Robert I, Count of Artois
| Robert I | |
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| Count of Artois | |
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| Born | 25 September 1216 |
| Died | 8 February 1250 |
| Spouse | Matilda of Brabant |
| Issue |
Blanche of Artois Robert II of Artois |
| Father | Louis VIII of France |
| Mother | Blanche of Castile |
Robert I (25 September 1216 – 8 February 1250), called the Good, was the first Count of Artois, the fifth (and second surviving) son of Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile.[1]
Life
He received Artois as an appanage, in accordance with the will of his father (died 1226) on attaining his majority in 1237 (aged twenty-one).[2] In 1240 Pope Gregory IX, in conflict with the Emperor Frederick II, offered to crown Robert as emperor in opposition to Frederick, but the French count refused to pretend to such a title.
Marriage
On 14 June 1237 Robert married Matilda, daughter of Henry II of Brabant and Marie of Hohenstaufen.[3]
They had two children:
Death
While participating in the Seventh Crusade, Robert died while leading a reckless attack on Al Mansurah, without the knowledge of his brother King Louis IX.[4] He and the Templars after fording a river, charged a Mamluk outpost in which the Mamluk commander, Fakhr-ad-Din Yusuf, was killed.[4] Enbolded by his success, Robert, the Templar knights, and a contingent of English troops charged into the town and became trapped in the narrow streets.[4] According to Jean de Joinville, he defended himself for some time in a house there, but was at last overpowered and killed.
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Notes
- ↑ Jean Dunbabin, Charles I of Anjou: Power, Kingship and State-Making in Thirteenth-Century, (Routledge, 2014), 244.
- ↑ Charles T. Wood, The French Apanages and the Capetian Monarchy, (Harvard University Press, 1966), 23.
- 1 2 (FR)Jean-François Nieus, Un pouvoir comtal entre Flandre et France: Saint-Pol, 1000-1300, (De Boeck & Larcier, 2005), 166, 176.
- 1 2 3 The Crusades of Louis IX, Joseph R. Strayer, A History of the Crusades, Vol. II, ed. Kenneth M. Setton, (University of Wisconsin, 1969), 499-501.
References
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- Jean Dunbabin, Charles I of Anjou: Power, Kingship and State-Making in Thirteenth-Century, Routledge, 2014.
- Jean-François Nieus, Un pouvoir comtal entre Flandre et France: Saint-Pol, 1000-1300, De Boeck & Larcier, 2005.
- A History of the Crusades, Vol. II, ed. Kenneth M. Setton, University of Wisconsin, 1969.
- Charles T. Wood, The French Apanages and the Capetian Monarchy, Harvard University Press, 1966.
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| New title | Count of Artois 1237–1250 |
Succeeded by Robert II |