 years) ▻ Isabelle de Bretagne,  m. 1 Oct 1430 ;   Françoise de Dinan,  m. Feb 1451 + 2. Jeanne de Montfort-Laval   d. 18 Dec 1468 ▻ Comte Louis de Bourbon + 3. Catherine de Laval   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Guy III de Chauvigny
  Person ID	I472504	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	24 Mar 2008

  
  

  Father	Comte Guy de Montfort, XIII (XII),   b. Abt 1385   d. 12 Aug 1414, Rhodes (Age 29 years)
  Mother	Comtesse Anne de Montmorency de Laval,   b. 1385   d. 28 Jan 1466, Vitre, Bretagne, France (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	22 Jan 1404
  Family ID	F66187	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Isabelle de Bretagne,   b. 1411   d. 14 Jan 1444 (Age 33 years)
  Marriage	1 Oct 1430
  Children	+ 1. Louise de Laval,   b. 13 Jan 1440-1441, Montfort-Sur-Risle, Eure, Normandy, France d. 1480 (Age 38 years) + 2. Yolande de Laval   d. Yes, date unknown + 3. Jean de Laval,   b. 14 Feb 1437, Redon d. 14 Aug 1476 (Age 39 years)
  Family ID	F188004	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Mar 2008

  
  

  Family 2	Françoise de Dinan,   b. 20 Dec 1436   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Feb 1451
  Family ID	F233063	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2007

  
  

• Notes

  Comte de Laval eldest son of Jean de Montfort, seigneur de Kergolay, and Anne de Laval. His father became Guy XIII de Laval by the terms of his marriage contract with Anne, who was the daughter of Guy XII (Jean), Sire de Laval, de Vitré et de Gavre, and Jeanne de Laval, Dame de Châtillon et d'Attichy, the widow of the great French military leader Bertrand Du Guesclin (1320-1380), Constable or France. On 1 October 1430 Guy married Isabelle de Bretagne, daughter of Jean VI, Duc de Bretagne and Jeanne de France, who was the daughter of Charles VI 'the Mad', King of France and Isabeau of Bavaria. Guy and Isabelle had ten children, of whom three would have progeny: Yolande, who married Guillaume d'Harcourt, Baron de Montgommery; Louise, who married Jean III de Brosse, dit de Bretagne, Comte de Penthièvre et de Boussac; and Jean, who married Jeanne du Perrier, Comtesse de Quintin, Dame du Perrier. On 8 June 1429 at Selles-en-Berry (Selles-sur-Cher), Guy joined the royal army which reunited Jeanne d'Arc and the duc d'Alençon to win the liberation of the Loire Valley after lifting the siege of Orléans. In a letter to his mother he set down a vivid description of Jeanne, for whom he developed a strong admiration. With his brother André de Laval, Sire de Lohéac et de Châtillon, he followed the king to Reims, and was one of the six pairs of official witnesses at the coronation of Charles VII, replacing the count of Flanders (who was duke of Burgundy). Among the favours granted by the king for the occasion, the land of Laval was raised to a county, and in 1430 Guy was made governor of Lagny. In 1439 Guy negotiated the draft for the Treaty of Gravelines between France and England. He fought in the Battle of Formigny in 1449. He became Lieutenant-General of the duchy of Brittany in 1472. Isabelle having died in 1442, at Vitré in February 1451 Guy married Françoise de Dinan, Dame de Châteaubriant, daughter of Jacques de Dinan, Seigneur de Montafilant, de Châteaubriant, and Catherine de Rohan, and widow of Gille de Bretagne, the youngest son of Jean VI, Duc de Bretagne. In marrying Françoise, Guy acquired no rights to the barony of Châteaubriant. Guy and Françoise had three sons, Pierre, François and Jacques. King Louis XI established a court of public accounts at Laval in 1463. The following year the king authorised Guy, 'his cousin', to add the quartier of France to his arms, to commemorate that Jeanne de France, his first mother-in-law, wife of Jean VI, Duc de Bretagne, was a daughter of Charles VI; also the quartiers of Evreux, to commemorate Jeanne d'Evreux, queen of Navarre, grandmother of Isabelle de Bretagne, Guy's first wife; and the quartiers of Vitré. A further honour granted by Louis XI in 1482 was to grant full powers to the county of Laval in separating it from the county of Maine. The county of Laval was made a direct dependency of the French crown. To assert better his precedence over the Vicomte de Rohan at the Parliament of Brittany, Guy claimed, like his father, to descend from Conan and Ponthus, the ancient kings of Amorique (Amorica). In 1467 he had inserted in his 'Chartre des Usements de Brécilien' (charter of usage rights for the forest of Brécilien), which set out the seignorial rights to which the inhabitants of the forest were subject, mention of the contests of Ponthus, thereby presenting as historical fact a work of romantic fiction, _Le roman de Ponthus et la Belle Sidoine_ ('The Story of Ponthus and the Beautiful Sidonia') in the style of the Arthurian legends, written in the 14th century. Guy died 2 September 1486. He is buried at the collegiate church of Saint-Thugal at Laval. His daughter Jeanne was the wife of King René I of Anjou. His son François from his second marriage was Grand Maitre de France (head of the royal household), and Pierre, one of his sons from his first marriage, was archbishop of Reims