# Antoine de Chabannes

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French Military Commander and Count of Dammartin

Antoine de Chabannes Count of Dammartin, Lord of Puisaye, etc. Antoine de Chabannes depicted in the Statuts de l'ordre de Saint-Michel [fr], attributed to Jean Fouquet, ca. 1470 Born 1408 Charlus-le-Pailhoux Died (1488-12-25)December 25, 1488 Dammartin-en-Goële Buried Dammartin-en-Goële (body); Saint-Fargeau (heart) Spouse Marguerite de Nanteuil (ca. 1422-1475) Issue Jean de Chabannes (1462-1503); Gilbert, Jeanne, Jacqueline, Anne (dates unknown); Jacques, Hélène, Marie (illegitimate) Father Robert de Chabannes Mother Alix de Bort

**Antoine de Chabannes** (1408–1488), from 1439 [Count of Dammartin](/source/Counts_of_Dammartin) (with a gap in 1463–1465), was a significant military and political figure of 15th-century France. An indefatigable fighter, during his long career he joined or led numerous military campaigns all over France and beyond. He served the [Valois](/source/House_of_Valois) kings [Charles VII](/source/Charles_VII_of_France), [Louis XI](/source/Louis_XI) and [Charles VIII](/source/Charles_VIII_of_France), but also participated in two aristocratic uprisings, the [Praguerie](/source/Praguerie) against Charles VII in 1440 and the [War of the Public Weal](/source/War_of_the_Public_Weal) in 1465 against Louis XI. Associated early in his life with the [Armagnac faction](/source/Armagnac_(party)), he fought in Charles VII's campaigns against [England](/source/Henry_VI_of_England), including those involving [Joan of Arc](/source/Joan_of_Arc), and (except for a troubled period in the early 1460s) also remained generally opposed to the [Burgundians](/source/Burgundian_(party)) and their [Habsburg](/source/House_of_Habsburg) successors. 18th-century scholar [Charles Pinot Duclos](/source/Charles_Pinot_Duclos) described him as "one of the bravest men of his time, sincere, faithful, quick-tempered, a keen friend and implacable enemy" (*un des plus braves hommes de son temps, sincère, fidèle, naturellement emporté, ami vif et implacable ennemi*).[1] [Claude Villaret](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Claude_Villaret&action=edit&redlink=1) [[fr](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Villaret)] called him "the most experienced general of his era" (*le général le plus expérimenté de son siècle*).[2]

His reputation has been tainted by his late-1430s freebooting *[écorcheur](/source/%C3%89corcheurs)* raids and by his avidity in appropriating properties of the disgraced [Jacques Coeur](/source/Jacques_Coeur) in the early 1450s, mainly the lordship of [Puisaye](/source/Puisaye) which Coeur's successors tried to reclaim in legal procedures that extended beyond Chabannes's lifetime. His rule in Puisaye, however, coincided with the revival of that region following the ravages of the [Hundred Years' War](/source/Hundred_Years'_War) and the broader [Crisis of the Late Middle Ages](/source/Crisis_of_the_Late_Middle_Ages).

## Family and early life

Arms of Antoine de Chabannes as appear on his tomb, [quartering](/source/Quartering_(heraldry)) of Chabannes (*de gueules au lion d'hermine, armé, couronné et lampassé d'or*) and Dammartin (*fascé d'argent et d'azur à la bordure de gueules*), with [escutcheon](/source/Escutcheon_(heraldry)) quartering of [Toucy](/source/Toucy) (*d'or à trois pals de vair, au chef d'or chargé de quatre merlettes de gueules*) and [Sévérac](/source/S%C3%A9v%C3%A9rac-le-Ch%C3%A2teau) (*d'argent à quatre pals de gueules*). In other occurrences, Antoine de Chabannes put the arms of the [House of Châtillon](/source/House_of_Ch%C3%A2tillon), ancestors of his wife, in escutcheon.

