Jean I de Blois-Châtillon, comte de Penthièvre

Jean I de Blois-Châtillon

Comte de Penthièvre et de Goelo. Vicomte de Limoges. Seigneur d´Avaugour, de Landrecies, de Nouvion-en-Thièrache

By virtue of the treaty of Brétigny, Jean II of France had to pay three million gold crowns, to Edward III of England, for his ransom, and would be released after he paid one million. As a guarantee for the payment of his ransom, John gave as hostages two of his sons, several princes and nobles, four inhabitants of Paris, and two citizens from each of the nineteen principal towns of France.Jean Châtillon, Comte de Porcien, was one of the nobles held as hostage. This treaty was ratified and sworn to by the two kings and by their eldest sons on 24 October 1360 at Calais.