Hugo I of Châtillon

As the second-born son, Hugo had an additional tournament collar in the family crest. This coat of arms was passed on to his first-born Johann, while the second son Guido carried on the original family coat of arms without a tournament collar.

Hugo I of Châtillon (* after 1197; † April 9, 1248 near Avignon ) was Lord of Châtillon , as Hugo V Count of Saint-Pol and by marriage as Hugo I Count of Blois and Dunois and Lord of Guise .

Life

He was the younger son of Walter III. of Châtillon († 1219, House of Châtillon ) and Elisabeth of Saint-Pol († 1240).

When his father died in 1219, he inherited his lords of Châtillon , Troissy , Crécy and Ancre . After the death of his older brother Guido in 1226, he also took over the government of his mother's county , County Saint-Pol .

Marriages and offspring

Hugo was married three times. In his first marriage he married Agnes von Bar († before 1225), daughter of Count Theobald I of Bar . The marriage remained childless.

In 1225 he married Maria von Avesnes , Countess of Blois , heir to Walter II of Avesnes and Margaret of Blois . Through this marriage, Hugo von Châtillon acquired the county of Blois as well as inheritance claims to a number of lordships in northern France: Avesnes , Guise , Condé , Leuze , Landrecies and Trélon . However, with the death of his mother-in-law in 1230 and his inauguration, not only the House of Blois in the Loire Valley ended , but also the political importance of the County of Blois in France. Hugo himself played no role in French politics. With Maria he had four children:

• John I († June 28, 1279), 1249 Count of Blois, Chartres and Dunois , Lord of Avesnes, Guise and Leuze; ⚭ 1254 Alix de Bretagne, * June 6, 1243, † August 2, 1288, daughter of Johann I , Duke of Bretagne ( House of France-Dreux )
• Guido II († March 12, 1289), 1249 Count of Saint-Pol, Lord of Ancre , Aubigny-en-Artois etc .; ⚭ before 1254 Mathilde von Brabant († September 29, 1288), daughter of Duke Heinrich II. Von Brabant , widow of Count Robert I von Artois
• Walter IV. († 1261), Lord of Châtillon , Crécy , Crèvecœur , Troissy and Marigny
• Hugo II († 1255)

After Mary's death, he married Mathilde de Guînes († 1262), daughter of Count Arnoul II of Guînes ( Ghent house ) and the Béatrix of Bourbourg, in his third marriage . This marriage also remained childless.

death

Count Hugo's death has been narrated through Matthew Paris . In 1248 Hugo followed King Louis IX's call . of the saint and was on his way to Marseille with a contingent of around 50 knights , where he wanted to embark on the Sixth Crusade in the Holy Land. A skirmish with rebellious villagers broke out near Avignon, in which Hugo was killed. Hugo von Châtillon was buried in the Pont-aux-Dames abbey he founded .

literature

• Detlev Schwennicke: European Family Tables Volume VII (1979) Plate 17

Footnotes

1. ↑ or April 1226 (see European Family Tables Volume III.1, 1984, Plate 50.)
2. ↑ Matthäus Paris, Chronica Majora , ed. by Henry Richards Luard in: Rolls Series 57 (1882), Vol. 5, pp. 92-93

predecessor	Office	successor
Margarete	Count of Blois and Dunois (de iure uxoris with Maria von Avesnes) 1231–1248	Johann I.
Guido I.	Count of Saint-Pol 1226-1248	Guido II.
Walter III.	Lord of Châtillon Lord of Crécy 1219–1248	Walter IV.