The Chabannes were an aristocratic family established in the [Limousin](/source/Limousin) since the 13th century.[3] Antoine's father Robert de Chabannes, lord of Charlus-le-Pailhoux (now in [Saint-Exupéry-les-Roches](/source/Saint-Exup%C3%A9ry-les-Roches)), died at the [Battle of Agincourt](/source/Battle_of_Agincourt) in 1415, and his elder brother Etienne de Chabannes died at the [Battle of Cravant](/source/Battle_of_Cravant) in 1423, where 15-year-old Antoine fought as well.

Following this succession of events, the family estates went to his brother [Jacques de Chabannes](/source/Jacques_de_Chabannes). Antoine was left to assemble properties and titles on his own, which he kept doing throughout his long life.

## Service to Charles VII

Antoine de Chabannes was involved from a young age in the intrigues and fights of the embattled king [Charles VII](/source/Charles_VII_of_France), associating himself with commanders [La Hire](/source/La_Hire) and [Xaintrailles](/source/Jean_Poton_de_Xaintrailles). He was captured at the [Battle of Verneuil](/source/Battle_of_Verneuil) but, given his youth, was freed without ransom by the [Duke of Bedford](/source/John_of_Lancaster%2C_1st_Duke_of_Bedford). He then served [Duke Charles I](/source/Charles_I%2C_Duke_of_Bourbon) of the [House of Bourbon](/source/House_of_Bourbon) as a [page](/source/Page_(servant)) until 1426. The contemporary *chronique martinienne* observes of him at that time that "he was inclined towards fighting and keen to acquire honour and properties" (*tant il avait le coeur aux armes et envie d'acquérir honneurs et biens*).[4]

By 1428, 20-year-old Antoine de Chabannes fought alongside [Joan of Arc](/source/Joan_of_Arc) in battles including [Jargeau](/source/Battle_of_Jargeau), [Patay](/source/Battle_of_Patay) (where he led the vanguard and was wounded), and the [Siege of Compiègne](/source/Siege_of_Compi%C3%A8gne) where Joan was captured in May 1430.[5] In the meantime he had participated in the [March to Reims](/source/March_to_Reims) and attended the epic [coronation](/source/Coronation_of_the_French_monarch) (*sacre*) of Charles VII, on 17 July 1429.[6]

In the summer of 1429, Charles VII made him [bailiff](/source/Bailiff) of [Troyes](/source/Troyes), and in 1432, Captain of [Creil](/source/Creil), a stronghold loyal to Charles surrounded by hostile territory. In 1434, he was wounded in a bold attack on [Old Talbot](/source/John_Talbot%2C_1st_Earl_of_Shrewsbury) near [Beaumont-sur-Oise](/source/Beaumont-sur-Oise).[4] On 12 November 1437, he was with Charles VII at the latter's ceremonial entry into Paris, a major symbolic moment following the 1435 [Treaty of Arras](/source/Congress_of_Arras) that put an end to the most chaotic period of the [Hundred Years' War](/source/Hundred_Years'_War).[7]

Ruins of the castle of [Montaigu-le-Blin](/source/Montaigu-le-Blin), a base of Antoine de Chabannes in the late 1430s

