Jacques d'Harcourt

## Comte de Cosnac

Jacques Amaury d'Harcourt, vers 1613, par Daniel Dumonstier.

**Jacques Amaury d'Harcourt**, Comte de Cosnac (6 February, 1585) was a French nobleman, courtier and amanuensis belonging to the ancient house of Harcourt, trough the collateral branch of of Bonnétable-Beuvron.

Jacques was the second son of Pierre d'Harcourt, Marquis de Beuvron, a councilor of the monarch in his state councils who's political positions and alignment have valued him a position of 'Malcontent' within the court of *Jean VI 'le fol'*. He was styled as Baron de Sigournay following his birth, as his older brother occupied his older brother occupied the traditional title of heritage; being born a second in line to the heritage that Pierre would give to his children. His position as second inheritor of the Harcourt-Beuvron possessions assured him a relative tranquility, until the successive births of his numerous brothers in the following years.

Viewed as a sort of moderated malcontent despite his familial severe roots trough the malcontents faction, Jacques views the current court in a state of disarray between a deranged monarch and opportunists, with in the middle religious faction trying to get a good grip upon the courtly politics. He stands on by the sides of the Dauphin, whom he considers the most apt to get a stable hold of the situation, and acts as one of his close followers. Recently, by the year 1612, Jacques was married to *Eléonore Chabot de Jarnac de Saint-Gelais*; a successful second remarriage for the lady who was of a consequent ascendance - representing a few of the most primeval and reputable houses within France - and has brought her name and the Comté de Cosnac as dowry for Jacques. They both shared an immense adoration for one another and hastily married after the death of her first husband, right away the customary six months of mourning. After their marriage Jacques and Eléonore both enjoyed two years of retirement within their respective lands as to profit from eachother; harboring the same political and courtly mentalities of nescience, they both wish to remain unaffected from billowy arguments.

## Titles, Styles and Honours

### Titles & Styles

* **6th February 1585 - 27th March 1612:** *Messire le Baron de Sigournay*
* **27th March 1612 - Present:** *Messire le Comte de Cosnac*
	+ Baron de Puibeliard et de Sigournay
	+ Seigneur de Fresnay

## Issue

### Legitimate

On March 27, 1613, Jacques married Eléonore Chabot de Jarnac de Saint-Gelais, daughter of Léonor Chabot de Jarnac and Marie Claude de Rochechouart; respectively Baron and Baronne de Jarnac. His union with a Chabot proved to be well-found and the pair were described as caring and attentive of eachother.

With his wife, *Eléonore Chabot de Jarnac de Saint-Gelais*, he had one children:

* **Pierre-Phébus d'Harcourt,** *Baron de Puibéliard (b. 1613)*

### Illegitimate

Akin to numerous nobles for the century, Jacques Phébus had a certain number of affairs before his marriage with certain women of humble extractions; one of which who bore a single children:

With *Amicie des Camélines,* *Demoiselle de Camélles,* he had one daughter:

* **Amicie-Odette d'Harcourt-Camélines,** *Bâtarde d'Harcourt (b. 1604)*