Enguerrand de Marigny, Baron Le Portier (1260 â€" 30 April 1315) was a
French chamberlain and minister of Philip IV.He was born at
Lyons-la-Forêt in Normandy, of an old Norman family of the smaller
baronage called Le Portier, which took the name of Marigny about
1200.He was born at Lyons-la-Forêt in Normandy, of an old Norman
family of the smaller baronage called Le Portier, which took the name
of Marigny about 1200.Enguerrand entered the service of Hugues II de
Bouville, chamberlain and secretary of Philip IV, as a squire, and
then was attached to the household of Queen Jeanne, who made him one
of the executors of her will. He married her god-daughter, Jeanne de
St Martin. In 1298 he received the custody of the castle of
Issoudun.After the death of Pierre Flotte at Courtrai in 1302 and de
Bouville at the Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle in 1304, he became Philip's
Grand Chamberlain and chief minister. In 1306 he was sent to preside
over the exchequer of Normandy. He received numerous gifts of land and
money from Philip as well as a pension from Edward II of England.
Possessed of an ingratiating manner, politic, learned and astute, he
acted as an able instrument in carrying out Philip's plans, and
received corresponding confidence. He shared the popular odium which
Philip incurred by debasing the coinage. He acted as the agent of
Philip in his contest with Louis, Count of Nevers, the son of Robert
III of Flanders, imprisoning Louis and forcing Robert to surrender
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