Amory (Emery, Amalric), Baron de Severac , lord de Beaucaire and de Chaude-Zag ( fr. Amaury de Sévérac ; 1365 - 1427 ) - Marshal of France under King Charles VII , one of the commanders of the French army during the Hundred Years War .
Short biography
Son of Deodata de Kelyus-Severak, and Jeanne de Narbonne. He received the barony de Severak after his elder cousin, Guy VI, died childless.
After the death of his father, his guardian was his uncle - Archdeacon Albi , who was preparing him for a spiritual career, but Severak chose for himself a military career.
He participated in a campaign against Flanders under the leadership of the Count d'Armagnac .
In 1393 he married the daughter of Guildon de Solage, but this marriage remained childless.
In 1416, he founded a chapter of 12 canons and priory of Severak and Benedictine in Saint-Christophe , which existed until the Great French Revolution .
He began the development of iron ore deposits in Espeirak, patronized holding fairs in Lessak and Severak.
In 1417 he gave way to Jeanne d'Auvergne, to the widow of Guy VIII in the lifelong use of the income brought by Baronius de Severac.
In 1426, he made a will, in which he appointed heirs Jean, Viscount de Lomany, son of John IV, Count d'Armagnac and Blanca of Breton.
The following year, Jean de Lomagne, wanting to seize the inheritance, gave the order to strangle him. The murder took place in the castle Gage.
Participation in hostilities
After the death of his father, his guardian was his uncle - Archdeacon Albi, who was preparing him for a spiritual career, but Severak chose for himself a military career.
After returning, under his leadership the troops were first given, with whom he laid siege to the castle of La Gard , and expelled the British from there.
In 1389 he accompanied Count Bernard VII d'Armagnac to Aragon , where King John called them, hoping with the help of the French to get rid of the mercenary troops who had plundered the country and take away Roussillon . The expedition ended in failure, and in the battle of Navata, Severak was captured.
Being in captivity, he decided to visit the holy places , which he did when he received his freedom after paying the ransom.
In 1391, after returning to France, he accompanied John III d'Armagnac on his expedition to help Carl Galeazzo Visconti , his nephew and co-ruler of his uncle, Jan Galeazzo , whom the latter had stripped of his land as a result of a quarrel. Additionally, the dukes of Burgundy and Berry , at that time leading the royal council, saw in this expedition the opportunity to get rid of the mercenary detachments that were ravaging the French south at that time - and an additional 200,000 francs were allocated for the expedition. The army of 15 thousand mercenaries, whom Bernard d'Armagnac led from Roussillon began the movement from Dauphiné , crossed the Alps at the head of it and crossed the Piedmont with fights, subjugated the Lombard cities and a little before reaching Milan , died in July of the same year in the battle of Castelazzo. Severak took over command of the army, due to the death of his commander, almost decayed, and having managed to restore discipline, led her back to France. Passages through the Alps were blocked, however, boldly entering the battle, Severak managed to capture the commander-in-chief of the enemy forces - Count Valentinois, Bishop of Valencia and the Prince of Orange , and in addition to a large ransom for them, to force the enemies to release the pass.
This expedition legitimately brought him the fame of one of the best military leaders of France.
In 1398, he was conceiving a new campaign in Lombardy, and Count Bernard d'Armagnac was to accompany him, but Charles VI ordered him to forbid it, which makes historians believe that the king doubted his loyalty. Similarly, the project of Severak and Raymond-Louis de Beaufort ended the same year with the rejection of the war against Louis d'Anjou .
However, the royal opal was short-lived, and already in the following years, Severak fulfills the assignments of the crown in Rouergue and Languedoc .
In 1410, the Duke of Berry makes him the seneschal of Ruerg and Quercy . In 1415, a special decree once again confirms his authority.
After the murder of Louis of Orleans, he joined the Armagnac party, and Bernard VII went to the war and handed him control over all of his lands and gave custody of the children.
In 1415, after the defeat at Azencourt , Bernard d'Armagnac became the constable of France and immediately summoned to the court of Amaury de Severak. Taking command of the French army, Severak managed to defeat the British in Normandy .
When John the Fearless laid siege to Paris , Severak, constantly exhausting his army in minor skirmishes, finally lured him into an ambush and destroyed a considerable number of his people.
After the traitor Perrine Leclerc helped the burginons enter Paris, and the constable d'Armagnac died on July 12, Severac with a small number of people retreated to Guyenne , where he helped his son d'Armagnac to get out of Nîmes, where he was already taken into the ring of bourguignons, and deliver it to the mother.
The following years Severak spends in his possession, however, the new king, Charles VII again calls him to the court and in 1422 produces the marshals of France - the honor that he takes not without hesitation, for the first time abandoning it.
Having re-led the French troops, Severak with 800 infantry and 400 archers successfully blocked the British crossing over the Loire to Lone , however, losing the battle of Kravan - moreover, according to the Chronicle of the Virgin , shows cowardice, and flees from the battlefield, thereby dooming his army for destruction.
However, even after this defeat, Severak is by no means deprived of royal favors, in 1426 Karl makes him his viceroy in Macon , Lyon and Sharolla .
In the same year, carelessly getting involved in a quarrel between two brothers - the sons of Count d'Armagnac takes the side of the younger , trying to get John IV to abandon the inheritance in favor of his brother. Having quarreled over this with South d'Arpajon, he declares war to the latter and reconciles with him only in the presence of the king.
Probably trying to atone for the offense inflicted on John IV, Severak on May 7, 1426, rewrites the will, making heir to the son of John, Viscount de Lomanay, which predetermines his fate.
After the death of Amory de Severak, his clan was stopped, and the inheritance finally passed on to the d'Armagnac family.