Jacques de Luxembourg, Seigneur de Richebourg

Jacques de Luxembourg as Knight in the Order of the Golden Fleece (Den Haag, KB, 76 E 10, fol. 71r)

Jacques de Luxembourg, Seigneur de Richebourg (1426 – Nantes, 20 August 1487) was a French noble who served Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy and later King Louis XI of France.

Life

He was the third son of Peter I, Count of Saint-Pol and Margaret of Baux.

Jacques was knighted after the Battle of Gavere on 23 July 1453. In the following years, he served Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy as an army commander. In 1468 he was awarded the Order of the Golden Fleece.
When his brother Louis de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol, Constable of France was executed for treason in 1475, Jacques was put in a French prison. He was only released 10 years later, when he agreed to serve the King of France. He received the French Order of Saint Michael.

He married firstly Jeanne, comtesse de Sarrewerden and Moers, and secondly Isabelle de Roubaix (1415–1498), daughter of Pierre de Roubaix. He had 2 sons, who died young and 3 daughters.
He was succeeded by his daughter Isabelle de Luxembourg, who married Jean III de Melun (1460–1504).

Sources

• Raphael de Smedt (Hrsg.): Les chevaliers de l’ordre de la Toison d’or au XVe siècle: notices bio-bibliographiques. Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-631-36017-7, S. 157–159 (Kieler Werkstücke. D 3).
• Jacques Paviot, Jacques de Luxembourg. Politic et culture chez un grand seigneur du XVe siècle, in: D. Boutet u. J. Verger (Hrsg.), Penser le pouvoir au Moyen Age (VIIIe–XVe siècle). Études offertes à Françoise Autrand, Paris 2000, S. 327-341.