Louis I. de Bourbon
Louis I. de Bourbon , called le Boiteux ( the limping or the lame ), (* 1279 in Clermont , † January 29, 1341 in Paris ) was Count of Clermont from 1317 and from 1327 Count of La Marche and Duke of Bourbon . He also held the office of Grand Chamberlain of France .
Life
Louis I was the eldest son of Count Robert de Clermont and his wife Beatrice de Bourgogne , from whom he inherited the Seigneurie of Bourbon in 1310 . He took part in the Flanders Wars of King Philip IV the Fair , fought unsuccessfully in the Battle of Spurs (1302), but victorious at Mons-en-Pévèle (1304).
On December 27, 1327, Louis and King Charles IV the Handsome exchanged the County of Clermont for the County of La Marche . At the same time he was given the hereditary ducal dignity for Bourbon. This was the first time in France that such a rank was raised. Connected with this was the admission of Louis to the Pairs of France . When the ruling family of the Capetians died out in direct line in 1328 , Louis, as a distant cousin of the last king, belonged to the extended circle of successor candidates. In the election, however, he had no chance, since signs of mental illness were observed in him. At the side of the new king of the House of Valois , Philip VI. , he fought again against the Flemings in the Battle of Cassel (1328) .
Marriage and offspring
In 1310 he married in Pontoise Marie d'Avesnes († 1354), daughter of Count John II of Hainaut and Holland . The couple had the following children:
- Pierre I (around 1311; † died September 19, 1356 in the Battle of Maupertuis ), Duke of Bourbon
- Jeanne (* 1312; † December 30, 1402), ∞ with Guigues VII. , Count of Forez
- Beatrice († December 25, 1383), ∞ with John of Luxembourg , King of Bohemia
- Marguerite († 1362), ∞ with Jean II. De Sully
- Jacques I (* approx. 1319; † died April 6, 1362 in the Battle of Brignais ), Count of La Marche
- Marie (around 1318; † 1347 in Naples )
- ∞ with Guy de Lusignan († 1343), son of King Hugo IV of Cyprus
- ∞ with Robert of Taranto († 1364), titular emperor of Constantinople ( House of Anjou )
In addition, Louis had the illegitimate son Jean, the so-called "Bâtard de Bourbon". He was captured by the English in 1356 at the Battle of Maupertuis.
Dynastic meaning
Under Louis I, the Bourbon family split into the Montpensier and La Marche branches . The older branch, Montpensier, died out in 1527 with the death of the renegade Konnetabel von Bourbon ; From the surviving younger, Henry IV emerged as the first king of the House of Bourbon in 1553 .
Web links
- Manfred Hiebl: Ludwig I. the limping. Retrieved May 17, 2018 .
Individual proof
- ↑ Extraits de la Chronique attribuée a Jean Desnouelles, abbé de Saint-Vincent de Laon , in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 21 (1840), p. 191
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Robert de Clermont |
Earl of Clermont 1317-1327 |
Crown domain |
| Beatrix of Burgundy |
Lord and from 1327 Duke of Bourbon 1310–1341.svg) |
Pierre I. |
| Crown domain |
Count of La Marche 1327-1341 |
Jacques I. |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Louis I. de Bourbon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Louis I of Bourbon; Louis le Boiteux |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Duke of Bourbon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1279 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Clermont , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1341 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |