Louis I, Duke of Bourbon
- Louis I, Duke of Bourbon
Louis I of Bourbon, "le Boiteux", the Lame (
Clermont-en-Beauvaisis , 1279 –January 29 1342 ) was Count ofClermont-en-Beauvaisis and La Marche, and the firstDuke of Bourbon .Life
Louis was son of
Robert, Count of Clermont and thus grandson of KingLouis IX of France , who never saw him, the son of his youngest son. Louis' mother was Beatrix of Burgundy, heiress of Bourbon and a granddaughter ofHugh IV, Duke of Burgundy .He fought on the losing side in both the
Battle of the Golden Spurs (1302) and theBattle of Mons-en-Pévèle (1304), but escaped unharmed. In 1310, he was madeGrand Chambrier of France . In 1327,Charles IV of France persuaded him to exchange the County of Clermont for that of La Marche, and elevated Bourbon to aduchy-peerage . However, Clermont was restored to him byPhilip VI of France in 1331.Duke Louis is reported to have been mentally somewhat instable, a trait of nervous breakdowns presumably hereditary that showed clearly for example in his granddaughter
Joanna of Bourbon , the queen, and in her son, kingCharles VI of France , as well as down in the line in Charles' grandson kingHenry VI of England .Family and children
In 1310, Louis married Mary of Avesnes, daughter of John II of Avesnes,
Count of Hainaut and Holland byPhilippa of Luxembourg . They had eight children:
#Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (1311–1356), killed at theBattle of Poitiers
# Jeanne (1312–1402), married in 1324 Guigues VII, Count of Forez
# Marguerite (1313–1362), married onJuly 6 ,1320 Jean II de Sully, married in 1346 Hutin de Vermeilles
#Marie of Bourbon (1315–1387,Naples ), married first inNicosia in January 1330 Guy of Lusignan (d. 1343), titularPrince of Galilee , married second onSeptember 9 ,1347 Robert of Taranto , the titularLatin Emperor . Only her first marriage produced surviving children.
# Philip (1316 – aft. 1327)
# James (1318)
#James I, Count of La Marche (1319 – 1362), killed at theBattle of Brignais , from whom the later royal Bourbons descend.
#Beatrice of Bourbon (1320 –December 23 ,1383 ,Danvillers ), married first atVincennes in 1334 John of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia as his second wife, married herself second c. 1347 Eudes II of Grancey (d. 1389)
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