Aymar VI de Poitiers, known as "Le Gros",

Count of Valentinois The Count of Valentinois was originally the official in charge of the region (county) around Valence (Roman ''Valentia''). It evolved in a hereditary title of nobility, still indicating control of the Valentinois and often of the Diois. The title ...

and Diois, Lord of Taulignan and Saint-Vallier, Governor of Dauphiné from 1349 to 1355, he was appointed in 1372, Rector of the Comtat Venaissin, by his brother-in-law Pope Gregory XI. He was deputy to Jean de Cheylar, prior of Charraix, near Langeac, in the bishopric of Saint-Flour.

Biography

Poitiers was the eldest son of

Louis I de Poitiers, Count of Valentinois Louis I de Poitiers (died 21 October 1345), Count of Valentinois, was a 14th-century French noble. Louis was killed during the Battle of Auberoche in 1345. Life Louis was a son of Aymar V of Valentinois and Sibylle de Baux. He succeeded his f ...

, and Marguerite de Vergy. Poitiers married Alix, niece of Clement VI, the daughter of William II Roger de Beaufort and Marie Chambon. He died either in 1374 or 1376 and was buried at the Abbey of Bonlieu, near Marsanne. Aymar appointed his nephew Louis II de Poitiers, as his heir.

References

J. F. André, ''Histoire du gouvernement des Recteurs dans le Comtat'', Carpentras, 1847

Charles Cottier, ''Notes historiques concernant les Recteurs du ci-devant Comté Venaissin'', Carpentras, 1808
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