Antoon of Vergy


Vergy in the gold book Order of Arms Antoon van Vergy (French: Antoine de Vergy) (1375 - 29 October 1439), Lord of Champlitte, was a Burgundian nobleman during the Hundred Years War.

His father, Jan III of Vergy, was Senescale and Marshal of the Duchy of Burgundy under Filips de Stoute. As a member of the Duke Jan without fear, he was injured in the murder attack on the latter in Montereau (1419). Coat of arms King Henry V of England, who, after the treaty of Troyes, acted as a reign for the mentally ill Charles VI of France, nominated him in France in January 1422, depriving him of the fools named by Jan without fear. The new duke of Burgundy, Philip de Goede, appointed him as Captain General of Burgundy and Charolais. In that position, Cravant (1423) was fighting against the dauphin troops.

Jan van Bedford, ruling for the minor English king Henry VI in France, nominated him in 1427 as governor of Champagne and the town of Langres. From this he attacked Vaucouleurs and took part in the succession in the Duchy of Lorraine. In battle at Bulgnéville on the side of Anton van Vaudemont he captured René I of Anjou (1431).

He received the county Dammartin of the English. Filips de Goede nominated him in 1430 to be one of the first knights in the Gold Fleece.

Vergy died after a disease and was buried in Champlitte. Out of his two marriages, he had no children.

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