Jean of Burgundy

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Duke of Burgundy. "Sans Peur" (the Fearless). "[A] crusader, acquired Boulogne and other cities for Burgundy, exploiting the weaknesses of France and the Empire to aggrandize Burgundy, cauased the murder of Duke Louis of Orléans in 1407, virtual ruler of France 1408-13 but assassinated by his enemy the Dauphin." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)]

Jean married Margareta of Bavaria on 12 Apr 1385 in Cambrai, Hauts-de-France, France. Margareta (daughter of Albrecht I and Margareta von Schliesen-Brieg) was born in 1363; died on 24 Jan 1424 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Burgundy, France; was buried in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Burgundy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Marie of Burgundy was born in Jan 1394; died on 30 Oct 1463 in Burg Monterberg near Kalkar, Kleves, Westphalia, Germany; was buried in Bruges, Belgium.

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Duke of Burgundy. "Le Hardi" (the Bold). "[S]urpassed by few in political and administrative talent in his time, he maintained power in France to the advantage of his house in Burgundy and Flanders, and created a Burgundian state and court with a substantial body of literary, artistic, and architectural patronage." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)]

Philippe married Marguerite of Flanders on 19 Jun 1369 in Ghent, Flanders. Marguerite (daughter of Louis III and Margaretha of Brabant) was born on 13 Apr 1350 in Male, near Bruges, Belgium; died on 21 Mar 1405 in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France; was buried in Lille, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"[S]killed in matters of state, shared her husband's interests in book collecting." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)]

Jean married Jutta de Luxemburg on 28 Jul 1332 in Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France. Jutta (daughter of John, King of Bohemia and Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia) was born on 20 May 1315 in Prague, Bohemia; died on 11 Sep 1349 in Maubuisson Abbey near Pontoise, near Paris, France; was buried in Maubuisson Abbey near Pontoise, near Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Bonne de Luxemburg.

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• Alternate birth: 29 Nov 1330, Male, Near Bruges, Belgium

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Count of Flanders. Count of Rethel.

"Peer of France, able, unscrupulous and autocratic, he increased the political and economic power of Flanders, his authority ended when urban revolt starting in Ghent and spreading throughout Flanders, was finally suppressed in 1382 by his French allies at the battle of Roosebeke (Westrozebeke), where the rebel Flemish army was slaughtered." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)]

Louis married Margaretha of Brabant on 6 Jun 1347 in St. Quentin, Aisne, Picardie, France. Margaretha (daughter of Jan III of Brabant and Marie d'Evreux) was born on 9 Feb 1323; died in 1368. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"[F]irst of the Valois kings, he declared in 1337 that Guyenne was foreited, initiating the Hundred Years War, at his defeat by Edward III at Crécy the slain included over 1500 of his lords and nobles, Calais was lost to the English the following year, the spread of the Black Death in 1348 and 1349 overshadowed the final years of his reign." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)]

Philip married Jean of Burgundy, Queen Consort of France in Jul 1313 in Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France. Jean (daughter of Robert II of Burgundy and Agnes of France) was born in 1293; died on 12 Dec 1349 in Paris, France; was buried in Abbey of Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Called "la Boiteuse" (the Lame). Died of the plague.

"[I]ntelligent, educated, strong-willed, venemous, frequently consulted by her husband, regent of France 1338." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)]

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"[A] knightly adventurer, he used his Bohemian kingdom to finance his constant schemes and intrigues, that sometimes were successful through a combination of energy, ability, and luck, his campaigns took him throughout Europe, to include three Crusades against the Lithuanians, slain as a French ally at the battle of Crécy." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)]

John married Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia on 30 Aug 1310 in Speyer Cathedral, Speyer, Germany. Elizabeth (daughter of Wenceslas II, King of Bohemia and Guta von Habsburg) was born on 20 Jan 1292 in Prague, Bohemia; died on 28 Sep 1330 in Vyšehrad, Prague, Bohemia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"[A]s queen took an active role in politics, siding at times with the Bohemian lords against her husband, his suspicions of her loyalty led to an irreparable breach during the last decade of her life." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)]

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Count of Flanders. Killed at the battle of Crécy.

Louis married Marguerite of France on 21 Jul 1320. Marguerite (daughter of Philippe V, King of France and Jeanne of Burgundy) was born in 1310; died on 9 May 1382. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Duke of Brabant and Limburg.

Jan married Marie d'Evreux about 19 Jul 1311. Marie (daughter of Louis and Marguerite d'Artois) was born about 1303; died on 31 Oct 1335. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Valois. Count of Anjou by his marriage to Margaret of Anjou. Through his later marriage to Catherine I, titular empress of the Latin Empire, he was titular Latin Emperor of Constantinople from 1301 to 1307, though he ruled from exile and exerted authority only over the Crusader states in Greece.

"[A]n irresponsible adventurer, he did the papal cause little good when campaigning in Sicily as Captain-General for the Church." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)]

Charles married Margaret of Anjou on 16 Aug 1290 in Corbeil, near Paris, France. Margaret (daughter of Charles II, King of Naples, Sicily, and Jerusalem and Maria I, Queen of Hungary) was born in 1272; died on 31 Dec 1299; was buried in Church of St. Jacques, Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1273

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Countess of Anjou and Maine in her own right; Countess of Valois, Alençon, Chartres, and Perche by marriage.

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"[T]itular King of Thessalonica, an ally of Rudolph I, first of the Hapsburg emperors, served on Philip IV's council and campaigned with him in Flanders." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)]

Robert married Agnes of France in 1279. Agnes (daughter of St. Louis IX, King of France and Margaret of Provence, Queen Consort of France) was born about 1260; died on 19 Dec 1325 in Château de Lantenay, Côte-d'Or, Burgundy, France; was buried in Abbey of Cîteaux, Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Burgundy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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As Henry IV, Count of Luxembourg.

Henry married Margareta of Brabant on 9 Jun 1292 in Tervuren, Brabant. Margareta (daughter of Jan I of Brabant and Margarethe of Flanders) was born on 4 Oct 1276; died on 14 Dec 1311 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy; was buried in Pisa Cathedral, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Wenceslas married Guta von Habsburg on 24 Jan 1285 in Eger, Heves, Hungary. Guta (daughter of Rudolf IV von Habsburg and Gertrude von Hohenberg) was born on 13 Mar 1271; died on 18 Jun 1297 in Prague, Bohemia; was buried in Prague, Bohemia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Dona. Countess of Habsburg.

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Count of Rethel.

Louis married Jeanne in Dec 1290. Jeanne (daughter of Hugues IV and Isabelle de Grandpré) died after 12 Mar 1328. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Countess of Rethel.

Philippe married Jeanne of Burgundy in Jan 1306. Jeanne (daughter of Otto V and Mathilde d'Artois) was born between 1291 and 2 Mar 1294; died on 21 Jan 1329. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Duke of Brabant and Limburg.

Jan married Margaret of England on 9 Jul 1290 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England. Margaret (daughter of Edward I, King of England and Eleanor of Castile, Queen Consort of England) was born on 15 Mar 1275 in Windsor, Berkshire, England; died after 11 Mar 1333 in Brabant; was buried in St. Gudule, Brussels, Flanders. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Evreux and Etampes.

Louis married Marguerite d'Artois in 1300. Marguerite (daughter of Philippe d'Artois and Blanche de Bretagne) was born about 1285; died on 24 Apr 1311. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Heiress of Brie-Comte-Robert.

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• Alternate birth: 30 Apr 1245

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Nicknamed "The Bold".

Philippe married Isabella of Aragon, Queen Consort of France on 28 May 1262 in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. Isabella (daughter of James I, King of Aragón and Violant of Hungary) was born between 1243 and 1247; died on 28 Jan 1271 in Cosenza, Calabria, Italy; was buried in Abbey of Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1247

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Died as a result of falling from a horse.

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• Alternate death: 6 May 1309

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Also count of Anjou.

