Charles de Bourbon (1401 – 4 December 1456) was the oldest son of
John I, Duke of Bourbon and
Marie, Duchess of Auvergne.
Biography
Charles was
Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis from 1424, and
Duke of Bourbon
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and
Auvergne from 1434 to his death, although due to the imprisonment of
his father
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after the
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, he acquired control of the duchy more than eighteen years before his father's death.
In 1425, Charles renewed his earlier betrothal by marrying
Agnes of Burgundy (1407–1476), daughter of
John the Fearless.
Charles served with distinction in the Royal army during the
Hundred Years' War
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, while nevertheless maintaining a truce with his brother-in-law and otherwise enemy,
Philip III, Duke of Burgundy. Both dukes were reconciled and signed an alliance by 1440. He was present at the coronation of
Charles VII where he fulfilled the function of a peer and conferred knighthood.
Despite this service, he took part in the "
Praguerie" (a revolt by the French nobles against
Charles VII) in 1439–1440. When the revolt collapsed, he was forced to beg for mercy from the King, and was stripped of some of his lands. He died on his estates at
Château de
Moulins in 1456.
Children
Charles and Agnes had eleven children:
*
John of Bourbon (1426–1488), Duke of Bourbon
*
Marie de Bourbon (1428–1448), married in 1444
John II, Duke of Lorraine
* Philip of Bourbon (1430–1440), Lord of
Beaujeu
*
Charles of Bourbon (Château de Moulins 1433–1488,
Lyon), Cardinal and
Archbishop of Lyon and Duke of Bourbon
*
Isabella of Bourbon (1434–1465), married
Charles, Duke of Burgundy
*
Peter of Bourbon, (1438–1503, Château de Moulins), Duke of Bourbon
*
Louis of Bourbon (1438 – August 30, 1482, murdered),
Prince-Bishop of Liège
*
Margaret of Bourbon (February 5, 1439 – 1483, Château du Pont-Ains), married in Moulins on April 6, 1472,
Philip II, Duke of Savoy
*
Catharine of Bourbon (
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, 1440 – May 21, 1469,
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), married on December 28, 1463, in
Bruges Adolf II, Duke of Guelders
* Joanna of Bourbon (1442–1493,
Brussels), married in Brussels in 1467
John II of Chalon,
Prince of Orange
* James of Bourbon (1445–1468, Bruges), unmarried.
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1401 births
1456 deaths
House of Bourbon (France)
Dukes of Bourbon
Dukes of Auvergne
Counts of Forez
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Burials at Souvigny Priory
15th-century peers of France
People of the Hundred Years' War