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Jean de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
15th-century Marshal of France
Jean de Villiers, Seigneur of L'Isle-Adam (c. 1384 – 22 May 1437) was a French nobleman and military commander who fought in the Hundred Years' War.
As a supporter of the Duke of Burgundy, he fought on both sides of the conflict – English and French. He was a Marshal of France and a founding member of the knightly Order of the Golden Fleece.
Philippe Villiers de l'Isle-Adam ( – 21 August ) was the Grand Master of the Knights Hospitalier from to his death.Life
Jean de Villiers (Jehan de Villers, Seigneur de l'Isle-Adam) was the son of Pierre II de Villiers and Jeanne de Châtillon in an old noble French family.
He was captured at the siege of Harfleur in 1415 by the English and released for ransom.
King Charles VI of France made him maître des eaux et forêts of Normandy.
Marshal of France
In the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War, Villiers joined the Burgundians and became one of their leading officers. On 29 May 1418 he succeeded in conquering the city of Paris, and was involved in the following massacre, in which Bern