Louis I, Count of Nevers

Louis I, Count of Nevers
Born 1272
Died (1322-07-22)22 July 1322
Paris
Noble family House of Dampierre
Spouse(s) Joan, Countess of Rethel
Issue
Father Robert III, Count of Flanders
Mother Yolande, Countess of Nevers

Louis I (1272 – 22 July 1322) was suo jure Count of Nevers and jure uxoris Count of Rethel.

Louis was the son of Robert III, Count of Flanders,[1] and Yolande, Countess of Nevers.[2] He succeeded his parents as Count of Nevers. In December 1290, he married Joan, Countess of Rethel,[3] and thus became her co-ruler in the County of Rethel. They had two children:

He died in Paris shortly before his father and thus never succeeded his father as Count of Flanders.

Ancestors

References

  1. ↑ William H. TeBrake, A Plague of Insurrection: Popular Politics and Peasant Revolt in Flanders, 1323-1328, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993), 36.
  2. ↑ The Low Countries and the Disputed Imperial Election of 1314, Henry S. Lucas, Speculum, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Jan., 1946), 80.
  3. 1 2 David M Nicholas, Medieval Flanders, (Taylor & Francis, 1992), 442.
Louis I, Count of Nevers
Born: 1272 Died: 22 July 1322
French nobility
Preceded by
Yolande and Robert		 Count of Nevers
1280–1322		 Succeeded by
Louis I
Preceded by
Joan
as sole ruler		 Count of Rethel
1290–1322		 Succeeded by
Joan
as sole ruler
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