Régnier Pot, seigneur de la Prugne

Régnier Pot (probably 1362 † 1432), Lord of Prugne & of La Roche-Nolay (now La Rochepot) & of Thorey & of Chamelard & of Melissey & of Courcelles-le-Roi, Chamberlain of the Duke of Orléans (1394), Councillor and Chamberlain to the Dukes of Burgundy, Governor of Dauphiné (1409-1414), Advisor to Charles VI (1407), was a knight of the Pot family and one of the most important advisors at the Court of the Dukes of Burgundy.

He was 3rd Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece (1430), following the founding Grand Master of the Order Philip III Duke of Burgundy and William of Vienna Duke of Burgundy.

The knightship of Régnier Pot2 had inherited from his father the Seigneury (Feudal Lord) of La Prugne. Régnier was sent to Prussia in the service of the Grand Masters from 1389 to 1391. On his return, Philip the Bold nicknamed him Palamedes, Knight of the Round Table, for a feat of arms that has not come down to us3. He participated in the crusade (and disaster) of Nicopolis in 1396, where his two half-brothers, Guy and Guillaume de la Trémoille, perished. He was taken prisoner at the same time as John the Fearless, whose ransom and release he negotiated.

His trip to Bulgaria gave rise to a legend attributed to him, his release would have been linked to a fight against two lions. A stained glass window of Notre-Dame de Dijon recalls this legend (central stained glass window of the south transept, sign at the bottom).

On 15 Sept. 1403, at a price of 4,000 gold crowns, he bought the Seigneury (Feudal Lordship) of La Roche-Nolay, which became La Rochepot.

He was Butler (Cupbearer) to Philip III the Good Duke of Burgundy, and was a Ducal Councillor (1427).

He was also Governor of the Dauphiné, (8 January 1410 to June or July 1414) and accomplished a mission of pacification in Languedoc (1411-1412). He was captain of Parthenay (1417), as well as Ambassador to Hungary where he made 9 voyages, including one in 1408 to negotiate the marriage of the Duke of Brabant (Anthony of Burgundy, son of Philip the Bold) with Elisabeth of Goerlitz.

As one of the close confidants of Philip III the Good Duke of Burgundy in 1430, and as a reward for his services to the House of Burgundy, he was the third knight named in the first promotion of the Order of the Golden Fleece.

He was buried with his son Jacques in the chapel of St-Pierre de Nolay. The funerary monument was destroyed during the revolution, there remains a drawing made by Palliot, and a vestige of the funerary plaque in this church7.

Securities:
Lord of La Prugne-au-Pot (inheritance), La Roche de Nolay (purchase 1403), Thorey en Tonnerrois, Chamelard and Mélisey (purchase 1398 and 1399), Courcelles-le-Roi (gift of Marie de Sully, sister-in-law of Régnier Pot, in 1400), Vieil-Castel, Cruzy-le-Châtel, S-Romain and Maulnes (gift of the Duke of Jean-sans-Peur in 1405 and 1416), Champroy (inheritance), Bourguignon-lès-Bar-sur-Seine (purchase 1407).

Régnier Pot was the son of Guillaume (William) III Pot († before 1390), Lord of La Prugne, Balathier, Champrois and Piégu, and Radegonde de Guénant, who was widow of Guy V de la Trémoille, and had by him 3 sons, Guy, Guillaume and Pierre de la Trémoille. Guillaume III Pot was the son of Guillaume II Pot, and Blanche de La Trémoille, daughter of Guy IV de La Trémoille, lord of Vouhec.

He married, on 29 November 1392 in Vincennes Catarina d'Anguissola, lady-in-waiting who had followed Valentine Visconti (1368-1408), wife of Louis I, Duke of Orléans, in France Vincennes. Catarina Anguissola was the daughter of Giovanni Anguissola and Beatrice Visconti,13 herself the daughter of Galeazzo II Visconti, Lord of Milan, and his mistress Malgarola da Lucino.

Beatrice Visconti was the half-sister of Gian-Galezzao Visconti, father of Valentine Visconti, and Catarina Anguissola the cousin of the latter. Through this marriage, the Pot family became related to the kings of France, the father of Galeas II Visconti, Stephen Visconti, being the great-grandfather of Isabeau of Bavaria, wife of Charles VI. Régnier Pot's son, Jacques Pot, broke his coat of arms with a fleur-de-lys to recall this kinship. Later, Louis XII, grandson of Valentine Visconti, who became king of France, called Louis Pot, grandson of Régnier Pot and bishop of Tournai, his cousin.

The only child of this marriage was Jacques Pot († 1458), father of Philippe Pot.

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