Charles married Maria I, Queen of Hungary in 1270. Maria (daughter of Istvan V, King of Hungary and Erszebet of Kumania) was born about 1257; died on 25 Mar 1323 in Naples, Campania, Italy; was buried in Santa Maria Donna Regina, Naples, Campania, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Between 1257 and 1258

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"Duke of Burgundy 1218-1273, Count of Chalon-sur-Saone and Auxonne (France), titular king of Thessalonica (Greece) 1266." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz]

Hugh married Yolande of Dreux in 1229. Yolande (daughter of Robert III "Gasteblé" of Dreux and Alianor de St. Valéry) was born about 1212; died on 30 Oct 1248. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 25 Apr 1215, Poissy, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France

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Canonized 11 Aug 1297 by Boniface VIII; his feast day is 25 Aug. He led the Seventh Crusade, and died of dysentery while leading the Eighth Crusade.

From Matthew Gabriele and David Perry, "In St. Louis, History and Nostalgia Battle It Out", Smithsonian Magazine website, 9 Jul 2020:

Louis IX reigned over France in the middle of the 13th century. Like most medieval sovereigns, he implemented legal reforms and provided charity to the Christian poor. More significantly, Louis personally led two Crusades to North Africa against Muslims—the first to Egypt in 1248, and the second to Tunisia in 1270. These campaigns were simply a brief chapter in a much larger drama that saw Christians wage holy war throughout the Mediterranean world against Muslims, Jews, and sometimes their fellow Christians. The impact of the Crusades cannot be overstated, as this movement shaped the cultural, social, and economic direction of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East for centuries. Indeed, it continues to haunt the modern imagination.

Both of Louis IX’s Crusades failed spectacularly, with the king captured by the Egyptians and ransomed for an enormous sum in 1250 and dying of dysentery almost immediately upon arriving in Tunisia in 1270. Louis was canonized—largely for these efforts—in 1297, and he’s served as a symbol of France’s glorious past ever since. So, when French trappers established a fur-trading post on Cahokia lands in 1764, they named the site in honor of two kings: Louis IX and then-sovereign Louis XV. The settlement retained the name through French, Spanish and finally American occupation. […]

Louis IX’s acts as king certainly included care for the Christian poor—but they also encompassed moments of vicious anti-Judaism, including the burning of Talmuds in Paris in the 1240s; the arrest of all Jews in France and confiscation of their property in 1268; and the segregation of Christians and Jews, who were forced to wear a yellow star on their clothes as of 1269.

Louis married Margaret of Provence, Queen Consort of France on 27 May 1234 in Sens, Yonne, France. Margaret (daughter of Raymond Berenger and Beatrice of Savoy) was born in 1221 in Forcalquier, Alpes-de-Haut-Provence, France; died on 20 Dec 1295 in Faubourg St.-Marceau, Paris, France; was buried in Abbey of Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Luxembourg. He was killed alongside three of his brothers on 5 June 1288 at the Battle of Woeringen by a knight of Jan I, duke of Brabant and Limburg.

Henry married Beatrice de Beaumont d'Avesnes about 1260. Beatrice (daughter of Baudouin d'Avesnes and Félicité de Coucy) was born about 1258; died on 25 Feb 1321. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Duke of Brabant. Duke of Limburg.

Jan married Margarethe of Flanders about 5 Sep 1270. Margarethe (daughter of Guy de Dampierre and Mathilde de Béthune) was born about 1254; died on 3 Jul 1285. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Przemysl married Kunhata of Slavonia and Machva on 25 Oct 1261 in Bratislava, Slovakia. Kunhata (daughter of Rosztiszlo, King of Bulgaria; Grand Duke of Kiev and Anna of Hungary) was born about 1245; died on 9 Sep 1285. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Kinigunda of Halych.

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Count of Habsburg. Emperor-Elect.

Rudolf married Gertrude von Hohenberg in 1245. Gertrude (daughter of Burchard V von Hohenberg and Mechtild von Tübingen) was born in 1225; died on 16 Feb 1281. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Flanders.

