Jacques de Chabannes (ca. 1400-1453) was a French nobleman and military commander during the reign of King Charles VII. The elder brother of

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, he is most notable for his significant role at the

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in 1453.

Life

Jacques was the second son of Robert de Chabannes and Alix de

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, and became the 's senior member following the death of his brother Etienne at the

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in July 1423. He successfully served

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and became his seneschal in 1428. He took part in the

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where

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triumphed in 1429, and in the

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where she was captured in 1430. In 1431 he bought the domain of La Palice from the Duke of Bourbon for 6,000 gold ''

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s''. In 1436 Charles VII made him Captain of

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. In 1440 he participated in the feudal revolt against Charles VII known as the

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and subsequently lost his post as Seneschal of

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, which he had been given in 1438, but was back in royal favor by the mid-1440s. In 1451 the king awarded him the lordship of Curton and its dependencies, southwest of

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, which he had confiscated from Louis II de Beaumont-Bressuire. During the 1451 campaign he also took part in retaking

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, Bourg, Fronsac and Bayonne from the English. On 17 July 1453 he was instrumental in the decisive French victory at the

, which effectively marked the end of the Hundred Years' War. He fell ill during that campaign, however, and died at Curton on 25 October 1453. His younger brother

, who in the meantime had become one of France's prominent military leaders, inherited the command of his company of soldiers. On 30 May 1429 he married Anne de Launay, who died childless the next year. On 4 October 1432 he married Anne de Lavieu de Feugerolles. They had two sons, from which stem the two subsequent branches of the Chabannes family, respectively named after the two castles acquired by Jacques: the lords of Chabannes de La Palice from Geoffroy (ca. 1433-1500), and lords of Curton from Gilbert (ca. 1439-1495). He was buried according to his will at the Franciscans' convent in nearby Rions.

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