Louis I, Count of Nevers explained

Louis I, Count of Nevers
Noble Family:House of Dampierre
Father:Robert III, Count of Flanders
Mother:Yolande II, Countess of Nevers
Spouse:Joan, Countess of Rethel
Issue:
Birth Date:1272
Death Place:Paris

Louis I (1272  - 22 July 1322) was suo jure Count of Nevers and jure uxoris Count of Rethel.

Louis was a son of Robert III, Count of Flanders,[1] and Yolande, Countess of Nevers.[2] He succeeded his parents as Count of Nevers. In December 1290, he married Joan, Countess of Rethel,[3] and thus became her co-ruler in the County of Rethel. They had two children:

He died in Paris shortly before his father and thus never succeeded his father as Count of Flanders.

Notes and References

  1. William H. TeBrake, A Plague of Insurrection: Popular Politics and Peasant Revolt in Flanders, 1323-1328 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993), 36.
  2. The Low Countries and the Disputed Imperial Election of 1314, Henry S. Lucas, Speculum, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Jan., 1946), 80.
  3. David M Nicholas, Medieval Flanders, (Taylor & Francis, 1992), 442.