He spent most of the late 1430s leading his own band of soldiers, as one of the most prominent *[écorcheurs](/source/%C3%89corcheurs)* as they were labeled in contemporary chronicles, especially Burgundian ones: literally "flayers", referring to their practices of robbing and ransoming. Many of his freebooting raids were directed at lands of the [Duke of Burgundy](/source/Philip_the_Good) such as [Hainaut](/source/County_of_Hainaut), [Cambrésis](/source/Cambr%C3%A9sis) and [Charolais](/source/Charolles), typically condoned by the king despite the stipulations of the Peace of Arras. Antoine de Chabannes also fought for the [Duke of Bourbon](/source/Charles_I%2C_Duke_of_Bourbon), who made him Captain of [Chavroches](/source/Chavroches) in 1438, and as part of royal operations, such as the siege of [Meaux](/source/Meaux) in 1439 led by [Constable of France](/source/Grand_Constable_of_France) [Arthur de Richemont](/source/Arthur_III%2C_Duke_of_Brittany). He occasionally let himself and his troops be hired as [mercenaries](/source/Mercenary), most notably for [Antoine de Vaudémont](/source/Antoine%2C_Count_of_Vaud%C3%A9mont) against [René of Anjou](/source/Ren%C3%A9_of_Anjou) in 1438-39. He also used castles of the Chabannes family as his bases, such as the [Château de Montaigu-le-Blin](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Montaigu-le-Blin&action=edit&redlink=1) [[fr](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Montaigu-le-Blin)] where he kept the lord of [Pesmes](/source/Pesmes) prisoner in 1439.[8] The grey area in which Antoine de Chabannes operated during those years, a hybrid of unsupervised banditry and royal service, is illustrated by a chronicler's story that Charles VII once saluted him ironically as *"capitaine des écorcheurs"*, to which his reply was "Sire, I only flayed your enemies, and methinks their skins will bring you more profit than to me; I never flayed anybody else" (*Sire, je n'ai écorché que vos ennemis, et il me semble que leurs peaux vous feront plus de profit qu'à moi; je n'en écorchai jamais d'autres*).[4]

Castle of [Dammartin-en-Goële](/source/Dammartin-en-Go%C3%ABle) northeast of Paris, entirely rebuilt in brick by Antoine de Chabannes's and later destroyed by [Cardinal Richelieu](/source/Cardinal_Richelieu) in 1632

On 20 September 1439 Antoine de Chabannes married Marguerite de [Nanteuil](/source/Nanteuil-le-Haudouin), [Countess of Dammartin-en-Goële](/source/Counts_of_Dammartin), to whom he had been recommended by the king.[9] The marriage brought him the County of Dammartin as her [dowry](/source/Dowry), as well as the barony of [Le Thour](/source/Le_Thour) in [Champagne](/source/Champagne_(province)) and the lordship of [Marcy](/source/Marcy%2C_Ni%C3%A8vre) in [Nivernais](/source/Nivernais).[10]

In 1440, he was one of the leaders of the [Praguerie](/source/Praguerie) against [Charles VII](/source/Charles_VII_of_France), and kept associating with the [Dauphin Louis's](/source/Louis_XI) actions in the following years, such as the [Siege of Dieppe](/source/Siege_of_Dieppe) in 1442-43 and an expedition to support [Sigismund of Habsburg](/source/Sigismund%2C_Archduke_of_Austria) against the Swiss, including the [Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs](/source/Battle_of_St._Jakob_an_der_Birs) near [Basel](/source/Basel) where he fought furiously.[4] Charles VII made him *conseiller du roi* in 1444, then [Grand Panetier of France](/source/Grand_Panetier_of_France) in 1445 (and again in 1447),[8] after he had forced him and other warlords of the [Hundred Years' War](/source/Hundred_Years'_War) to dismiss their bands of soldiers as he strived to [establish a standing army](/source/Compagnie_d'ordonnance). On that occasion, Antoine de Chabannes wore mourning clothes, telling the king that he was "taking life away from him by separating him from his soldiers" (*Sire, vous m'ôtez la vie d'éloigner mes gens d'armes de moi, avec lesquels j'ai vécu vingt ans sans reproche et sans faire de faute*).[4]

Antoine de Chabannes eventually broke with Louis in September 1446, by revealing to Charles VII the Dauphin's intrigues against [Pierre de Brézé](/source/Pierre_de_Br%C3%A9z%C3%A9), and beyond against the king himself.[7][11] This episode led to Louis's temporary banishment to the [Dauphiné](/source/Dauphin%C3%A9), upon which Louis swore that he would "take revenge against those who threw me out of my house", meaning Chabannes.[4]

[Château de Blanquefort](/source/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Blanquefort) near [Bordeaux](/source/Bordeaux), restored by Antoine de Chabannes in the late 1450s

