Louis of Navarre

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Ludwig von Navarra (called Ludwig von Évreux and Ludwig von Beaumont ; * probably 1341; † 1376 ) was the youngest son of King Philip III. and Queen Joan II of Navarre . He was Count of Beaumont and titular Duke of Durazzo.

He concluded his first marriage in 1358 with Maria de Lizarazu, which was not recognized by his brother, King Charles II of Navarre , which is why the children from this connection were considered illegitimate.

In 1360 he received from his brother Charles the Evil the county of Beaumont-le-Roger, which was restored in the Treaty of Calais .

From 1366, through his marriage to Johanna von Anjou , Duchess of Durazzo , he himself bore the title of Duke of the Albanian Durazzo (Durrës), which he tried to recapture after the city had fallen into the hands of the Albanian Prince Karl Thopia in 1367 . He received support from both his brother and King Charles V of France , although he had fought alongside his brother against the French king in previous years. He also pledged his county of Beaumont-le-Roger to Charles V. In 1372 he led the Navarre Company (Compañía navarra), a mercenary force that was already in service in France, into the dispute, the number of which increased considerably in 1375 through recruits directly from Navarre. In the summer of 1376 he succeeded in conquering the city, but Ludwig could no longer use this success because he died shortly afterwards.

From his first marriage he had several children:

  • (I) Juana, baptized September 2, 1359 in Olite ; ⚭ Pedro de Laxage, † after February 13, 1392
  • (I) Carlos (Charles) de Beaumont, * probably 1361, † 1432, Seigneur de Saint-Martin , de Unx et de Beira , Connetable of Navarra; ⚭I Maria Ximenez de Urrea, daughter of Juan, Señor de Atrosillo  ; ⚭II 1407 Anne de Curton, Dame de Curton et de Guissens , daughter of Arnaud, Seigneur de Curton, and Jeanne d'Albret, Dame de Guiche
  • (I) Tristan, Canon of Pamplona
  • (I)? Luis

The marriage with Johanna von Anjou remained childless.

literature

  • Kenneth M. Setton (Ed.): A History of the Crusades: Volume III - The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries . Harry W. Hazard, editor. University of Wisconsin Press: Madison, 1975.
  • Detlev Schwennicke: European family tables . Volume II, 1984, plate 13

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Schwennicke names 1372 as the year of his death, most other sources however - corresponding to the reconquest of Durazzo - the year 1376.
  2. ↑ See Robert-Henri Bautier : Beaumont-le-Roger . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 1, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7608-8901-8 , Sp. 1758–1761.
personal data
SURNAME Louis of Navarre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ludwig of Évreux; Louis of Beaumont
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Beaumont-le-Roger
DATE OF BIRTH around 1341
DATE OF DEATH 1376