Louis de Bourbon, Bishop of Liège
|Louis de Bourbon|
Prince-Bishop of Liège (1456-1482)
|Died||30 August 1482Assassination)(aged 44) (|
|Cause of death||Assassinated by William de la Marck|
|Occupation||Prince-Bishop of Liège|
|Predecessor||John of Heinsberg|
|Children||• Pierre de Bourbon, Bâtard de Liège
• Louis de Bourbon, Bâtard de Liège
• Jacques de Bourbon, Bâtard de Liège
|Parent(s)||Charles I, Duke of Bourbon
Agnes of Burgundy
Louis' three children (all likely to have been born from a mistress) were:
- Pierre de Bourbon, bâtard de Liège (1464 - 1529);
- Louis de Bourbon, bâtard de Liège (1465 - 1500);
- Jacques de Bourbon, bâtard de Liège (1466 - 1537).
Louis' eldest son, Pierre, founded the Bourbon-Busset family.
Conflict over the bishopric
Philip secured for him in 1456 the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, by influencing Pope Callixtus III, and removing the 69-year-old John of Heinsberg. Given the strategic position of Liège almost enclosed by Burgundian possessions, Louis was a poor choice because his behavior quickly led to troubles, permitting French meddling.
Marc de Bade was put in place by the Liégeois, who fought under Raes van Heers, but military force from Burgundy prevailed, in 1465. The resulting Peace of Saint-Trond restored the bishop, but Liège lost its sovereignty. Another revolt in 1467 was crushed at the Battle of Brustem.
In the summer of 1468, Louis was back in his prince-bishopric, after a papal legate had intervened, but was captured at Tongeren by a raiding party from Liège, at that time again asserting independence of Charles the Bold of Burgundy. An unlikely alliance of Charles with Louis XI, who in 1465 had helped the Liégeois against the bishop, saw Bishop Louis released. Liège was taken, and sacked on 30 October 1468.
Louis sold Condé and Leuze to Marie de Montmorency.
In 1477, Charles the Bold was killed, and his daughter and heiress Mary of Burgundy was forced to sign the Peace of Saint-Jacques, consolidating the bishop's position but returning sovereignty to Liège. He was at this time amongst the advisers of Mary who wanted her to marry the future Charles VIII of France, then Dauphin of France.
There are numerous contemporary accounts.
- History of the duchy of Bouillon
- Compagnie de la Verte Tente, Le 15ème siècle (in French), archived from the original on 5 May 2008
- Cawley, Charles, "Bourbon", Medieval Lands database, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy,[self-published source][better source needed];  (in French).
- Richard Vaughan (1970), Philip the Good, p. 123.
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- Vaughan, p. 223.
- According to Paul Murray Kendall, Louis XI, p. 256, Louis lacked both religious and administrative talents. According to , greedy, absent-minded and awkward.
- Vaughan p. 274.
-  (in French); describes Louis as Homme maladroit, faible et frivole, i.e. clumsy, weak and frivolous. Marc de Bade (Baden) was well-connected, of a German family, and was appointed as mambour, a secular post implying military protection .
- , 
-  (in French).
- Kendall, p. 262; .
- He was supposed to make peace; Charles and Louis the king and Louis the bishop conferred at the Château de Fallais .
- Kendall p. 268-271.
-  (in French).
- In gratitude Louis gave Charles the Horn of St Hubert, now in the Wallace Collection ; see .
- Leuze-en-Hainaut (Municipality, Province of Hainaut, Belgium)
-  (in French).
- Kendall, p. 390.
- Belgian Castles: LOGNE
- Scott's own introduction admits this: In assigning the present date to the murder of the Bishop of Liege, Louis de Bourbon, history has been violated. It is true that the Bishop was made prisoner by the insurgents of that city. It is also true that the report of the insurrection came to Charles with a rumour that the Bishop was slain, which excited his indignation against Louis, who was then in his power. But these things happened in 1468, and the Bishop's murder did not take place till 1482. Gutenberg text.
- See  (in French)
|Catholic Church titles|
John of Heinsberg
|Prince-Bishop of Liège
1456 – 1482
John of Hornes