Mathieu III de Trie

Mathieu III de Trie (d. 26 November 1344), lord of Araines and Vaumain, was marshal of France as the Valois came to the throne and war with England began. Eldest son of Renaud de Trie, he led a battalion at Courtrai in 1302, where his father fell, and succeeded Jean de Beaumont as marshal around 1320.

He accompanied Charles of Valois in the conquest of Guyenne in 1324 and commanded troops against the Flemings in 1325. In 1328 his brother Guillaume, archbishop of Reims, crowned Philip VI, and in 1339 Mathieu offered the king an army for the invasion of England.

In the Flanders campaign of 1340 he commanded under the king, then shut himself in Tournai, which Edward III was besieging, until the siege ended. He died childless in 1344, full of honours.