John of Luxembourg (''Jean de Luxembourg'') ( – bef. 2 July 1397, ItalyDouglas Richardson. ''Royal Ancestry, Vol. V''. p. 422.), was Lord of Beauvoir (or

Beaurevoir Beaurevoir is a commune in the department of Aisne in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Population See also * Communes of the Aisne department The following is a list of the 796 communes in the French department of Aisne. The co ...

) and Richebourg, and also (as ''John II'')

Count of Brienne The County of Brienne was a medieval county in France centered on Brienne-le-Château. Counts of Brienne * Engelbert I (c. 950 – c. 968) * Engelbert II (c. 968 – c. 990) * Engelbert III (c. 990 – c. 1008) * Engelbert IV (c. 10 ...

and

Conversano Conversano (Bari dialect, Barese: ) is an ancient town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia, south-eastern Italy. It is southeast of Bari and from the Adriatic Sea, Adriatic coast, at above sea level. The counts of Conversan ...

(). He was a member of the French branch of the

House of Luxembourg The House of Luxembourg (; ; ) 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 kings of Germany and Holy Roman emperors as well as kings of Bohemia, List of r ...

, the son of Guy I of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny and Mahaut de Châtillon (1335–1378), Countess of Saint-Pol. Blessed

Pierre de Luxembourg Pierre de Luxembourg (19 July 1369 – 2 July 1387) was a French people, French Catholic Church, Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Metz. He is Veneration, venerated in the Catholic Church as a Beatification, blessed, having been beatif ...

was his brother. John married around 1387 with Margaret, Countess of Brienne, daughter of Louis of Enghien, heiress of the counties of Brienne and of Conversano, and the Lordship of

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. They had: * Peter I of Luxembourg (1390 – 31 August 1433),

Count of Saint-Pol The county of Saint-Pol (or ''Sint-Pols'') was a county around the French city of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise (''Sint-Pols-aan-de-Ternas'') on the border of Artois and Picardy, formerly the county of Ternois. For a long time the county belonged to Fl ...

and

* John II of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny (1392 – 5 January 1441), inherited the title of Beauvoir from his father, and the title of Ligny from his aunt, Jeanne of Luxembourg. *

Louis of Luxembourg Louis of Luxembourg; (died 1443). Bishop of Therouanne 1415–1436, Archbishop of Rouen, 1436, Bishop of Ely 1437, Cardinal (Catholicism), Cardinal. The youngest son of John Count of Luxembourg, Lord of Beauvoir, d. 1397 and Marguerite, Counte ...

(died 18 September 1443). He was a statesman and a high-ranking churchman. * Catherine of Luxembourg (born c. 1393) * Jeanne of Luxembourg (died 1420), married firstly, on 8 September 1415, Louis, Seigneur de Ghistelles (killed at the

Battle of Agincourt The Battle of Agincourt ( ; ) was an English victory in the Hundred Years' War. It took place on 25 October 1415 (Saint Crispin's Day) near Azincourt, in northern France. The unexpected victory of the vastly outnumbered English troops agains ...

); she married secondly on 28 October 1419, Jean IV, Viscount of Melun, Constable of Flanders.

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GeneAll.net

Genealogical database by Herbert Stoyan
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