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DUKE OF JOHN BERRY (1340-1416)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 809 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DUKE OF See also:JOHN See also:BERRY (1340-1416)  , third son of See also:John II., See also:king of See also:France and Bonne of See also:Luxemburg, was See also:born on the 3oth of See also:November 1340 at See also:Vincennes . He was created See also:count of See also:Poitiers in 1356, and was made the king's See also:lieutenant in See also:southern France, though the real See also:power rested chiefly with John of See also:Armagnac, whose daughter Jeanne he married in 136o . The loss of his southern possessions by the treaty of Bretigny was compensated by the fiefs of See also:Auvergne and See also:Berry, with the See also:rank of peer of France . The See also:duke went to See also:England in 136o as a See also:hostage for the fulfilment of the treaty of Bretigny, returning to France in 1367 on the pretext of See also:collecting his See also:ransom . He took no leading See also:part in the See also:war against the See also:English, his energies being largely occupied with the See also:satisfaction of his See also:artistic and luxurious tastes . For this See also:reason perhaps his See also:brother See also:Charles V. assigned him no See also:share in the See also:government during the minority of Charles VI . He received, however, the See also:province of See also:Languedoc . The See also:peasant revolt of the Tuchins and Coquins, as the insurgents were called, was suppressed with See also:great harshness, and the duke exacted from the states of Languedoc assembled at See also:Lyons a See also:fine of £15,000 . He fought at Rosebeke in 1382 against the Flemings and helped to suppress the Parisian revolts . By a See also:series of delays he caused the failure of the See also:naval expedition prepared at See also:Sluys against England in 1386, and a second See also:accusation of military See also:negligence led to disgrace of the royal princes and the temporary See also:triumph of the tnarmousets, as the advisers of the See also:late king were nicknamed . Charles VI. visited Languedoc in 1389-1390, and enquired into his See also:uncle's government . The duke was deprived of the government of Languedoc, and his See also:agent, Betizac, was burnt .

When in 1401 he was restored, he delegated his authority in the province, where he was still hated, to See also:

Bernard d'Armagnac . In 1396 he negotiated a truce with See also:Richard II. of England, and his See also:marriage with the princess See also:Isabella of France . He tried to mediate between his brother See also:Philip the Bold of See also:Burgundy and his See also:nephew See also:Louis, duke of See also:Orleans, and later between John " sans Peur " of Burgundy and Orleans . He See also:broke with John after the See also:murder of Orleans, though he tried to prevent See also:civil war, and only finally joined the Armagnac party in 1410 . In 1413 he resumed his role of mediator, and was for a See also:short See also:time See also:tutor to the dauphin . He died in See also:Paris on the 15th of See also:June 1416, leaving vast treasures of See also:jewelry, See also:objects of See also:art, and especially of illuminated See also:MSS., many of which have been preserved . He decorated the Sainte Chapelle at See also:Bourges; he built the Hotel de See also:Neale in Paris, and palaces at Poitiers, Bourges, Mehun-sur-Yevre and elsewhere . See also L . See also:Raynal, Histoire du Berry (Bourges, 1845) ; " See also:Jean, due de Berry," in S . Luce, La France See also:pendant la guerre de Cent Ans (1890), vol. i . ; Toulgoet-Treanna, in Mem. de la See also:Soc. See also:des See also:anti'uaires du centre, vol. xvii . (189o) .

His beautiful illuminated Livre d heures was reproduced (Paris, fol . 1904) by P . Durrieu .

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