In 1449, he was with the king in the reconquest of Normandy, and in 1451 fought in [Guyenne](/source/Guyenne) where he reconquered from the English the [Château de Blanquefort](/source/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Blanquefort) near [Bordeaux](/source/Bordeaux), nominally part of Marguerite de Nanteuil's dowry but out of her family's hands for 160 years.[4] That castle was retaken by England later in 1451, and reconquered again by Chabannes in 1453. Charles VII confirmed his ownership of it in 1455 but Louis XI took it back in 1466.[6]

Also in 1451, Antoine de Chabannes was appointed to chair the committee that investigated and led to the downfall of [Jacques Coeur](/source/Jacques_Coeur). He promptly appropriated a number of Coeur's properties including his recently acquired lordship of [Puisaye](/source/Puisaye). [Charles VII's](/source/Charles_VII_of_France) decision of 29 May 1453 specifically granted him: *"(1) the lands, castles and lordships of [Saint-Fargeau](/source/Saint-Fargeau), of [Lavau](/source/Lavau%2C_Yonne), of La Couldre, of [Perreuse](/source/Treigny-Perreuse-Sainte-Colombe), of [Champignelles](/source/Champignelles), of [Mézilles](/source/M%C3%A9zilles), or [Villeneuve-les-Genêts](/source/Villeneuve-les-Gen%C3%AAts) and their dependencies; (2) the lands of [Saint-Maurice-sur-Aveyron](/source/Saint-Maurice-sur-Aveyron), [Melleroy](/source/Melleroy), La Frenaie, [Fontenelles](/source/Lorris), and their dependencies; (3) the Barony of [Toucy](/source/Toucy) with its belongings and dependencies."* Between 1453 and 1455 he further secured ownership of the Puisaye domains by purchasing them in auction.[4]

Castle of [Sévérac](/source/S%C3%A9v%C3%A9rac-le-Ch%C3%A2teau), awarded by the king to Antoine de Chabannes in 1455 for his service in [Rouergue](/source/Rouergue)

In October 1453, he received the command of soldiers of his brother Jacques, who had died from his wounds at the [Battle of Castillon](/source/Battle_of_Castillon). He then led a campaign in 1454 against [John V, Count of Armagnac](/source/John_V%2C_Count_of_Armagnac) on the king's behalf, jointly with [Jean Bureau](/source/Jean_Bureau), for which he was awarded a number of lands in [Rouergue](/source/Rouergue) and [Languedoc](/source/Languedoc) including the lordship of [Sévérac](/source/S%C3%A9v%C3%A9rac-le-Ch%C3%A2teau).[4] In 1455-56 he was sent to [Lyon](/source/Lyon), [Savoy](/source/Duchy_of_Savoy) and the [Dauphiné](/source/Dauphin%C3%A9) to put an end to the Dauphin Louis's machinations, prompting the latter's flight to the court of [Burgundy](/source/Philip_the_Good).[11] In 1458, he and [Jean d'Aulon](/source/Jean_d'Aulon) jointly led a successful embassy to [Louis, Duke of Savoy](/source/Louis%2C_Duke_of_Savoy) and [Philip the Good](/source/Philip_the_Good), Duke of Burgundy to avert war between France and them both. in 1461, he stayed with Charles VII at the [Château de Mehun-sur-Yèvre](/source/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Mehun-sur-Y%C3%A8vre) until the king's death on July 22.[4]

## Service to Louis XI and Charles VIII

[Château de Saint-Fargeau](/source/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Saint-Fargeau), rebuilt by Antoine de Chabannes from 1467 as his main stronghold in the [Puisaye](/source/Puisaye)

On succeeding Charles VII in 1461, [Louis XI](/source/Louis_XI) was initially hostile to Antoine de Chabannes, banished him from the kingdom, then upon his voluntary return from the [Holy Roman Empire](/source/Holy_Roman_Empire) in August 1462 imprisoned him briefly in the [Conciergerie](/source/Conciergerie) and then in the [Louvre](/source/Louvre_Palace). Following a hearing on 20 August 1463, Chabannes received a death sentence from the [Parlement of Paris](/source/Parlement_of_Paris), which was commuted by the king into perpetual banishment to [Rhodes](/source/Rhodes), then after a change of mind, imprisonment in the [Bastille](/source/Bastille). Meanwhile, Louis XI had the [Puisaye](/source/Puisaye) domains returned to [Jacques Coeur](/source/Jacques_Coeur)'s son Geoffroy, and Chabannes's other properties granted to his rivals Charles de Melun, Jean de Montespedon and Antoine de Chateauneuf.

The ever-resourceful Chabannes, however, managed to escape from the Bastille in early March 1465 and joined the so-called [League of the Public Weal](/source/League_of_the_Public_Weal) against the king. That conflict was swiftly resolved following the [Treaty of Conflans](/source/Treaty_of_Conflans), of which he was one of the main negotiators. At the request of the League's princely members, the treaty included a specific clause by which Louis XI gave back to Antoine de Chabannes all his former domains.[7] In February 1467, the king further made him the [Grand Master of France](/source/Grand_Master_of_France), in replacement of his former nemesis Charles de Melun (who ended up decapitated the next year), and in August 1468 finally annulled his 1463 conviction. However, the legal procedures with the [Coeur family](/source/Jacques_Coeur) over the Puisaye domains lingered on until a final settlement in 1489, shortly after Antoine de Chabannes's death.[4]

Front page of the statute of the [Order of Saint Michael](/source/Order_of_Saint_Michael), ca. 1470, depicting Antoine de Chabannes talking to the king (7th from left, with blue hat and holding a [ceremonial baton](/source/Baton_(military)))

In 1468, Chabannes decisively refused to demobilize the royal troops assembled in [Noyon](/source/Noyon) despite a written order Louis had signed under [duress in Péronne](/source/Treaty_of_P%C3%A9ronne_(1468)), which fully regained him the King's confidence. He had the honor of being among the [Order of Saint Michael](/source/Order_of_Saint_Michael)'s first cohort of 15 knights in August 1469, confirming his return to the inner core of the French royal court. In late 1469 he was sent by Louis XI to pacify the [Guyenne](/source/Guyenne) and [Armagnac](/source/Armagnac_(province)), leading [John V, Count of Armagnac](/source/John_V%2C_Count_of_Armagnac) to flee across the border to [Hondarribia](/source/Hondarribia), and gained additional lands in [Rouergue](/source/Rouergue) as reward from the king.[4]

In the early 1470s he led royal military campaigns together with [Louis of Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol](/source/Louis_of_Luxembourg%2C_Count_of_Saint-Pol), always under tight instructions from Louis XI. In 1470 he took [Amiens](/source/Amiens) from [Burgundy](/source/Charles_the_Bold).[11] In 1472 he was made [Military governor of Paris](/source/Military_governor_of_Paris), and participated in the [defense of Beauvais against Charles the Bold](/source/Jeanne_Hachette). In December 1474, he had the honor of hosting the king and the royal court in his castle of Dammartin; around that time Louis would address him familiarily as his "cousin".[12] On 29 August 1475, he attended the [meeting of Picquigny](/source/Treaty_of_Picquigny) between Louis XI and [Edward IV](/source/Edward_IV) of England, which undermined the Anglo-Burgundian alliance and marked the formal end of the [Hundred Years' War](/source/Hundred_Years'_War).[4] Following [Charles the Bold](/source/Charles_the_Bold)'s [death](/source/Battle_of_Nancy) in January 1477, still fit to lead military operations despite his advanced age, he raided Flanders during the [War of the Burgundian Succession](/source/War_of_the_Burgundian_Succession).[13] He then held the frontline stronghold of [Le Quesnoy](/source/Le_Quesnoy) for more than a year. Louis XI, heowever, replaced him there with [Jean Daillon](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean_Daillon&action=edit&redlink=1) [[fr](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Daillon)] in June 1478 as part of a truce in which the king relinquished [Hainaut](/source/County_of_Hainaut) to [Maximilian](/source/Maximilian_I%2C_Holy_Roman_Emperor), and episode that crystallized a new deterioration of Chabannes's relationship with the king.

