Pierre I of Orgemont, chancellor of France (d. 1389)

Lord of Méry-sur-Oise and Chantilly. Counsellor at the Parlement in 1352, then maître des requêtes and second president in 1356. Dismissed in 1357 but reinstated in 1359. On 21 February 1371 King Charles V made him chancellor of the Dauphiné. In 1372 he became first president of the Parlement of Paris and on 20 November 1373 he was elected as chancellor of France. He was one of the executors of King Charles V’s will. He is generally accepted as the author of the vulgate version of the Grandes Chroniques de France, made for Charles V, with a continuation covering his reign. He died on 3 June 1389.

Bibliographic References:

Léon Lacabane, ‘Recherches sur les auteurs des Grandes chroniques de Frances, dites de Saint-Denys’, Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes, 2 (1840–1841), 57–74 (p. 66–74).

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