Jean de Corbeil (died November 1318),

Seigneur ''Seigneur'' is an originally feudal title in France before the Revolution, in New France and British North America until 1854, and in the Channel Islands to this day. A seigneur refers to the person or collective who owned a ''seigneurie'' (or ...

Grez-sur-Loing Grez-sur-Loing (, literally ''Grez on Loing''; formerly Grès-en-Gâtinais, literally ''Grès in Gâtinais'') is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in north-central France. Sights * The Church of Notre-Dame et Saint-Laurent ''(Church o ...

, was a

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.Louis de La Roque
''Catalog historique des généraux français, connétables, maréchaux de France, lieutenants généraux, maréchaux de camp. Connétables et maréchaux de France depuis les premiers temps de la monarchie jusqu'à la fin du règne de Louis XIV''
(Paris, A. Desaide, 1896-1902), p.26. He was the son of Jean de Corbeil, lord of Grez-sur-Loing, and grandson of Bishop Guillaume de Grez, count of Beauvais and a

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. In 1308 de Corbeil was appointed Marshal of France by

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and was sent to Flanders. In May 1313 he was among the lords appointed by

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to negotiate peace with

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. He served in Flanders in 1318 under

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and died at the end of that year.

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