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BOFFILLE DE JUGE (d. 1502)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 545 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JUGE (d. 1502)  , See also:French-See also:Italian adventurer and statesman, belonged to the See also:family of del Giudice, which came from See also:Amalfi, and followed the fortunes of the Angevin See also:dynasty . When See also:John of See also:Anjou, See also:duke of See also:Calabria, was conquered in See also:Italy (1461) and fled to See also:Provence, Boffille followed him . He was given by Duke John and his See also:father, See also:King Rene, the See also:charge of upholding by force of arms their claims on See also:Catalonia . See also:Louis XI., who had joined his troops to those of the princes of Anjou, attached Boffille to his own See also:person, made him his See also:chamberlain and conferred on him the See also:vice-See also:royalty of See also:Roussillon and Cerdagne (1471), together with certain important lordships, among others the countship of See also:Castres, confiscated from See also:James of See also:Armagnac, duke of See also:Nemours (1476), and the temporalities of the bishopric of Castres, confiscated from John of Armagnac . He also entrusted him with See also:diplomatic negotiations with See also:Flanders and See also:England . In 1480 Boffille married See also:Marie d' See also:Albret, See also:sister of Alain the See also:Great, thus confirming the feudal position which the king had given him in the See also:south . He was appointed as one of the See also:judges in the trial of Rene of See also:Alencon, and showed such zeal in the See also:discharge of his functions that Louis XI. rewarded him by fresh gifts . However, the See also:bishop of Castres recovered his See also:diocese (1483), and the heirs of the duke of Nemours took legal proceedings for the recovery of the countship of Castres . Boffille, with the See also:object of escaping from his enemies, applied for the command of the armies of the See also:republic of See also:Venice . His application was re-fused, and he further lost the viceroyalty of Roussillon (1491) . His daughter See also:Louise married against his will a See also:gentleman of no See also:rank, and this led to terrible family dissensions . In See also:order to disinherit his own family, Boffille de See also:Juge gave up the countship of Castres to his See also:brother-in-See also:law, Alain d'Albret (1494) .

He died in 1502 . See P . M . Perret, Boffille de Juge, See also:

comte de Castres, et la rEpublique de Venise (1891); F . See also:Pasquier, Inventaire See also:des documents concernant Boffille de Juge (1905) . (M .

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