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Louis
Count of Évreux
Tomb effigy of Louis d'Evreux now in the Basilica of St Denis (he was buried in the now-demolished church of the Couvent des Jacobins in Paris)
Born(1276-05-03)3 May 1276
Died19 May 1319(1319-05-19) (aged 43)
Paris
SpouseMargaret of Artois
HouseCapet
FatherPhilip III the Bold
MotherMaria of Brabant

Louis of Évreux (3 May 1276 – 19 May 1319, Paris) was a prince, the third son of King Philip III of France and his second wife Maria of Brabant,[1] and thus a half-brother of King Philip IV of France.

Louis had a quiet and reflective personality and was politically opposed to the scheming of his half-brother Charles of Valois. He was, however, close with his nephew Philip V of France.

He married Margaret of Artois, daughter of Philip of Artois and sister of Robert III of Artois, and had five children:

  1. Marie (1303 – 31 October 1335), married in 1311 John III, Duke of Brabant
  2. Charles (1305–1336), Count of Étampes married Maria de la Cerda, Lady of Lunel, daughter of Fernando de la Cerda.
  3. Philip III of Navarre (1306–1343), married Joan II of Navarre.[2]
  4. Margaret (1307–1350), married in 1325 William XII of Auvergne
  5. Joan (1310–1370), married Charles IV of France[2]

Ancestry

Family of Louis, Count of Évreux
16. Philip II Augustus of France
8. Louis VIII of France
17. Isabelle of Hainaut
4. Louis IX of France
18. Alfonso VIII of Castile
9. Blanche of Castile
19. Eleonor of England
2. Philip III of France
20. Alfonso II of Provence
10. Ramon Berenguer IV of Provence
21. Garsenda of Sabran and Forcalquier
5. Marguerite of Provence
22. Thomas I of Savoy
11. Beatrice of Savoy
23. Marguerite of Geneva
1. Louis d'Évreux
24. Henry I, Duke of Brabant
12. Henry II, Duke of Brabant
25. Maud of Boulogne
6. Henry III, Duke of Brabant
26. Philip of Swabia, King of Germany
13. Marie of Hohenstaufen
27. Irene Angelina of Byzantium
3. Maria of Brabant
28. Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy
14. Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy
29. Alix of Vergy
7. Adelaide of Burgundy
30. Robert III of Dreux
15. Yolande of Dreux
31. Aénor of Saint-Valéry

In fiction

Louis is a character in Les Rois maudits (The Accursed Kings), a series of French historical novels by Maurice Druon. He was portrayed by Robert Party in the 1972 French miniseries adaptation of the series.

References

  1. ^ Taylor, William Cooke, History of France and Normandy: from the earliest times to the year 1860, (J.B.Lippincott & Co., 1860), 501.
  2. ^ a b Evreux, John Bell Henneman Jr., Medieval France:An Encyclopedia, Ed. William F. Kibler, (Routledge, 1995), 328.
Louis, Count of Évreux
Born: 3 May 1276 Died: 19 May 1319
Vacant
Title last held by
Amaury IV 		Count of Évreux
1298–1319 		Succeeded by
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