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Robert I, Count of Dreux

Robert I, Count of Dreux

Count of Dreux (1137–1184)

Robert I of Dreux, nicknamed the Great (c. 1123 – 11 October 1188), was the fifth son of Louis VI of France and Adélaide de Maurienne.[1]

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Life

In 1137 he received the County of Dreux as an appanage from his father.[2] He held this title until 1184 when he granted it to his son Robert II.

In 1139 he married Agnes de Garlande.[3] In 1145, he married Hawise of Salisbury,[4] becoming count of Perche, as regent to his stepson Rotrou IV. By his third marriage to Agnes de Baudemont in 1152,[5] he received the County of Braine-sur-Vesle, and the lordships of Fère-en-Tardenois, Pontarcy, Nesle, Longueville, Quincy-en-Tardenois, Savigny, and Baudemont.[6]

Robert I participated in the Second Crusade and was at the Siege of Damascus in 1148.[7] He was credited for bringing the Damask rose from Syria to Europe.[8] In 1158, he fought against the English and participated in the Siege of Séez in 1154.

Marriages and children

1. Agnes de Garlande (1122–1143), daughter of Anseau de Garlande, count of Rochefort.[3]

  • Simon (1141 – bef. 1182), lord of La Noue

2. Hawise of Salisbury (1118–1152),[9] widow of Rotrou III and daughter of Walter Fitz Edward of Salisbury, Sheriff of Wiltshire

3. Agnes de Baudemont, Countess of Braine, widow of Milo III of Bar-sur-Seine (1130 – c. 1202).[6]

References

  1. [1]
    Previté-Orton 1979, p. 462.
  2. [2]
    Wood 1966, p. 7.
  3. [3]
    Michel 1902, p. 69.
  4. [4]
    Power 2004, p. 239.
  5. [5]
    Fedorenko 2013, p. 170.
  6. [6]
    Power 2004, p. 214.
  7. [7]
    Suger 2018, p. 167.
  8. [8]
    Selina Denman (25 May 2016). "The city gardener: the damask rose's history and appeal". The National News.
  9. [9]
    Guyotjeannin 2000, p. 16.
  10. [10]
    Dyggve 1935, p. 73.
  11. [11]
    Dyggve 1942, p. 11.
  12. [12]
    Pollock 2015, p. 92.
  13. [13]
    Gilbert of Mons 2005, p. 110.
  14. [14]
    Pollock 2015, p. 145.

Sources

  • Dyggve, Holger Petersen (1935). "Personnages historiques figurant dans la poésie lyrique française des XII e et XIII e siècles. III: Les dames du »Tournoiement» de Huon d'Oisi". Neuphilologische Mitteilungen. 36 (2).
  • Dyggve, Holger Petersen (1942). "Personnages historiques figurant dans la poésie lyrique française des XII e et XIII e siècles XIV: Identification de Noblet, ami de Conon de Béthune, Gace Brulé et Pierre de Molins". Neuphilologische Mitteilungen (in French). 43 (1): 7-20.
  • Fedorenko, Gregory (2013). "The Thirteenth Century Chronique De Normandie". In Bates, David (ed.). Anglo-Norman Studies XXXV: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2012. The Boydell Press.
  • Gilbert of Mons (2005). Chronicle of Hainaut. Translated by Napran, Laura. The Boydell Press.
  • Guyotjeannin, Olivier, ed. (2000). Le chartrier de l'abbaye prémontrée de Saint-Yved de Braine (1134-1250). Ecole des Chartes.
  • Michel, Edmond (1902). Histoire de la ville de Brie-Comte-Robert (in French). Vol. 1. Dujarric & Cie.
  • Previté-Orton, C. W. (1979). The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History. Vol. 1, The Later Roman Empire to the Twelfth Century (10th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  • Pollock, M. A. (2015). Scotland, England and France After the Loss of Normandy, 1204-1296: Auld Amitie. Boydell & Brewer.
  • Power, Daniel (2004). The Norman frontier in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Cambridge University Press.
  • Suger (2018). Selected Works of Abbot Suger of Saint Denis. The Catholic University of America Press.
  • Wood, Charles T. (1966). The French Apanages and the Capetian Monarchy, 1224-1328. Harvard University Press.
Robert I, Count of Dreux
Cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty
Born: c. 1123 Died: 11 October 1188
New creation Count of Dreux
1137–1184		 Succeeded by
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