Jean III de Werchin, dit le Bon

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Jean III de Werchin, dit le Bon

Birthdate:
Death: October 25, 1415 (35-44)
Azincourt, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France (Bataille d'Azincourt)
Immediate Family:

Son of Jacques III de Werchin, seigneur de Walincourt and Jeanne d'Enghien
Husband of Marguerite de Luxembourg
Father of Jeanne de Preures
Brother of Philippote, dame de Werchin
Half brother of David d'Auxy, Sir Et Ber; Jacques II d'Harcourt, baron de Montgommery and Philippe d'Harcourt, seigneur de Montgomery

Occupation: Senechal du Hainaut, ecrivain et poète., ECUYER, SEIGNEUR de VERCHIN
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About Jean III de Werchin, dit le Bon

Sénéchal du Hainaut, ministre de la Cour amoureuse, ami de Christine de Pisan, a composé vers 1404, un poème allégorique sous forme de vision, Le Songe de la Barge; à la même date il a échangé des Ballades avec Guillebert de Lannoy (lire à la BNF: le Livre des cent ballades). Mort à Azincourt en 1415.

Jean de Werchin et Christine de Pisan

Jean III de Werchin (1374 – 25 October 1415), called the Good (le Bon), was a knight errant and poet from the County of Hainaut in the Holy Roman Empire. In 1383 his father died and he inherited the baronies of Werchin, Walincourt and Cysoing, as well as the hereditary office of seneschal of Hainaut, which had been in his family since about 1234.


-https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/HAINAUT.htm#JeanIIIWerchindied1415

(a) JEAN [III] de Werchin (-killed in battle Agincourt 25 Oct 1415, bur Chercq-les-Tournai). Seigneur de Werchin, de Cysoing, de Walincourt, de la Longueville et de Biez. Hereditary seneschal de Hainaut, 1st beer de Flandres.

m ( [8 Mar 1396] ) as her second husband, MARGUERITE de Luxembourg, widow of PIERRE d'Enghien Conte di Lecce e Castro, daughter of GUY de Luxembourg Comte de Ligny, de Roussy et de Saint-Pol & his wife Mathilde de Châtillon.


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October 25, 1415
Age 40
Azincourt, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France