Charles I, Count of Ligny, (1488–1530) was the ruling

Count of Ligny The Lords of Ligny, later Counts of Ligny, ruled the fief of Ligny-en-Barrois during the Middle Ages. In 1240, the seigniory of Ligny-en-Barrois was given by Henry II of Bar as the dowry of his daughter Marguerite, who married Henry V of Luxemburg ...

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Brienne The County of Brienne was a medieval county in France centered on Brienne-le-Château. Counts of Brienne * Engelbert I * Engelbert II * Engelbert III * Engelbert IV * Walter I (? – c. 1090) * Erard I (c. 1090 – c. 1120?) * Walter II ...

Early life

Born as the son of Anthony I, Count of Ligny, and his second wife, Françoise of Croÿ-Chimay. He belonged to the collateral branch of the

House of Luxembourg The House of Luxembourg ( lb, D'Lëtzebuerger Haus; french: Maison de Luxembourg; german: Haus Luxemburg) or Luxembourg dynasty was a royal family of the Holy Roman Empire in the Late Middle Ages, whose members between 1308 and 1437 ruled as king ...

Biography

In 1519, he succeeded his father as Count of

and Count of Ligny. Charles II, his great-grandson, was imprisoned after buying a copy of

William Byrd William Byrd (; 4 July 1623) was an English composer of late Renaissance music. Considered among the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he had a profound influence on composers both from his native England and those on the continent. He ...

's ''Gradualia'' on the basis of Catholic tensions eeds editing: William Byrd was born in 1539 or 1540

Marriage and issue

In 1510, he married Charlotte of Estouteville; they had the following children: * Anthony II (d. 8 February 1557) * Louis III, Count de Roussy (d. 11 May 1571) married Antoinette d'Amboise (1552); no issue * Jean,

Bishop of Pamiers The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pamiers, Couserans, and Mirepoix (Latin: ''Dioecesis Apamiensis, Couseranensis, et Mirapicensis''; French: ''Diocèse de Pamiers, Mirepoix, et Couserans'') is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church ...

(d. 1548) * George, Baron de Ghistelles (d. after 30 September 1537) * Guillemette married François de Vienne, Baron de Ruffey * Françoise (d. 17 June 1566), married firstly to

Bernhard III, Margrave of Baden-Baden Bernhard III, Margrave of Baden-Baden (7 October 1474 – 29 June 1536) inherited in 1515 part of his father's margraviate of Baden. He ruled his part from 1515 until 1536. His two brothers, Ernest and Philip inherited the other parts; after Phi ...

; married secondly to Adolf IV, Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden (1518-1556) * Antoinette (1525 – 30 September 1603), Abbess of Yerres * Marie (d. 15 March 1597), Abbess in Troyes Counts of Ligny Counts of Brienne House of Luxembourg 1448 births 1530 deaths 15th-century French people 16th-century French people {{France-noble-stub