Jacques de Lalaing “Le Bon Chevalier”

Notes
Seigneur de Bugnicourt, chevalier de la Toison d'Or, conseiller et chambellan de Philippe-le-Bon, duc de Bourgogne et fut surnommé "le bon chevalier". Il fut tué durant le siège de Poucques. Il fut tué par un boulet de pierre lancé par une couleuvrine gantoise. Mort sans avoir été marié.
- lord of Lalaing and Bugnicourt
- high bailiff of Hainaut
- governor (stadhouder) of Holland

Available Sources :
L de Herckenrode, 1868.
E De Seyn, 1948.
F Brassart, 1879.
FV Goethals, 1862.
A Van Buchel, 1648.
Birth, death: L de Herckenrode, 1868 & F Brassart, 1879
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Jacques de Lalaing called "Le Bon Chevalier" ° ~1420/21 (Lalaing) +X 03/07/1453 (in front of Poucques, Poucke or Poeke near Ghent, killed with 1 man-at-arms & 4 archers of his company)
- lord of Bugnicourt,
- knight of the Golden Fleece (52°, 1451, Chapter of Mons),
- adviser & chamberlain of Philippe II "Le Bon" duke of Burgundy (held in 1441 the Pas de La Fontaine de Plours (near Châlons-sur-Saône) for one year without ever being defeated by his competitors)
- the most famous tournoyeur of his time in Europe

sans alliance

Pattou, Etienne. “Famille & Seigneurs De Lalaing.” Racines et Histoire :
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Jacques de Lalaing, the Good Knight, born around 1420, at the castle of Lalaing, knight of the Golden Fleece in 1451, after his famous step of the Fountain of "plours", killed in front of Poucques, three leagues from Ghent, on July 3, 1453, at the moment when the war against the rebellious Ghenters was about to end. He left an unblemished reputation and made his name illustrious for ever.

Jacques de Lalaing (1421–1453), perhaps the most renowned knight of Burgundy in the 15th century

Brassart, Felix, Société Académique, editor. Souvenirs De La Flandre Wallonne, Catalogue des Nobels de Nom, de Lalaing, Dix-Septieme, L. Crépin, 1882. un Comite Historique et Archeologique: Memories of Walloon Flanders: pp. 40-41
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Who shot Jacques de Lalaing? by Mario Damen

“The Hainaut knight Jacques de Lalaing (1421-1453) led a short and turbulent life. This came to a sudden end by a targeted shot during the siege of the castle of Poeke, some 20 kilometers west of Ghent. What exactly was Jacques doing there and who actually fired that fatal shot? The chronicles describing his death and the miniatures depicting it do not correspond.”…

Jacques de Lalaing adorned in a blue cloak (for he was not on duty) is hit by a bullet in the left eye during the siege of Poeke. Livre des faits de messire Jacques de Lalaing, Paris, BnF, MS fr. 16830, fol. 202r.

An interesting blog post by Mario Damon, senior lecturer in medieval history at the University of Amsterdam, considered a expert in the social, political and cultural history of the late medieval Low Countries.

Curator note: other descriptions say that the death was caused “by a ricochet from a cannon ball”. Philip the Good was so furious at the death of his favorite knight Jacques that when the Poucques Castle was taken he had all those captured in it hanged, priests, lepers and children excepted. (Charles Morris, "The Career of a Knight-Errant,")
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JACQUES de Lalaing (-Poucques 3 Jul 1453, bur Lalaing). An epitaph at Lalaing Sainte-Aldegonde records the burial of “Jacques de Lalaing aisné fils de...Guillaume seigneur de Lalaing” who died 3 Jul 1453 “au siège devant Ponckes”[517]. The testament of “Guillaume seigneur de Lallain...”, dated 4 Sep 1473, donated property for the souls of “...deffunts messires Jacques [...lequel gist en le chappelle de notre Dame de Sainghin scitué en ladite eglise de Lallain]...”, approved by “nostre...filz aisne et heritier apparent maistre Jehan de Lalain”[518].

Cawley, Charles. “NORTHERN FRANCE-CAMBRAI, DOUAI, VALENCIENNES.” Medieval Lands, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, 24 Mar. 2022, https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/nfracado.htm#_Toc44147371''
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Further reading:
1) Les errances du « bon chevalier » @ https://www.academia.edu/34457635/Les_errances_du_bon_chevalier_