Grailly, Jean III de, Lord De Buch

Grailly, Jean III de, Lord De Buch

▪ French soldier
died 1376/77, Paris, France

      vassal in Gascony under King Edward III of England and his son Edward, the Black Prince. Viewed as the ideal of 14th-century chivalry, Jean was extolled by the contemporary chronicler Jean Froissart (Froissart, Jean) for his valour, courage, and loyalty.

      Jean's great-grandfather, the Savoyard noble Jean I de Grailly (or Grilly), went to England and was on three occasions appointed seneschal of Gascony for Henry III and Edward I, who gave him the viscountcies of Benauges and Castillon. Jean III's father, Jean II de Grailly, acquired the captalat of Buch (i.e., the principal seigniory in the land of Buch, the chief town of which was La Teste de Buch). Jean's mother was Blanche de Foix. Jean de Grailly remained steadfastly loyal to Edward III, who increased his hereditary possessions by the addition of the county of Bigorre and made him a knight of the Order of the Garter.

      In 1355 Jean headed a delegation of Gascons to ask Edward III to send a member of his family to govern Gascony. The following year he played an important role in the victory of the Black Prince over the French at Poitiers; he sailed back to England with the prince and the captured French king John II. After returning from fighting in Prussia in 1357, Jean rescued the Duchess of Normandy and the Duchess of Orléans from the peasant rebels of the Jacquerie.

      Jean then became a mercenary for the king of Navarre, who was fighting against the king of France. Rejoining the English king, Jean in 1366 routed a division of Spanish troops at Navarrete, and in 1370 he saved the city of Lalinde from capture after he had discovered a plot to hand it over to the French. He defeated a small French force that was attacking Soubise in 1371, but a larger French army surprised him the same night and he was taken prisoner.

      Transported to Paris, Jean was received with courtesy by Charles V of France. The king refused to ransom him, however, and Jean refused to serve the French king, remaining loyal to the English. He was, therefore, imprisoned in the Temple Prison in Paris, where he died.

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