Guy de Bretagne de Penthièvre or Guy VII de Limoges (1287 – March 27, 1331), was

Viscount of Limoges Between Limoges, Brive and Périgueux, the viscounts of Limoges (), also called viscounts of Ségur created a small principality, whose last heir was Henry IV. Ségur was the main home of these viscounts, in the heart of their domain. The vis ...

from 1314 to 1317 and

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from 1317 to 1331.

Life

Guy was born in

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, the second son of the Duke of Brittany Arthur II and Marie, Viscountess of Limoges.

Dispute with the Breton Duke

Guy's brother Duke John III of Brittany married Isabella of Castile, and as a marriage gift, gave her the

viscounty of Limoges Between Limoges, Brive and Périgueux, the viscounts of Limoges (), also called viscounts of Ségur created a small principality, whose last heir was Henry IV. Ségur was the main home of these viscounts, in the heart of their domain. The vis ...

. Guy refused to ratify the gift of this property, inherited from their mother, to which he himself had rights. After several years of marriage, while Isabelle remained childless, Duke John III invested his brother in March 1314 with the contested viscounty. Isabelle protested to the Pope, who by a

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on 1 September 1314 invited the Duke to restore her domain. She recovered the viscounty in 1317. John III in turn compensated his brother with the county of Penthièvre.

First marriage

In 1318, Guy married Jeanne d'Avaugour (1300–1327), lady of Goëlo, daughter of Henri, Lord of Avaugour, with whom he had one daughter: * Jeanne (1319–1384), countess de Penthièvre, then duchess of Brittany, married in 1337 to Charles de Blois-Châtillon (1319–1364) By uniting his own domains with those of his wife in Goëlo, Guy consolidated a significant political power in northern

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Second marriage

By 1327, Guy was a widower. He married

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, but following a complaint by his family and a resultant investigation carried out beginning February 10, 1330, by the bishops of

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and

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, the marriage was annulled by

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in 1330.

Third betrothal

On February 12, 1331, the pope authorized Guy to marry "during Lent" Marie de Blois, niece of

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. Guy died suddenly on Tuesday March 26, 1331, without remarrying. His rights passed to his daughter Jeanne de Penthièvre. He was buried in the

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' church in

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, the necropolis of his wife's family.J. Lebeuf, History of the ecclesiastical suburbs of Paris, p. 54, Prault, Paris, 1754.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Penthievre, Guy de 1287 births 1331 deaths 14th-century Breton people People of the Hundred Years' War 14th-century French nobility