Pierre d'Orgemont

Pierre (I) d’Orgemont (c. 1315 – 23 June 1389) was a French politician of the Hundred Years' War era.

[2] Pierre d’Orgemont studied law and began his career as a mere lawyer in 1340 in the Parlement de Paris where he was made master clerk in May 1347 then first president in 1355.

This college had been summoned together by Charles V: In the year one thousand three hundred and seventy three, on Sunday 20th November, our king held his grant and general council at the Louvre, from prelates, from princes of his line, barons and other nobles, from the lords of the Parlement, from the 'requestres de son Hostel', from the 'Comptes', and other councillors up to the number of twenty-six-and-ten persons or thereabouts, to elect the chancellor of FranceSuch a procedure was never revived by Charles' successors.

He remained chancellor until his retirement in 1380, following the death of Charles, who made him executor of his will – he then became maître des requêtes to the parlement de Paris.

He soon began to build an impressive moated château, completed after his death by his son Amaury.