Jean VI Malet, seigneur de Graville

Jehan or Jean VI Malet de Graville known as the Younger (around 1420-1482), Chamberlain of the Dauphin, future Louis XI, who would marry:
around 1437 Marie de Montauban, daughter of Guillaume, lord of Montauban and Bonne de Visconti,
in 1440 Marie de Montberon, daughter of François Ier de Montberon, Baron de Montberon and Maulévrier, and Louise de Clermont d'Aunay,
Charles Malet, Pastor of Montfort and Beaufou,
Louise Malet.

Birth of Jean VI Malet de Graville
Jehan or Jean VI Malet de Graville dit le Jeune was born around 1420 , son of Jean V Malet de Graville and Jacqueline de Montagu.

Marriage of Jean VI Malet de Graville with Marie de Montauban
Jean VI Malet de Graville married around 1437 Marie de Montauban, daughter of Guillaume de Montauban and Bonne Visconti.

Marriage of Jean VI Malet de Graville with Marie de Montauban
Jean VI Malet de Graville is the son of Jean V Malet de Graville (1390-1449), Lord of Graville, Master of the Crossbowmen of France, and Jacqueline de Montagu (1398-1436), Heiress of Marcoussis.

Jean VI Malet de Graville marries Marie de Montauban, daughter of Guillaume de Montauban (died in 1432), Lord of Landal and Bona Visconti (1385-1469), Lady of Landal. Their children are:

Louis I Malet de Graville (1438-1516), Lord of Graville who will marry Marie de Balzac (1440-1503),
Jean Malet de Graville (died 1470).

Birth of Louis Malet de Graville

Louis Malet de Graville was born in Paris in 1438 , son of Jean VI Malet de Graville .

His parents having died young, Louis received further education from his maternal uncles after completing his humanities at the Collège de Montaigu in Paris.

Marriage of Jean VI Malet de Graville with Marie de Montberon

Jean VI Malet de Graville married on July 6, 1440 Marie de Montberon (died after 1468), Dame de Chef-Boutonne, daughter of François Ier de Montberon, Baron de Maulévrier (1392-around 1470) and Louise de Clermont (born in 1385 ). Their children are:

Marie Malet de Graville (born in 1445 or 1455) who will marry:
Louis de Clermont (died 1477),
July 8, 1478 Antoine de Beaumont-Bressuire (circa 1455-1511), Lord of Bury,
Louise Malet de Graville (circa 1448-1499) who married Guillaume de Rouville (died 1492), Grand veneur de France,
Renée Malet de Graville who will marry Jean III Martel (died in 1488), Lord of Bacqueville,
Jeanne Malet de Graville who will marry François de Tourzel d'Alègre (died in 1512), Lord of Précy-sur-Vrin.

Jean VI Malet de Graville

Jean VI Malet de Graville became Chamberlain to Louis XI in 1445 .

Death of Gilles de Bretagne

Death of Francis I the Fratricide

Pierre II de Dreux Duke of Brittany and Count of Guingamp

Gilles de Bretagne, brother of François Ier the Fratricide, represents the pro-English party in the duchy.

Gilles de Bretagne died on the night of April 24 to 25, 1450 , strangled at the Château de la Hardouinaye by Olivier de Méel with the complicity of Robert Rouxel.

Olivier de Méel fled to France and found asylum in the castle of Marcoussis belonging to Jean VI Malet de Graville , Lord of Graville, who married Marie de Montauban.

François I the Fratricide is accused of the murder of his brother Gilles de Bretagne.

François I the Fratricide died at the manor of Plaisance-en-Saint-Avé on July 17, 1450 .

Pierre II de Dreux became Duke of Brittany and Count of Guingamp in August 1450 under the name of Pierre II de Bretagne.

After his coronation; Françoise d'Amboise is quickly named the good duchess.

Françoise d'Amboise is already much loved and appreciated for her spirit, her cheerfulness and her patience.

Françoise d'Amboise takes a discreet but active part in the government of Brittany.

She helps the little ones, the poor and the sick.

She also deals with justice issues.

Death of Jean VI Malet de Graville Lord of Graville

Jean VI Malet de Graville died after 1453 .

Liberation of Jean VI Malet de Graville

Jean VI de Graville was freed in 1478 .

Castle of Milly-la-Forêt
Death of Jean VI Malet de Graville

Jean VI Malet de Graville died at Pont-de-Chamois in 1482 .

His body was transported by water to Graville, for 98 pounds 2 sols and 6 deniers.

Louis Malet de Graville inherited from his father.

At that time, the county of Milly-la-Forêt extended over the châtellenies of Fleury, Achères, Nainville, Boutigny and Cély.

Louis Malet de Graville rebuilt and fortified the castle of Milly-la-Forêt.

Milly-la-Forêt has one of the most important fairs in the Ile-de-France region.

Louis Malet de Graville surrounds Milly-la-Forêt with fortifications, pierced by:

the castle gate,
St. Peter's Gate,
the door of Melun,
the gate of Fontainebleau,
the door of Lyons,
the Saint-Jacques gate,
The Frog Gate.
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"Jean VI de Graville, Lord of Marcoussis

At the end of the Hundred Years War, economic life resumed in the Hurepoix, as did habits and customs. A man named Michel, receiver of the land of Guillerville, once again took over the receipt of the rights, in particular for the goods sold at a rent or head cens fifty years earlier. The vassals like that of Villiers-sous-Longpont make their "adveux": Charles de Garenne to Jehan de Graville, because of his seigniory of Guillerville for the new hostel of Villiers, of a manor at the crossroads ... This declaration made for formalize his property for the sale that follows.

In 1450, Olivier de Méel, a Breton nobleman accused of having assassinated Gilles de Bretagne, had taken refuge in France at the castle of Marcoussis with Jean VI Malet de Graville. The husband of Marie de Montauban sheltered a vassal of his father-in-law. Marie's older brother, Jean de Montauban, Marshal of Brittany was suspected of some complicity in the crime of which his brother Arthur was the main perpetrator. Later, two squires of the Comte de Richemont arrived at Marcoussis to kidnap the fugitive who was condemned and beheaded at Vannes on June 8, 1451.

In an act of 1452, nobleman Jehan Malet, knight, lord of Graville, and lord of Marcoussis , affirms for truth that it happened to him by the death of Mrs. Jacqueline de Montagu, his mother, 60 acres of arable land in two rooms:
- 50 arpens sitting in front of the door of the monastery close to the meadows of the chioenere, to the land of the walnut trees of the Red House, - 10 arpens
leading to the wall of the gardens of the castle of Marcoussis, to the walls of the park and gardens of the Célestins,
- item behind lostel des Célestins, a piece of land enclosed by walls of the said park now being in bush and thorns, leading to the Mesnil fountain and at the other end to the river,
- item a room of boys containing 80 arpens from Moquets to the old path of Bruyères, leading to the prior of Bruyères, - item
4 arpens of meadow in fallow land and desert, called the meadow of Chionere, holding at the top.
Which lands Jehan Malet confesses to having given the said goods to the religious prior and convent of the Célestins of Marcoussis . This sale made for two hundred gold escus counted, paid in gold escus of 22 Parisian sols by honest person brother Nicole Wibet, prior. The seller saying to use the sum in necessary repairs to the chastel of Marcoussis, ponds and other belongings, which are now in great ruin, by means of which price the salesman divested himself of the inheritances cy above declare. The irrevocable sale even by the wife of Robert de Sarrebruce, Lord of Commercy for which the said Malet bears his guarantee of the property of the said Marcoussis for certain trials pending."
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