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MARIGNY, ENGUERRAND DE (1260-1315)

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MARIGNY, ENGUERRAND DE (1260-1315) , See also:French See also:chamberlain, and See also:minister of See also:Philip IV. the See also:Fair, was See also:born at Lyonsla-Foret in See also:Normandy, of an old See also:Norman See also:family of the smaller baronage called Le Portier, which took the name of Marigny about 1200. Enguerrand entered the service of See also:Hugues de Bonville, chamberlain and secretary of Philip IV., as a See also:squire, and then was attached to the See also:household of See also:Queen Jeanne, who made him one of the executors of her will. He married her See also:god-daughter, Jeanne de St See also:Martin. In 1298 he received the custody of the See also:castle of See also:Issoudun. After the See also:death of See also:Pierre Flotte and Hugues de Bonville at the See also:battle of See also:Mons-en-Pevele in 1304, he became Philip's See also:grand chamberlain and See also:chief minister. In 1306 he was sent to preside over the See also:exchequer of Normandy. He received numerous gifts of See also:land and See also:money from Philip as well as a See also:pension from See also:Edward II. of See also:England. Possessed of an ingratiating manner, politic, learned and astute, he acted as an able See also:instrument in carrying out Philip's plans, and received corresponding confidence. He shared the popular odium which Philip incurred by debasing the coinage. He acted as the See also:agent of Philip in his contest with See also:Louis de See also:Nevers, the son of See also:Robert See also:count of See also:Flanders, imprisoning Louis and forcing Robert to surrender See also:Lille, Douay and See also:Bethune. He obtained for his See also:half-See also:brother Philip de Marigny in 1301 the bishopric of Cambray, and in 1309 the archbishopric of See also:Sens, and for his brother See also:Jean in 1312 the bishopric of See also:Beauvais. Still another relative, See also:Nicolas de Freauville, became the See also:king's See also:confessor and a See also:cardinal.

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general in 1314 and succeeded in getting further taxes for the Flemish See also:war, incurring at the same See also:time much See also:ill will. This soon came to a See also:head when the princes of the See also:blood, eager to fight the Flemings, were disappointed by his negotiating a See also:peace in See also:September. He was accused of receiving bribes, and See also:Charles of See also:Valois denounced him to the king himself; but Philip stood by him and the attack was of no avail. The death of Philip IV. on the 29th of See also:November 1314 was a See also:signal for a reaction against his policy. The feudal party, whose See also:power the king had tried to limit, turned on his ministers and chiefly on his chamberlain. Enguerrand was arrested by Louis X. at the instigation of Charles of Valois, and twenty-eight articles of See also:accusation including charges of receiving bribes were brought against him. He was refused a See also:hearing; but his accounts were correct, and Louis was inclined to spare him anything more than banishment to the See also:island of See also:Cyprus. Charles then brought forward a See also:charge of sorcery which was more effectual. He was condemned at once and hanged on the public gallows at Mon tfaucon, protesting that in all his acts he had only been carrying out Philip's commands (See also:April 30, 1315). Louis X. seems to have repented of his treatment of Marigny, and See also:left legacies to his See also:children. When his chief enemy, Charles of Valois, See also:lay dying in 1325, he was stricken with remorse and ordered See also:alms to'be distributed among the poor of See also:Paris with a See also:request to "pray for the souls of Enguerrand and Charles." Marigny founded the collegiate See also:church of Notre See also:Dame d'Escoes near See also:Rouen in 1313. He was twice married, first to Jeanne de St Martin, by whom he had three children, Louis, See also:Marie and Isabelle (who married Robert, son of Robert de Tancarville); and the second time to Alips de Mons.

See contemporary chroniclers in vols. 'xx. to See also:

xxiii. of D. Bouquet, Historiens de la See also:France; P. See also:Clement, Trois drames historiques (Paris, 1857) ; Ch. Dufayard, La Reaction feodale sous See also:les fils de Philippe le See also:Bel, in the Revue historique (1894, liv. 241—272) and lv. 241—290.

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