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ENGUERRAND DE MARIGNY (1260-1315)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 718 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARIGNY (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 See also: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 .

He addressed the estates See also:

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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