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France, Charles V, returned to
Olivier V de Clisson the proceeds of four villages of the viscount of Falaise, Boulon, Mutrecy, Saint-Laurent de Condel and Saint- Aignan-de-Cramesnil. Delisle, L. Mandements et acts divers de Charles V (1364-1380), collected in the collections of the B.N.F., published or analyzed, Paris, 1874, pg 215, no 428, B.N.F., P.O. 789 act no 2.
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were in the hands of master
Guillaume de Dol. He was only, for the moment, suspended from his office. (Arche. Nat. X2A4, no 4097 G. Journa: Acts of the Parliament of Paris, Criminal Parliament. Reign of Philippe 6 de Valois. Analytical inventory of registers X2A to 5, by Brigitte Labat-Poussin, Monique Langlois and Yvonne Lanhers, Paris, 1987, pg 177)
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Senadavy, Thibaut de Morillon, Denis de Callac and other lords of Brittany, to the number of ten knights and squires, were beheaded at Paris. Four other knights of Normandy, sir William Baron, sir Henry de Malestroit, the lord of Rochetesson, and Sir Richard de Persy, were put to death upon reports.
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England, announced that, by agreement between him and Amaury de Clisson, tutor of John, son of John, Duke of Brittany and Count of Montfort and Richmond, all the villae, burgi, castra, fortalitia and portus maris of the Duchy of Brittany were
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In the year of our Grace one thousand three hundred and forty-three, on
Saturday, the second day of August, Olivier, Lord of Clisson, knight, prisoner in the Chatelet of Paris for several treasons and other crimes perpetrated by him against the king and the crown of France, and for alliances that he
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Olivier IV de Clisson's execution, several other knights were accused of similar crimes. The Lord of Malestroit and his son, the Lord of Avaugour, sir Tibaut de Morillon, Alain de Quédillac, Guillaume, Jean and Olivier de Brieux, Denis du Plessis, Jean Malart, Jean
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to be handed over to Edward 3 during the duration of the war in
Brittany. The King and Amaury de Clisson also agreed to entrust the custody of all these places to a Walter de Mauny (Peyronnet, G., The sources of the medieval history of Brittany in England, in Annales de Bretagne, t.96, no 3, pg 306
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A series of acts of restitution on returned property of
Olivier V de Clisson. From September 27, 1360, the Dauphin, Duke of Normandy, had returned to Olivier V, the future constable of France, most of the barony of Thury and the land of Tuit (Chroniques de Jean Froissart, published by Simeon Luce
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Nicolas, the King's sergeant, detained at the Chatelet in Paris for having at the request of the Lady of Bellville, the Sire de Clisson hampered the execution, would be extended until further notice. His statement was made in front of Robert Mulet and
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Philippe VI de Valois, king of France, gave
Thibaud, Lord of Matefelon, the Norman goods confiscated from Olivier IV de Clisson for crime of lese-majeste, that is to say the manor of Tuit and the forest of Cinglais (BNF, ms francais 22338, pg 160-162) On January 22, 1367, in Paris, the kings of
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The de Clissons were regional lords of lands in south western Brittany and answerable as vassals of the Duke of Brittany. They had also however married into families with French lands in Normandy, Maine and Anjou and were therefore also considered owing allegiances to the King of France. As an
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This information comes from the account of Barthelemy du Drach, treasurer of the king's wars, appointed Philippe VI de Valois, king of France, in the Bois de Vincennes, on November 21, 1338, replacing Jean Le Mire and Francois de L'Hopital, clerk of the crossbowmen. This account mentioned the
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On 26 August 1343, for her attempted bribery of the Kings sergeant, Jeanne was subsequently sentenced to banishment and confiscation of her property. She managed to evade arrest as she was being protected by Olivier's eldest son Jean, Guilaume Berard, her squire and valet, Guionnet de Fay and
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In April 1343, he was again in Vannes which was besieged by the Anglo-Breton troops commanded by the King of England in person. Olivier made an exit to push back the enemy (Argentre, B The history of Brittany, of the Roys, Dukes, Counts and Princes of icelle, Rennes 1583, pg 288). During the
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Olivier de Clisson is cited in the account of the expenses of the Raoul, count of Eu and Guines, constable of France, sent from Paris by the king France to Languedoc and Gascony as his lieutenant and his captain of May 13 on November 2, 1337 (BNF, new French acq. 7413, fol 179,
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and thereafter switched sides to the de Montfort faction. It was this Amaury who then concluded an agreement on 10 March 1342, in Westminster with Edward, the King of England and returned to Brittany with 6000 archers saving the de Montforts sieged at Hennebont.
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1876, t . VI, p LXXVII) For more details, see Norman properties: Bib. mun. de Nantes, French collection 22325, Blain titles: Arch. nat, JJ87 fol 161, no274: Registers of Charles, Dauphin and Duke of Normandy, lieutenant of the king or regent (1357-1360)
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He lost Vannes (Le Baud, P. op cit pg 287) He managed to save himself. Perhaps again with Herve de Leon, he besieged Vannes which he took over (Le Bel, Jean, Chronique, ed Viard-Deprez, Societe de l'Histoire de France, Paris, 1904-1905 chap LXI pg
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was signed between England and France. Under the perceived safe conditions of this truce, Olivier and fifteen other Breton lords were invited to a tournament on French soil, where he was subsequently arrested and taken to Paris.
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With Herve de Leon, Olivier IV will defend Vannes during the siege led by the countess of Montfort (Le Baud, Pierre, Histoire de Bretagne with the Chronicles of houses of Vitre and Laval ed d'Hozier, Paris, 1638 pg
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to Les Halles ... and there on a scaffold had his head cut off. And then from there his corpse was drawn to the gibbet of Paris and there hanged on the highest level; and his head was sent to
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made with the king of England, enemy of the king and kingdom of France, as the said Olivier ... has confessed, was by judgement of the king given at Orleans drawn from the
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In 1320, Olivier married Blanche de Bouville at the Chateau de Clisson, in the presence of Philippe Valois of France. Blanche was the daughter of Jean IV de Bouville,
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Bougraud, F. Some notes on the Lords of Clisson (1180-1320), in Bulletin de la société archaelogique et historique de Nantes et de Loire-Atlantique, 2000, pgs 112-115
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against the English. The author of Grande Chroniques de France mentions that the King of France, knights Olivier IV in this period.
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