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Personal data Charles I d'ALBRET 

• Alternative name: Charles Constable d' Albret
• He was born in the year 1368 in Nerac, Garonne, France.Sources 3, 4, 5

  Attention: Was younger than 16 years (15) when child (Georges de la TRÉMOÏLLE) was born (??-??-1383).

  Attention: Was younger than 16 years (14) when child (Marguerite Trémouille) was born (??-??-1382).

• Alternative: He was born in the year 1362 in Nérac, Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine, France.
• Resident on 1600-1890: USA.
• He died on October 25, 1415, he was 47 years old.

  Attention: Died 9 months (October 25, 1415) prior to the birth (??-??-1426) of child (Charles dAlbret) .

  Attention: Died 9 months (October 25, 1415) prior to the birth (December 23, 1422) of child (Cardinal Bishop of Cahors Louis d'Albret) .

  Attention: Died 9 months (October 25, 1415) prior to the birth (??-??-1430) of child (Jean Albret) .

• Alternative: He died on October 25, 1415 in Battle of Azincourt, 62310, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France, he was 47 years old.Sources 3, 4, 5
• He is buried in Vieil-Hesdin, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.Source 5
• A child of Arnaud-Amanieu Albret and Margaretha de Bourbon

Household of Charles I d'ALBRET

He is married to Marie de Sully.

They got married on February 27, 1400 at Provins, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France, he was 32 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Marguerite Trémouille  1382-1416 
2. Georges de la TRÉMOÏLLE  1383-1446 
3. Jeanne I d'Albret  1386-1435 
4. William d Albret Dreux  1401-1429
5. Catherine Jacqueline d'Albret  1407-1413
6. Charles II Lord of Albret ,Count of Dreux, Magnate Soldier  1407-1471 
7. Charlotte d' Albret  1409-????
8. Guillaume d' Albret  1409-1429
9. Marie DeLaTremouille  1410-1468
10. Guy de la Trémoïlle  ± 1420-1390
11. Cardinal Bishop of Cahors Louis d'Albret  1422-1465
12. Charles dAlbret  1426-1473
13. Jean Albret  1430-????
14. Louis De La Tremoïlle  ????-1483

Notes about Charles I d'ALBRET

BiographyCharles was born into an old Gascon family, the son of Arnaud, Lord of Albret, and Margaret de Bourbon.[1][2] He served under Bertrand du Guesclin as a young man and fought at the battle of Roosebeke.[2] He was made the constable of France by Charles VI in 1403, but dismissed when the Burgundian faction gained power at court.[2] He was restored to his office in 1413 when the Armagnac faction regained power.[2] An important figure at the French court, he is the subject of two of Christine de Pizan's Autres Ballades (#2 and #3).[3]
Although nominal commander of the French army in the Agincourt campaign together with Marshal Boucicaut, the two professional soldiers could not exercise effective control over the higher-ranking French nobles on the day of the battle. Constable d'Albret was killed at Agincourt during the battle on 25 October 1415, against the English troops led by King Henry V.[2] He was interred at the Friary church in Hesdin.[2]
FamilyHe married, Marie de Sully,[4] daughter of Louis de Sully and Isabel de Craon, on 27 January 1400 and had issue:
· Jeanne d'Albret (1403–1433), married in 1422 John I, Count of Foix.[5] She was his second wife; the only one of his three wives who bore him issue.
· Charles II d'Albret (1407–1471),[1] married Anne of Armagnac (born 1402), the daughter of Bernard VII of Armagnac, Count of Charolais and Bonne of Berry, by whom he had seven children.
· Guillaume d'Albret (d. 1429), Lord of Orval
· Jean d'Albret
· Catherine d'Albret, married Jean de Montagu (1363–1409), vidame of Laon and illegitimate son of Charles V of France.
In cultureConstable Charles d'Albret plays a significant role in William Shakespeare's play Henry V, as one of the leading enemies of the English. As he does not die on stage, his death is portrayed in very different ways in film adaptations of the play. Constable d'Albret was portrayed by Leo Genn in the 1944 film Henry V. The film sets up d'Albret as the most military worthy of the French warriors, but with a sneering manner and a "fierce and inhuman appearance" in black armour with a pointed visor.[6] He is killed in single combat with Henry, played by Laurence Olivier. His distinctive black armour is later taken and worn by Ancient Pistol.
He is played by Richard Easton in the 1989 film Henry V. Constable d'Albret's death at Agincourt is vividly depicted in the film which starred Kenneth Branagh in the title role. He is rescued mortally wounded from the muddy battlefield, only to die in shamed despair among other shocked French aristocrats.
In the 2012 TV film of Henry V, concluding the series The Hollow Crown, he is played by Maxime Lefrancois. His death is portrayed in an unheroic light. In a wood away from the main action, he stabs the Duke of York in the back during the final stages of the conflict, only to be shot in the back by a longbowman as he prepares to kill the only witness, a young page. The page is later revealed to be the Chorus, remembering the events as an old man after the disasters of Henry VI's reign.
Ancestry[edit]showAncestors of Charles I of AlbretReferences[edit]· ^ Jump up to:a b Wagner 2006, p. 5.
· ^ Jump up to:a b c d e f Brabury 2005, p. 6.
· Jump up^ Willard 1998, p. 3-15.
· Jump up^ Galand 2005, p. 289.
· Jump up^ Biu 2002, p. 453.
· Jump up^ Loehlin 2000, p. 46.
Bibliography[edit]· Biu, Hélène (2002). "Du panégyrique à l'histoire : l'archiviste Michel de Bernis, chroniqueur des comtes de Foix (1445)". Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes (in French).
· Bradbury, Jim (2004). The Routledge Companion to Medieval Warfare. Routledge.
· Galand, Gérard (2005). Les seigneurs de Châteauneuf-sur-Sarthe en Anjou (in French). Cheminements.
· Loehlin, James (2000). Shakespeare in Performance: Henry V. Manchester University Press.
· Wagner, John A., ed. (2006). Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War. Greenwood Press.
· Willard, Charity Cannon (1998). "Christine on the Art of Warfare". In Desmond, Marilynn. Christine de Pizan and the Categories of Difference. University of Minnesota Press.

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