In the spring of 1479, Louis XI relieved him of his military command, even though he kept his pension and other titles, and was still occasionally called for advice. In 1483, some of his domains in [Rouergue](/source/Rouergue) were granted by Louis to the [Canons Regular of the Lateran](/source/Canons_Regular_of_the_Lateran),[4] as part of the donation that eventually resulted in the [President of France](/source/President_of_France) being an [honorary canon](/source/Canon_(priest)#Lay_canons) of [Saint John Lateran](/source/Archbasilica_of_Saint_John_Lateran).[14] Chabannes was duly indemnified.

Following Louis XI's death, Antoine de Chabannes was back in favor under the young [Charles VIII](/source/Charles_VIII_of_France), who on 23 October 1483 reappointed him captain and governor of Sévérac. At the [Estates General](/source/Estates_General_(France)) in [Tours](/source/Tours), in February 1484, he was sitting on the bench to the king's right, together with [Jean IV de Rieux](/source/Jean_IV_de_Rieux) and [Louis II de la Trémoille](/source/Louis_II_de_la_Tr%C3%A9moille).[4] In 1485, he further increased his domains by purchasing the barony of [Courtenay](/source/Courtenay%2C_Loiret), just north of the [Puisaye](/source/Puisaye). In his last years, he lived mainly in his castles of [Dammartin-en-Goële](/source/Dammartin-en-Go%C3%ABle) and [Saint-Fargeau](/source/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Saint-Fargeau), with occasional Parisian stays in his *hôtel de Beautreillis*, part of the former royal palace of [Hôtel Saint-Pol](/source/H%C3%B4tel_Saint-Pol) whose name survives in the [Rue Beautreillis](/source/Rue_Beautreillis). He was again made [Military governor of Paris](/source/Military_governor_of_Paris) by the regent [Anne of France](/source/Anne_of_France). He maintained an active written correspondence with the king, who appears to have valued his advice.[9]

## Death and legacy

Church of Our Lady in [Dammartin-en-Goële](/source/Dammartin-en-Go%C3%ABle) (before restoration in 2017)

Antoine de Chabannes died on Christmas Day 1488. He was buried in the collegiate church of Our Lady (*Collégiale Notre-Dame*) in [Dammartin-en-Goële](/source/Dammartin-en-Go%C3%ABle), which he had built from 1480, following a wish he had made in 1463 while imprisoned in the [Bastille](/source/Bastille), on the site of a chapel that had been destroyed during the [War of the Public Weal](/source/War_of_the_Public_Weal). The church had been consecrated by the [Bishop of Meaux](/source/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Meaux) on 18 February 1488, less than a year before Chabannes's death.[6]

The still-extant monumental tomb displays an idealized youth portrait of him as a *[gisant](/source/Tomb_effigy)* with a [phoenix bird](/source/Phoenix_(mythology)) at his feet, which may refer to eternal life but also to the ups and downs of his long career. The tomb was opened and restored in 1804, as related by a commemorative plaque which is now placed in front of it. The inscription on the rim of the lid reads: *"Cy gist noble et puissant seigneur messire anthoine de chabannes, ch[eva]l[ie]r de l'[ordre du Roy](/source/Order_of_Saint_Michael) n[ot]r[e] s[ir]e, en son vivant [comte de dampmartin](/source/Counts_of_Dammartin) baron de [toussy](/source/Toucy) et du [tour en Champaigne](/source/Le_Thour), et seignieur de [saint fargeau](/source/Saint-Fargeau) de [saint morise](/source/Saint-Maurice-sur-Aveyron) de [courtenay](/source/Courtenay%2C_Loiret) et du pays de [puisaye](/source/Puisaye), et [grand maistre d'ostel de France](/source/Grand_Master_of_France); Et fut premier fond[at]eur du [chapitre](/source/Chapter_(religion)) et [coliège](/source/College_(canon_law)) de l'église de céans, le quel trépassa le jour de Noël de l'an de grace mil CCCC.IIIIxx et huit : Dieu lui face pardon à l'âme et à tous aultres trespassés. Amen : Pater noster."*[4]

