Individual Details
Robert III, Count of Dreux
(1185 - 1234)
According to Wikipedia:
Robert III of Dreux (1185-1234), Count of Dreux and Braine, was the son of Robert II, Count of Dreux, and Yolanda de Coucy.[1] He was given the byname Gasteblé (lit. wheat-spoiler) when he destroyed a field of wheat while hunting in his youth.
Along with his brother Peter, Duke of Brittany he fought with future Louis VIII of France in 1212 at Nantes and was captured there during a sortie.[2] Exchanged after the Battle of Bouvines for William Longsword, Earl of Salisbury, he fought in the Albigensian Crusade, besieging Avignon in 1226. He was a supporter of Blanche of Castile during her regency after the death of Louis VIII in 1226.
In 1210 he married Alianor de St. Valéry (1192-15 Nov 1250) and they had several children:
Yolande of Dreux (1212-1248), who married Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy[3]
John I (1215-1249), later Count of Dreux.[3]
Robert (1217-1264), Viscount of Châteaudun.
Peter (1220-1250), a cleric.
Notes
Theodore Evergates, The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), 229.
Sidney Painter, William Marshal, Knight-Errant, Baron, and Regent of England, (University of Toronto Press, 1982), 254.
Michelle Bubenicek, Quand les femmes gouvernent: droit et politique au XIVe siècle:Yolande de Flandre, Droit et politique au XIV siecle, (Ecole des Chartes, 2002), 54-55.
References
Bubenicek, Michelle, Quand les femmes gouvernent: droit et politique au XIVe siècle:Yolande de Flandre, Droit et politique au XIV siecle, Ecole des Chartes, 2002
Evergates, Theodore, The aristocracy in the county of Champagne, 1100-1300, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
Painter, Sidney, William Marshal, Knight-Errant, Baron, and Regent of England, University of Toronto Press, 1982.
Robert III of Dreux (1185-1234), Count of Dreux and Braine, was the son of Robert II, Count of Dreux, and Yolanda de Coucy.[1] He was given the byname Gasteblé (lit. wheat-spoiler) when he destroyed a field of wheat while hunting in his youth.
Along with his brother Peter, Duke of Brittany he fought with future Louis VIII of France in 1212 at Nantes and was captured there during a sortie.[2] Exchanged after the Battle of Bouvines for William Longsword, Earl of Salisbury, he fought in the Albigensian Crusade, besieging Avignon in 1226. He was a supporter of Blanche of Castile during her regency after the death of Louis VIII in 1226.
In 1210 he married Alianor de St. Valéry (1192-15 Nov 1250) and they had several children:
Yolande of Dreux (1212-1248), who married Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy[3]
John I (1215-1249), later Count of Dreux.[3]
Robert (1217-1264), Viscount of Châteaudun.
Peter (1220-1250), a cleric.
Notes
Theodore Evergates, The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), 229.
Sidney Painter, William Marshal, Knight-Errant, Baron, and Regent of England, (University of Toronto Press, 1982), 254.
Michelle Bubenicek, Quand les femmes gouvernent: droit et politique au XIVe siècle:Yolande de Flandre, Droit et politique au XIV siecle, (Ecole des Chartes, 2002), 54-55.
References
Bubenicek, Michelle, Quand les femmes gouvernent: droit et politique au XIVe siècle:Yolande de Flandre, Droit et politique au XIV siecle, Ecole des Chartes, 2002
Evergates, Theodore, The aristocracy in the county of Champagne, 1100-1300, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
Painter, Sidney, William Marshal, Knight-Errant, Baron, and Regent of England, University of Toronto Press, 1982.
Events
| Birth | 1185 | ||||
| Marriage | 1210 | Alianor de St. Valéry | |||
| Death | 1234 |
Families
| Spouse | Alianor de St. Valéry (1192 - 1250) |
| Child | Robert of Dreux, Viscount of Châteaudun (1217 - 1264) |
| Father | Robert II, Count of Dreux (1154 - 1218) |
| Mother | Yolanda de Coucy (1164 - 1222) |
| Sibling | Eleanor de Dreux ( - ) |
| Sibling | Peter I, Duke of Brittany (1187 - 1250) |
| Sibling | Philippa of Dreux (1192 - 1242) |