NEMOURS, JACQUES D'ARMAGNAC, DUC DE

( (duke of), ) born 1433 died Aug. 4, 1477, Paris also called (until 1462) Comte De Castres peer of France who engaged in conspiracies against Louis XI. He was the first of the great dukes of Nemours. In 1404 the duchy of Nemours had been granted to Charles III of Navarre; but, upon his death in 1425, the succession was intermittently contested between his daughters' consorts and their heirs. Finally, in 1462, Louis XI of France confirmed it to Jacques d'Armagnac, an heir hitherto known as the comte de Castres. On both his paternal and maternal sides he was descended from the royal house of France. As a lieutenant of the King, he pacified Roussillon (1463); but, feeling ill-compensated for his services, he joined the Ligue du Bien-Public (League of Public Weal) against Louis XI in 1465. Detached from this conspiracy by the grant of the governorship of the le-de-France, he nevertheless engaged in further treasonable acts, for which he was pardoned in 1470. He began conspiring again, however, and was taken prisoner at Carlat in 1476. He was transported from place to place and finally installed in a miserable cage in the Bastille. The following year he was condemned by Parlement and beheaded.