John of Artois, Count of Eu

John of Artois with his wife Isabelle de Melun

John of Artois (29 September 1321 – 1387), called "sans Terre" (Lackland), was the son of Robert III of Artois and Jeanne of Valois. The confiscation of his father's goods for attempted fraud in 1331 had left him without an inheritance.

In 1352, he was created Count of Eu, which had been confiscated at the execution of the previous holder, Raoul II of Brienne. He was badly wounded at the Battle of Poitiers on 19 September 1356, and was captured there by the English. Enormously rich his ransom was sold to the Black Prince by his captor Élie de Pommiers for 30,000 old écus.

He married Isabeau of Melun (1328–1389), daughter of John I of Melun, Count of Tancarville, on 11 July 1352 and had the following issue:

• Jeanne (1353–1420), married at the Château d'Eu on 12 July 1365 Simon de Thouars (d. 1365), Count of Dreux
• John of Artois (1355–1363), Lord of Peronne
• Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (1356–1387)
• Philip of Artois, Count of Eu (1357–1397)
• Charles (1359 – 15 April 1368)
• Isabeau (1361 – 26 June 1379)

References

• Anquetil, Louis-Pierre and Gallais (Jean-Pierre, M.), Vincent Marie Viénot, Histoire de France depuis les Gaulois jusqu'à la mort de Louis XVI, Rue Neuves Des Petit Champs, 1819.
• Froland, Louis, Memoires concernans le comté-pairi d'Eu, et ses usages pretendus locaux, 1722.
• Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert, North-eastern France, Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., 1890.
• Sumption, Jonathon, The Hundred Years War: Trial by Fire, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.

French nobility
Preceded by —	Count of Eu 1352–1387	Succeeded by Robert