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Robert OF ARTOIS (1216-1250)
Robert of Artois | ||
Name: | Robert OF ARTOIS 1 |
Sex: | Male |
Nickname: | "Le Bon", "The Good" |
Father: | Louis VIII OF FRANCE (1187-1226) |
Mother: | Blanche OF CASTILE (1188-1252) |
Individual Events and Attributes
Birth | 25 Sep 1216 | |
Occupation | frm 8 Nov 1226 to 25 Feb 1244 (age 10-27) | heir to the throne as heir presumptive |
Title | frm 1237 to 1250 (age 20-34) | Count of Artois |
Group/Caste Membership | Capetian Dynasty | |
Death | 8 Feb 1250 (age 33) | Mansourah, Egypt |
Additional Information
Death | Cause: drowning while trying to cross a river named Thanis (a branch of the Nile) |
Marriage
Medallion of Matilda of Brabant | ||
Spouse | Matilda OF BRABANT (1196-1288) | |
Children | Blanche OF ARTOIS (aft1245-1302) | |
Marriage | 14 Jun 1237 (age 20) |
Individual Note
Robert I (1216 – 8 February 1250), called the Good, was the first Count of Artois, the fifth (and second surviving) son of Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile.[1]
Life
He received Artois as an appanage, in accordance with the will of his father (died 1226) on attaining his majority in 1237 (aged twenty-one). In 1240 Pope Gregory IX, in conflict with the Emperor Frederick II, offered to crown Robert as emperor in opposition to Frederick, but the French count refuse to pretend to such a title.
Marriage
On 14 June 1237 Robert married Matilda, daughter of Henry II of Brabant and Marie of Hohenstaufen.[2]
They had two children:
Blanche (1248–1302)
Robert II (1250–1302), who succeeded to Artois after Robert I was killed in Egypt during the Seventh Crusade, led by his brother Louis IX of France.
Death
Robert died while leading a reckless attack on Al Mansurah. He and the Templars accompanying the expedition charged into the town and became trapped in the narrow streets. According to Jean de Joinville, he defended himself for some time in a house there, but was at last overpowered and killed. According to Matthew Paris, he fled in disgrace at the height of the battle , and drowned while trying to cross a river named Thanis (a branch of the Nile).
NOTES:
1 Masson, Gustave, The story of mediæval France: from the reign of Hugues Capet to the beginnings of the sixteenth century, (G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1888), 90.
2 Leese, Thelma Anna, Blood royal: issue of the kings and queens of medieval England, 1066-1399, (Heritage Books Inc., 2007), 35.
SOURCES:
Leese, Thelma Anna, Blood royal: issue of the kings and queens of medieval England, 1066-1399, Heritage Books Inc., 2007.
Masson, Gustave, The story of mediæval France: from the reign of Hugues Capet to the beginnings of the sixteenth century, G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1888.2
Sources
1 | Weis, Frederick Lewis & Sheppard, Walter Lee, Jr, "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and other Historical Individuals". p 53, 45-29; 113, 113-29. |
2 | "Wikipedia". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_I,_Count_of_Artois. |