Archambault IX. (Bourbon)

Coat of arms of Archambault IX. of bourbon

Archambault IX. (* around 1205; † January 15, 1249 in Cyprus ) was Lord of Bourbon .

He was the only son of Archambault VIII from the House of Dampierre . His mother was Guigone de Forez . After the death of his father in 1242, he inherited his rule Bourbon (-l'Archambault) .

Marriage and offspring

He married (the marriage contract dated May 30, 1228) Yolande of Châtillon , Countess of Nevers , Auxerre and Tonnerre , daughter of Guido I of Châtillon , Count of Saint-Pol , and Agnes of Donzy , heiress of the counties of Nevers , Auxerre and Tonnerre .

The couple had two daughters:

• Mathilde II (* probably 1234, † 1262), 1257 Dame de Bourbon, Countess of Nevers, Auxerre and Tonnerre; ∞ February 1248 Odo , heir duke of Burgundy , 1257–1262 Count of Nevers, Auxerre and Tonnerre, † August 4, 1266 in Akkon ( Elder House of Burgundy )
• Agnes (* probably 1237, † September 7, 1288), 1249 Dame de Bourbon; ∞ I February 1248 John of Burgundy, 1248 lord of Bourbon, † September 29, 1268 ( Elder House of Burgundy ); ∞ II 1277 Robert II , Count of Artois , 1285–1289 regent of Naples , † July 11, 1302 in the battle of the Spurs ( House of France-Artois )

crusade

Archambault IX. took part in the crusade of Louis IX. against Egypt ( Sixth Crusade ), who set out in Aigues Mortes in August 1248 , but died in January 1249 on the way during the winter in Cyprus. He had previously married his daughters Mathilde and Agnes, who were to succeed him, in the older house of Burgundy in February 1248. Mathilde received the property in Burgundy ( Nevers , Auxerre , Tonnerre ) and the Hereditary Prince of Burgundy, Agnes das Bourbonnais and his younger brother Johann. Agnes' daughter from her first marriage, Beatrix , brought Bourbon to the Capetians through her own marriage to Robert von Clermont : Beatrix and Robert are the first parents of the Bourbons .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Joseph R. Strayer: The Crusades of Louis IX. In: Robert L. Wolff / Harry W. Hazard: The later Crusades, 1189-1311. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 1969. p. 493.
2. ↑ Vincent de Beauvais , Speculum Historiale xxxii , 89 (Strasbourg, Johann Mentelin 1473)
3. ↑ Baldwin von Avesnes , Chronicon Hanoniense , ed. by Johannes Heller in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS 25 (1880), p. 454

literature

• Jacques Le Goff : Louis the saint. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-608-91834-5 , pp. 112, 117, 705.
• Detlev Schwennicke : European family tables . Volume III.1. Verlag JA Stargardt, Marburg 1984, plate 51.
• Andreas Thiele: Narrative genealogical family tables on European history. Volume 2: European imperial, royal and princely houses. Volume 1: Western Europe. RG Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-89406-909-0 , plate 29.