Walram III. (Ligny and St. Pol)

Walram III. of Luxembourg (Valéran de Luxembourg; * around 1357 in Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise ; † April 12, 1415 in the Château d'Ivoy in Carignan ) was Count of Saint-Pol and Ligny , Lord of Roussy and Beauvoir from 1371 to 1415 He was the son of Guido of Luxembourg , Count of Ligny, and Mahaut de Châtillon, Countess of Saint-Pol.

He entered the service of the French King Charles V , but was taken prisoner by the English, during which he married Maud Holland († 1392), daughter of Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent and Joan of Kent , mother of King Richard II. , Widow of Hugo von Courtenay. Their daughter was Johanna von Luxemburg († 1407), who later became the wife of Anton von Burgund (1384-1415), Duke of Brabant and Limburg .

After the death of his wife, he married Bona von Bar († 1400) in 1393, daughter of Robert I , Duke of Bar and Maria of France. This marriage remained childless.

King Charles VI. commissioned him to negotiate the Treaty of London (1396) and made him Governor of Genoa the following year .

During the king's illness, Johann Ohnefurcht , Duke of Burgundy , whose loyal follower he was, made him Grand Maître des eaux et forêts in 1402 , in 1410 he made him military governor of Paris , and in the same year Bouteillier de France (royal cupbearer ) and on March 5, 1412 to the Constable of France . Walram established the Écorcheurs militia in Paris and fought several times against the Armagnacs in Normandy . In 1413 Bourguignons and with it Walram had to leave Paris. He died a short time later. His successor was the younger son of his daughter, Philip of Saint-Pol .

literature

• Louis Charles Dezobry and Théodore Bachelet : Dictionnaire de Biographie et d'Histoire, Paris 1863. Keyword: Waléran III de Luxembourg-Ligny,
• Jean Froissart : Chroniques, on the Internet: Saint-Pol (Comte de), Waleran (v.1355 - 1415).

predecessor	Office	successor
Guido	Count of Ligny Count of Saint-Pol 1371–1415	Philip of Burgundy