See also
Husband:
Olivier IV DE CLISSON (c. 1300-1343)
Wife:
Jeanne DE BELLEVILLE (c. 1300-1359)
Children:
Olivier IV DE CLISSON
Name:
Olivier IV DE CLISSON
Sex:
Male
Father:
Mother:
Birth:
c. 1300
Death:
2 Aug 1343 (age 42-43)
Paris, 75056, Paris, Ile-de-France, Frankrijk
Name:
Jeanne DE BELLEVILLE
Sex:
Female
Father:
-
Mother:
-
Birth:
c. 1300
Title:
dame de Montaigu
Death:
1359 (age 58-59)
Son: Olivier V DE CLISSON
Spouse: Béatrix DE MONTMORENCY-LAVAL
Name:
Olivier V DE CLISSON
Sex:
Male
Spouse:
Birth:
23 Apr 1336
Clisson
Title:
comte de Porhoët
Death:
24 Apr 1407 (age 71)
Josselin
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY – On 2nd August, 1343, Olivier de Clisson was found guilty of treason and beheaded at Les Halles in Paris, on the orders of King Philip VI. Oliver’s head was sent to Nantes and displayed on a pole outside the Castle of Bouffay. His wife, Jeanne de Clisson, enraged over her husband's execution, swore revenge on the King and the nobility. She sold their holding, bought a fleet of ships, and took to the sea as a pirate. She became known as the Lioness of Brittany and stalked the English Channel for French ships from 1343 – 1356. The ships that Jeanne purchased were painted all black on her command, and the sails dyed red. The 'Black Fleet' took to the waters and began hunting down and destroying the ships of King Philip VI, and were merciless with the crews. But Jeanne would always leave two or three of Philip's sailors alive, so that the message would get back to the King that the 'Lioness of Brittany' had struck once again.