Robert I, Count of Dreux
Robert I Capet
Bornc. 1123
Died11 October 1188(1188-10-11) (aged 64–65)
probably Braine
Noble familyHouse of Dreux
Spouse(s)Agnes de Garlande
Hawise of Salisbury
Agnes de Baudemont
FatherLouis VI of France
MotherAdélaide de Maurienne

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]

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

Sources

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  • 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.
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