Robert I, Count of Dreux

Robert I, Count of Dreux
Robert I Capet
Born c.  1123
Died (1188-10-11)11 October 1188
probably Braine
Noble family House of Dreux
Spouse(s) Agnes de Garlande
Hawise of Salisbury
Agnes de Baudemont
Father Louis VI of France
Mother Adélaide de Maurienne
French Monarchy
Direct Capetians
Hugh Capet
Robert II
Henry I
Philip I
Louis VI
Louis VII
Philip II
Louis VIII
Louis IX
Philip III
Philip IV
Louis X
John I
Philip V
Charles IV

Robert I of Dreux, nicknamed the Great (c. 1123 – 11 October 1188), was the fifth son of Louis VI of France and Adélaide de Maurienne.[1] Through his mother he was related to the Carolingians and to the Marquess William V of Montferrat.

In 1137 he received the County of Dreux as an appanage from his father. He held this title until 1184 when he granted it to his son Robert II.

In 1139 he married Agnes de Garlande.[2] In 1145, he married Hawise of Salisbury.[3] By his third marriage to Agnes de Baudemont in 1152,[4] he received the County of Braine-sur-Vesle, and the lordships of Fère-en-Tardenois, Pontarcy, Nesle, Longueville, Quincy-en-Tardenois, Savigny, and Baudemont.[5]

Robert I participated in the Second Crusade and was at the Siege of Damascus in 1148. In 1158 he fought against the English and participated in the Siege of Séez in 1154.

Marriages and children

1.Agnes de Garlande (1122–1143), daughter of Anseau de Garlande, count of Rochefort.[6]

  • Simon (1141 – bef. 1182), lord of La Noue

2.Hawise of Salisbury (1118–1152), daughter of Walter Fitz Edward of Salisbury, Sheriff of Wiltshire

3.Agnes de Baudemont, Countess of Braine (1130 – c. 1202).[9]

The Sicilian chancellor Stephen du Perche may also have been a son (legitimate or not) of his.

Ancestry

Notes

  1. ↑ Dreux, R. Thomas McDonald and William W. Clark, Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, Ed. William W. Kibler, (Routledge, 1995), 305.
  2. ↑ Michel, Edmond, Histoire de la ville de Brie-Comte-Robert, Vol.1, (Dujarric & Cie, 1902), 69.
  3. ↑ Power, Daniel, The Norman frontier in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, (Cambridge University Press, 2004), 239.
  4. ↑ The Thirteenth Century Chronique De Normandie, Gregory Fedorenko,Anglo-Norman Studies XXXV: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2012, ed. David Bates, (The Boydell Press, 2013), 170.
  5. ↑ Power, 214.
  6. ↑ Michel, Vol.1, 69
  7. ↑ Dyggve 1935, p. 73.
  8. 1 2 M. A. Pollock, Scotland, England and France After the Loss of Normandy, 1204-1296: Auld Amitie, (Boydell & Brewer, 2015), 92 n29.
  9. ↑ Power, 214.
  10. ↑ Gislebertus of Mons, Chronicle of Hainaut, Trans. Laura Napran, (Boydell Press, 2005), 110.
  11. ↑ Gislebertus of Mons, 110
  12. ↑ M. A. Pollock, Scotland, England and France After the Loss of Normandy, 1204-1296: Auld Amitie, 145.

References

  • Dyggve, Holger Petersen (1935). "Personnages historiques figurant dans la poésie lyrique française des XII e et XIII e siècles. III: Les dames du »Tournoiement» de Huon d'Oisi". Neuphilologische Mitteilungen. Vol. 36, No. 2.
  • Gislebertus of Mons, Chronicle of Hainaut, Trans. Laura Napran, Boydell Press, 2005.
  • Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, Ed. William W. Kibler, Routledge, 1995.
  • Michel, Edmond, Histoire de la ville de Brie-Comte-Robert, Vol.1, Dujarric & Cie, 1902.
  • M. A. Pollock, Scotland, England and France After the Loss of Normandy, 1204-1296: Auld Amitie, Boydell & Brewer, 2015.
  • Power, Daniel, The Norman frontier in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Robert I, Count of Dreux
Born: c. 1123 Died: 11 October 1188
New creation Count of Dreux
1137–1184		 Succeeded by
Robert II
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