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John I
Duke of Brittany
Reign21 October 1221 - 8 October 1286
PredecessorPeter I & Alix
SuccessorJohn II
RegentPeter I
Earl of Richmond
Reign1268
PredecessorPeter of Savoy
SuccessorJohn II
Bornc. 1217/18
Died8 October 1286
Château de l'Isle
Burial
Prières Abbey
SpouseBlanche of Navarre
Issue
Among Others		John II
Peter, Lord of Hade
Alix, Countess of Blois
HouseHouse of Dreux
FatherPeter I
MotherAlix
ReligionRoman Catholicism

John I the Red (in Breton Yann Iañ ar Ruz, in French Jean I le Roux) (c. 1217/18 – 8 October 1286), known as John the Red due to the colour of his beard, was Duke of Brittany, from 1237 to his death. He was son of Duke Peter I and Alix of Thouars, heiress of the duchy.

Life

John was nominal duke from 1221, date of his mother’s death, although his father ruled as regent until he reached adulthood.

He experienced a number of conflicts with the Bishop of Nantes and the Breton clergy. In 1240, he issued an edict expelling Jews from the duchy and cancelling all debts to them.[1] He joined Louis IX of France in the Eighth Crusade (1270), and survived the plague that killed the king. The duchy of Brittany experienced a century of peace, beginning with John I and ending with Duke John III's reign in 1341.[2]

Marriage and issue

In 1236 John married Infanta Blanche, daughter of King Theobald I of Navarre.[3] They had the following surviving issue:

Ancestry

Family of John I, Duke of Brittany
16. Louis VI of France
8. Robert I of Dreux
17. Adélaide de Maurienne
4. Robert II of Dreux
18. Guy de Baudement
9. Agnes de Baudemont, countess of Braine
19. Alix, Dame de Braine
2. Peter I, Duke of Brittany
20. Enguerrand II, Lord of Coucy
10. Ralph I, Lord of Coucy
21. Agnes de Baugency
5. Yolande de Coucy
22. Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut
11. Agnes of Hainaut
23. Alice of Namur
1. John I, Duke of Brittany
24. Aimery V, Viscount of Thouars
12. Geoffroy IV, Viscount of Thouars
25. Agnes of Aquitaine
6. Guy of Thouars
26. Hugh VII of Lusignan
13. Aimée de Lusignan
27. Saracena
3. Alix of Thouars
28. Alan, 1st Earl of Richmond
14. Conan IV, Duke of Brittany
29. Bertha, Duchess of Brittany
7. Constance, Duchess of Brittany
30. Henry of Scotland
15. Margaret of Huntingdon
31. Ada de Warenne

References

  1. ^ Michael Jones, The Creation of Brittany:A Late Medieval State, (The Hambledon Press, 1988), 140.
  2. ^ Michael Jones, The Creation of Brittany:A Late Medieval State, 34.
  3. ^ Elizabeth M. Hallam and Judith Everard, Capetian France, 987-1328, (Longman, 2001), 273.

See also

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John I, Duke of Brittany
Regnal titles
Preceded by Duke of Brittany
1237–1286 		Succeeded by
Peerage of England
Preceded by Earl of Richmond
1268 		Succeeded by
John de Dreux
(John I resigned in his favor
before he became John II)

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