Peter I (St. Pol and Brienne)

Pierre de Luxembourg in the Book of Arms of the Order of the Golden Fleece (The Hague, KB, 76 E 10, fol.43v)

Pierre I de Luxembourg (* 1390 ; † August 31, 1433 in Rambures an der Pest ) from the House of Luxemburg-Ligny was Count of Brienne and Conversano from 1397 to 1433 and Count of Saint-Pol from 1430.

Duke Philip III the good of Burgundy made Peter a founding member of the Order of the Golden Fleece in 1430 . John of Lancaster , who had married his daughter Jacqueline (Jacquetta) in 1433, gave him command of an army corps with which he besieged Saint-Valéry . He died of the plague in Rambures in 1433 . He was buried in a magnificent tomb in the Cercamp Abbey .

family

He was the son of Jean de Luxembourg (* 1370 † 1397), Seigneur de Beauvoir , and Marguerite d'Enghien, Countess of Brienne and Conversano, thus the grandson of Guy de Luxembourg , Count of Ligny , and Mahaut de Châtillon, Countess of Saint-Pol. His brothers were Chancellor Ludwig († 1443) and Count Johann II of Ligny († 1441).

In 1405 he married Marguerite des Baux (* 1394 † 1469), daughter of François des Baux (Francesco del Balzo), Duke of Andria , and Sueva Orsini. Your children were:

• Jacquetta († 1472); ⚭I John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford , † 1435; ⚭ II Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers , Knight of the Order of the Garter , † 1469 - Jacquetta and Richard Woodville are the in-laws of King Edward IV of England and Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford
• Louis (* 1418 † 1475), Comte de Saint-Pol, de Brienne, de Ligny, de Guise et de Conversano, Connétable of France  ; ⚭ I 1435 Jeanne de Bar (* 1415 † 1462), Comtesse de Marle et de Soissons  ; ⚭ II 1466 Maria von Savoyen (* 1448), daughter of Duke Ludwig ( House of Savoy )
• Catherine († 1492); ⚭ 1445 Arthur de Richemont († 1458), Constable of France , 1457 Duke of Brittany ( House of France-Dreux )
• Philippe, Abbess of Saint-Maixent
• Isabelle († 1472); ⚭ 1443 Charles IV d'Anjou (* 1414 † 1472), Duc du Maine ( Younger House Anjou )
• Thibaut († 1477), Seigneur de Fiennes et Comte de Brienne, 1465 Bishop of Le Mans  ; ⚭Philippote de Melun, † 1450, daughter of Jean IV. De Melun, burgrave of Ghent - descendants: the lords of Fiennes and dukes of Étampes and Penthièvre (1560 and 1569–1624)
• Jacques († 1487), Seigneur de Richebourg , Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece  ; ⚭ Isabelle de Roubaix, daughter of Pierre .
• Valéran, † small
• Jean, † in Africa

Web links

Commons : Pierre de Luxembourg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Material collection at genealogie-mittelalter.de

literature

• Raphaël De Smedt (ed.): Les chevaliers de l'ordre de la Toison d'or au XVe siècle. Notices bio-bibliographiques. 2nd édition entièrement revue et enrichie. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2000, ISBN 3-631-36017-7 , pp. 22-24 ( Kieler Werkstücke. Series D: Contributions to the European history of the late Middle Ages. Vol. 3).

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann II.	Count of Brienne and Conversano 1397–1433	Ludwig I.
Johanna	Count of Saint-Pol 1430–1433	Ludwig I.