Jean de Watteville, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jean de Watteville

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Place of Birth: Besançon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1670

Profession: pasha

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Jean de Watteville

  • Jean De Watteville (1618-1702) was a Burgundian noble of Flemish extraction who became a Carthusian monk. His father was Pierre de Watteville, who settled in Spain and pursued a military career.
  • His mother was Giuditta de Brebbia, daughter of a senator from Milan.
  • Jean De Watteville was born in Besançon in 1618, and joined the army at a young age.
  • He fought in Italy for the Habsburgs against the French.
  • Having killed a Spanish officer in a quarrel, De Watteville fled to Paris, where he sought refuge in a Carthusian monastery.De Watteville apparently found the practice of chastity burdensome, and one night was discovered climbing over the monastery wall.
  • He killed the Prior with a shot from his pistol and made his escape.
  • The following day he killed another man in a pub brawl, and so fled onwards again to Spain.
  • In Perpignan he seduced the daughter of his host before killing again, this time during a duel with a gentleman, son of a Spanish grandee, and so was forced to go on the run once more.
  • eventually he arrived in Turkey, where he converted to Islam and became a Pasha.De Watteville then defected to the Venetians and handed over to them several Ottoman fortresses in return for a Papal guarantee that he would be pardoned and could return to the priesthood.
  • This done he returned to Burgundy and collected various rich benefices, plotting to overthrow Spanish rule and replace it with that of Louis XIV.
  • His ambition was to become Archbishop of Besançon, but the Pope reminded him about the double murder, breaking of vows, apostasy etc.
  • and he withdrew to another rich abbey.

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