Jump to content

Waleran III, Count of Ligny

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by GünniX (talk | contribs) at 06:41, 15 October 2016 (Reference list duplication). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Waleran III of Luxembourg
Count of Ligny and Saint-Pol
Reign1371 - 1415
PredecessorGuy I
SuccessorPhilip
Born1355
Died(1415-04-12)12 April 1415
SpouseMaud Holland (c.1374 - 1392)
Bona of Bar (c.1392 - 1400)
IssueJeanne of Luxembourg
HouseHouse of Luxemburg
FatherGuy of Luxembourg
MotherMahaut of Châtillon

Waleran III of Luxembourg (1355 – 12 April 1415) Count of Ligny and Saint Pol, was a French nobleman and soldier.

Life

He was the son of Guy of Luxembourg and Mahaut of Châtillon.[1] He succeeded his father in 1371, after his death at the Battle of Baesweiler. Waleran was captured at the same battle, but released through the intercession of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor. In 1374, he was captured by the English before Ardres and sent to Windsor as a prisoner. The English attempted to exchange him for Jean III de Grailly, captal de Buch, but without success. In 1380, while a captive, he married Maud Holland (d. 1392), daughter of Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent and Joan of Kent and stepdaughter of Edward, the Black Prince.[2] This allowed him to negotiate down his ransom, and he was released soon afterwards. Maud bore him a daughter, Jeanne (d. 1407), who married Antoine, Duke of Brabant in 1401.[3]

After Maud's death, he married Bona of Bar (d. 1400), daughter of Duke Robert of Bar and Marie of Valois (daughter of John II of France), but had no issue by her. He was one of the peace commissioners sent to London in 1396, and made a futile attack on the English at Mercq near Calais in 1405.[4] He was of the party of Philip II, Duke of Burgundy, marrying his daughter to Philip's son Antoine. Under the Burgundians he obtained preferment, becoming Grand Maitre de Eaux et Forests, the governor of Paris in 1410, and Constable of France in 1411. However, he lost the Constableship and was driven from Paris with the rest of the Burgundians in 1413. He died in 1415 and was succeeded by his grandson Philip of Saint-Pol.

Ancestors

Family of Waleran III, Count of Ligny
16. Waleran I of Luxembourg, Lord of Ligny
8. Waleran II of Luxembourg, Lord of Ligny
17. Joanna of Beauvoir
4. John I of Luxembourg
18. John IV of Lille
9. Guyotte of Lille
19. Béatrix of Clemnont
2. Guy of Luxembourg
20. William IV of Dendermonde
10. Guy V of Richebourg
21. Alix of Beaumont
5. Alix of Dampierre
22. Nicholas III of Putten
11. Beatrix of Putten
23. Aleida of Strijen
1. Waleran III of Luxembourg
24. Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol
12. Guy III of Chatillon
25. Matilda of Brabant
6. John of Châtillon, Count of Saint-Pol
26. John II, Duke of Brittany
13. Marie of Brittany, Countess of Saint-Pol
27. Beatrice of England
3. Mahaut of Châtillon
28. William II of Fiennes
14. John of Fiennes, Lord of Tingry
29. Blanche of Brienne
7. Joanna of Fiennes
30. Guy, Count of Flanders
15. Isabella of Dampierre
31. Isabelle of Luxembourg

References

  1. ^ (FR)Michelle Bubenicek, Quand les femmes gouvernent: droit et politique au XIVe siècle, (Ecole de Chartes, 2002), 262.
  2. ^ "The Quarrel of Old Women": Henry IV, Louis of Orleans, and Anglo-French Chivalric Challenges in the Early Fifteenth Century, Chris Given-Wilson, The Reign of Henry IV: Rebellion and Survival, 1403-1413, ed. Gwilym Dodd and Douglas Biggs, (York Medieval Press, 2008), 36.
  3. ^ Richard Vaughan, Philip the Bold, (The Boydell Press, 2009), 90.
  4. ^ "The Quarrel of Old Women": Henry IV, Louis of Orleans, and Anglo-French Chivalric Challenges in the Early Fifteenth Century, Chris Given-Wilson, 37.


Waleran III, Count of Ligny
Born: 1355 Died: 25 October 1415
French nobility
Preceded by Count of Ligny
1371 – 1415 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Count of Saint Pol
1378 – 1415
Political offices
Preceded by Constable of France (Burgundian)
1411 – 1413
Disputed by Charles I of Albret 		Succeeded by
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Waleran_III,_Count_of_Ligny&oldid=744439176"