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Robert I OF DREUX (1123-1188)
Robert I of Dreux | ||
Name: | Robert I OF DREUX 1 |
Sex: | Male |
Nickname: | "The Great" |
Father: | Louis VI OF FRANCE (1081-1137) |
Mother: | Adélaide de Maurienne OF SAVOY (1092?-1154) |
Individual Events and Attributes
Birth | 1123 | |
Occupation | frm 1137 to 1188 (age 13-65) | Count of Dreux |
Group/Caste Membership | Capetian Dynasty | |
Child Count | 14 | |
Marriage Count | 3 | |
Death | 1188 (age 64-65) |
Marriage
Spouse | Agnes DE BAUDEMONT (1130-1202?) | |
Children | Alex DE DREUX ( -aft1217) | |
Marriage | 1152 (age 28-29) |
Individual Note
Robert I of Dreux, (Robert I Capet) nicknamed the Great (c. 1123 – October 11, 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, he received the County of Braine-sur-Vesle, and the lordships of Fère-en-Tardenois, Pontarcy, Nesle, Longueville, Quincy-en-Tardenois, Savigny, and Baudemont.[4]
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.[5]
Simon (1141 – bef. 1182), lord of La Noue
2.Hawise of Salisbury (1118–1152), daughter of Walter Fitz Edward of Salisbury, Sheriff of Wiltshire
Adèle of Dreux (1145 – aft. 1210), married firstly Valéran III, count of Breteuil, secondly Guy II, lord of Châtillon-sur-Marne, thirdly Jean I de Thorotte, fourthly Raoul III de Nesle, count of Soissons.[6]
Alice or Adelheid (1144–?)
3.Agnes de Baudemont, Countess of Braine (1130 – c. 1202).[7]
Robert II (1154–1218), count of Dreux and Braine.[8]
Henry (1155–1199), bishop of Orléans
Alix (1156 – aft. 1217), married Raoul I, lord of Coucy
Philippe (1158–1217), bishop of Beauvais.[9]
Isabella (1160–1239), married Hugh III of Broyes
Peter (1161–1186)
William (1163 – aft. 1189), lord of Braye, Torcy, and Chilly
John (1164 – aft. 1189)
Mamilie (1166–1200)
Margaret (1167–?), nun
The Sicilian chancellor Stephen du Perche may also have been a son (legitimate or not) of his.
NOTES:
1 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 Power, 214.
5 Michel, Vol.1, 69
6 Power, 239.
7 Power, 214.
8 Gislebertus of Mons, Chronicle of Hainaut, Trans. Laura Napran, (Boydell Press, 2005), 110.
9 Gislebertus of Mons, 110
SOURCES:
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.
Power, Daniel, The Norman frontier in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, Cambridge University Press, 2004.2
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 130, 135-27; 262, 273-28. |
2 | "Wikipedia". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_I_of_Dreux. |