		- Antoine de Chabannes's tomb in Dammartin

		- Arms of Antoine de Chabannes on his tomb

		- Commemorative plaque of the 1804 restoration

Church of Saint-Ferréol in Saint-Fargeau

Chabannes's heart and innards were buried separately in the church of Saint-Ferréol in [Saint-Fargeau](/source/Saint-Fargeau), at the core of his domains in [Puisaye](/source/Puisaye), where his wife had been buried in 1475. Until the 17th century, the corresponding location inside the church was adorned with a small monument and an epitaph that read *"Antoine de Chabannes, / Mort suis sans trahison / Mais bien aimant raison / Conte et aussi grant mestre. / Dieu me mettre en bon estre ! / J'aimai loyauté / Qui m'a toujours porté, / Tant qu'au monde ait esté; / D'ennemi non vaincu / D'ans IIIIxx [80] j'ai vescu, / On le sait, de trois roys non reprint. / Sur ce point, Dieu m'a print."* The metal chest that contained the heart was later relocated to a chapel within the same church, in which Antoine de Chabannes's son had also erected an equestrian statue of him, probably destroyed in 1793.[4][15]

He was succeeded as Count of Dammartin-en-Goële by his only surviving son John (Jean de Chabannes), born in 1462, who had already been calling himself Lord of Saint-Fargeau since 1470.[9] Antoine's direct male line became extinct at Jean's death in 1503. In 1554, the County of Dammartin was purchased by [Constable Anne de Montmorency](/source/Anne_de_Montmorency), and remained in the [House of Montmorency](/source/House_of_Montmorency), then (after the 1632 execution of [Henri II de Montmorency](/source/Henri_II_de_Montmorency), which also led to the Dammartin castle's destruction) of [Bourbon-Condé](/source/Princes_of_Cond%C3%A9) until the [French Revolution](/source/French_Revolution). The domains in [Puisaye](/source/Puisaye) were soon divided between [Saint-Fargeau](/source/Saint-Fargeau), which went to the Houses of Anjou-Mézières and then of [Bourbon-Montpensier](/source/House_of_Bourbon-Montpensier), and [Toucy](/source/Toucy), which remained in the local family of Prie. Other branches of the Chabannes family survive to this day.

### In popular culture

Antoine de Chabannes features in *Le Spectre de Châtillon*, a 1855 novel by [Élie Berthet](/source/%C3%89lie_Berthet).[4]

He is portrayed as a devious military governor of Paris in the 1956 film *[The Vagabond King](/source/The_Vagabond_King_(1956_film))*.

