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Robert I of Dreux

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Robert I
Count of Dreux
Reign 1137-1184
Successor Robert II
Born c. 1123
Died 11 October 1188 (aged 64–65)
probably Braine
Spouse Agnes of Garlande
Hawise of Salisbury
Agnes of Baudemont
Issue
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Adele of Dreux
Robert II of Dreux
House House of Dreux
Father Louis VI of France
Mother Adelaide of 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 of 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 of 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 of Garlande (1122–1143), daughter of Anseau of 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 of Baudemont, countess of Braine, widow of Milo III of Bar-sur-Seine (1130 – c. 1202).[6]

References

Bibliography

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  • Dyggve, Holger Petersen (1942). "Personnages historiques figurant dans la poésie lyrique française des XII e et XIII e siècles XIV: Identification de Noblet, ami de Conon de Béthune, Gace Brulé et Pierre de Molins". Neuphilologische Mitteilungen (in French). 43 (1): 7-20.
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  • Michel, Edmond (1902). Histoire de la ville de Brie-Comte-Robert (in French). Vol. 1. Dujarric & Cie.
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  • Pollock, M. A. (2015). Scotland, England and France After the Loss of Normandy, 1204-1296: Auld Amitie. Boydell & Brewer.
  • Power, Daniel (2004). The Norman frontier in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Cambridge University Press.
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  • Wood, Charles T. (1966). The French Apanages and the Capetian Monarchy, 1224-1328. Harvard University Press.
Robert I of Dreux
House of Dreux
Cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty
Born: c. 1123 Died: 11 October 1188
New creation Count of Dreux
1137–1184
Succeeded by
Robert II