Robert married Yolanda of Burgundy in Mar 1272. Yolanda (daughter of Eudes of Burgundy and Mahaut II de Dampierre) died on 2 Jun 1280. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Countess of Nevers.

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Count of Réthel.

Hugues married Isabelle de Grandpré before 8 Oct 1275. Isabelle (daughter of Henry V de Grandpré and Isabeau de Brienne) died before 4 Apr 1292. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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King of Navarre as Philip I, 1284-1305. King of France as Philip (Philippe) IV, 1285-1314.

Philippe married Joan, Queen of Navarre; Queen Consort of France on 16 Aug 1284 in Notre-Dame, Paris, France. Joan (daughter of Enrique I, King of Navarre and Blanche of Artois) was born on 14 Jan 1272 in Bar-sur-Seine, France; died on 2 Apr 1305 in Château de Vincennes, Val-de-Marne, Île-de-France, France; was buried in Church of the Grey Friars, Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 14 Jan 1271, Bar-sur-Aube, Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France
• Alternate death: 2 Apr 1304, Château de Vincennes, Val-de-Marne, Île-de-France, France

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Count Palatine of Burgundy.

Otto married Mathilde d'Artois before 1 May 1291. Mathilde (daughter of Robert II and Amicie de Courtenay) was born about 1268; died on 27 Oct 1329 in Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Heiress of Artois.

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• Alternate birth: 18 Jun 1239, Westminster Palace, Westminster, Middlesex, England
• Alternate death: 8 Jul 1307, Burgh-by-Sands, Carlisle, Cumberland, England

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Edward Longshanks, Hammer of the Scots, conqueror of Wales. Although he is acclaimed for his many administrative accomplishments and for establishing Parliament as a permanent institution, he also expelled the Jews from England; significant numbers of them returned only 350 years later. He was tall (6' 4"), personally intimidating, and rigid in personal morality, in marked contrast to most earlier post-Conquest English rulers.

Edward married Eleanor of Castile, Queen Consort of England on 18 Oct 1254 in Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain. Eleanor (daughter of St. Fernando III, King Of Castile, León, Galicia, Toledo, Córdoba, Jaén, and Seville and Jeanne de Dammartin) was born in 1240; died on 28 Nov 1290 in Hardby, Nottinghamshire, England; was buried in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1241, Burgos, Castile, Spain
• Alternate birth: Abt 1241

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Countess of Ponthieu.

Eleanor of Castile, first wife of Edward I, was a daughter of Ferdinand III, King of Castile, Leon, and Galicia, and the French noblewoman Jeanne de Dammartin, suo jure Countess of Ponthieu. Although her marriage (in 1254) to then-prince Edward was a political match designed to affirm English control of Gascony, the couple were unusually close; she even accompanied Edward on the Fourth Crusade, where he was wounded at Acre in Palestine. She was notably well-educated and maintained her own scriptorium, the only one in northern Europe at the time. Her preference for Spanish-style home decorations, kitchen utensils, and personal comforts had a great influence on English domestic life. She brought a considerable personal fortune to her marriage, and increased it all her life through shrewd purchases of lands and manors. Although this had a negative effect on her personal popularity, her husband always encouraged her in it.

Her heart was buried in the Dominican priory of Blackfriars in London, along with that of her son Alphonso. Her entrails were buried in Lincoln Cathedral.

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• Alternate birth: 30 Apr 1245

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Nicknamed "The Bold".

Philippe married Marie of Brabant, Queen Consort of France on 21 Aug 1274. Marie (daughter of Henri III of Brabant and Alix of Burgundy) was born about 1256 in Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Flanders; died on 12 Jan 1322 in Les Mureaux, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France; was buried in Church of the Franciscans, Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 12 Jan 1321

Philippe married Blanche de Bretagne after Nov 1281. Blanche (daughter of Jean II and Beatrice of England) was born about 1270; died on 19 Mar 1327 in Château de Bois-de-Vincennes, Paris, France; was buried in St. Jacques, Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]