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Charles Pinot Duclos (1745). *Histoire de Louis XI*. Paris: Frères Guerin & Prault.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Claude Villaret (1769). *Histoire de France*. Vol. XVII.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Etienne Pattou (2011). ["Maison de Chabannes"](http://racineshistoire.free.fr/LGN/PDF/Chabannes.pdf) (PDF). *Racines et histoire*.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Chabannes_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Chabannes_4-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Chabannes_4-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-Chabannes_4-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-Chabannes_4-4) [***f***](#cite_ref-Chabannes_4-5) [***g***](#cite_ref-Chabannes_4-6) [***h***](#cite_ref-Chabannes_4-7) [***i***](#cite_ref-Chabannes_4-8) [***j***](#cite_ref-Chabannes_4-9) [***k***](#cite_ref-Chabannes_4-10) [***l***](#cite_ref-Chabannes_4-11) [***m***](#cite_ref-Chabannes_4-12) [***n***](#cite_ref-Chabannes_4-13) [***o***](#cite_ref-Chabannes_4-14) [***p***](#cite_ref-Chabannes_4-15) [***q***](#cite_ref-Chabannes_4-16) [***r***](#cite_ref-Chabannes_4-17) Comte Henri de Chabannes (1894). [*Histoire de la Maison de Chabannes*](https://books.google.com/books?id=YNu203jFz6cC). Vol. II. Dijon.{{[cite book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book)}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_location_missing_publisher))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Antoine de Chabannes"](https://web.archive.org/web/20200921115255/https://www.familledechabannes.com/antoine-de-chabannes). *Famille de Chabannes La Palice*. Archived from the original on September 21, 2020.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Guillois_6-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Guillois_6-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Guillois_6-2) Didier Guillois (2014). ["Antoine de Chabannes : écorcheur, traitre et serviteur des lis de France"](http://fshds.fr/2017/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/bulletin-n-155-2014-12.pdf) (PDF). *Fédération des Sociétés Savantes & Culturelles Deux-Sèvres*.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Noel-Cadet2_7-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Noel-Cadet2_7-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Noel-Cadet2_7-2) H. Noël-Cadet (January–June 1914), ["Antoine de Chabannes (1408-1488), sa Famille et ses Souvenirs, à Dammartin-en-Goële (deuxième partie)"](https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5457651w/texteBrut), *Bulletin de la Société scientifique historique et archéologique de la Corrèze*, Brive

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Cazaux_8-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Cazaux_8-1) Loïc Cazaux (30 October 2013). ["Antoine de Chabannes, capitaine d'écorcheurs et officier royal : fidélités politiques et pratiques"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJXgAsSGFkE). *Youtube*.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Noel-Cadet_9-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Noel-Cadet_9-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Noel-Cadet_9-2) H. Noël-Cadet (January–June 1915), ["Antoine de Chabannes (1408-1488), sa Famille et ses Souvenirs, à Dammartin-en-Goële (suite et fin)"](https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k54577517/texteBrut), *Bulletin de la Société scientifique historique et archéologique de la Corrèze*, Brive

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** Jean Le Clerc (1907). *Cronique Martiniane*. Paris: Honoré Champion. p. [39](https://archive.org/details/croniquemartinia00lecl/page/38).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Certaines_11-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Certaines_11-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Certaines_11-2) Marquis de Certaines (1980), ["Les Chabannes, Mille ans d'histoire 980-1980"](https://web.archive.org/web/20200921114601/https://www.familledechabannes.com/les-chabannes-mille-ans-d-histoire), *Famille de Chabannes La Palice*, Nevers, archived from the original on September 21, 2020

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** Joseph Vaesen; Bernard de Mandrot (1908), [*Lettres de Louis XI, roi de France, publiées d'après les originaux pour la Société de l'histoire de France*](https://archive.org/stream/lettresdelouisx06louigoog/lettresdelouisx06louigoog_djvu.txt), vol. X, Paris, pp. 349–350{{[citation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Citation)}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_location_missing_publisher))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-13)** Anniina Jokinen (2007). ["Louis XI, King of France (1423-1483)"](http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/louis11.htm). *Luminarium*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-14)** Gustave Constant (1935), ["Chanoine Paul Fiel, *Le Chapitre du Latran et la France*, Paris, A. Picard, 1935"](http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rhef_0300-9505_1935_num_21_91_2741_t1_0248_0000_2), *Revue d'Histoire de l'Eglise de France*, Paris: 248–250

1. **[^](#cite_ref-15)** Françoise van Zon-Bourgeois (24 October 2016). ["Une bien curieuse visite à l'église de St Fargeau"](http://histoire-patrimoine-st-fargeau.eklablog.com/une-bien-curieuse-visite-a-l-eglise-de-st-fargeau-a127260460). *Histoire et patrimoine de Saint-Fargeau*.

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