Guy I of Luxembourg-Ligny (1340 – 23 August 1371) was

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 Fla ...

(1360–1371) and

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 ...

, Lord of

Roussy Roussy-le-Village (; german: Rüttgen) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. See also * Communes of the Moselle department The following is a list of the 725 communes of the Moselle department of Fran ...

and Beauvoir (1364–1371). He was the son of John I and Alix of Dampierre, dame de Richebourg. Guy participated in the Battle of Baesweiler (present-day Germany), a conflict between his relative

Wenceslaus I of Luxembourg Wenceslaus I (also ''Wenceslas'', ''Venceslas'', ''Wenzel'', or ''Václav'', often called Wenceslaus of Bohemia in chronicles) (25 February 1337 – 7 December 1383) was the first Duke of Luxembourg from 1354. He was the son of John the Blind ...

, husband of the

Duchess of Brabant The Duke of Brabant (, ) was the ruler of the Duchy of Brabant since 1183/1184. The title was created by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in favor of Henry I, Duke of Brabant, Henry I of the House of Reginar, son of Godfrey III of Le ...

on the one side, and

William II, Duke of Jülich William II, Duke of Jülich ( – 13 December 1393) was the second Duke of Jülich and the sixth William in the House of Jülich. He was the second son of William I of Jülich and Joanna of Hainaut.Walther Möller, ''Stammtafeln westdeutscher ...

and Edward, Duke of Guelders on the other side.
The chronicler Jan van Boendale writes in his ''Brabantsche Yeesten'' that Guy lay wounded and abandoned on the battlefield, until he was discovered by a scavenger the next day, who killed and robbed him. When this plunderer tried later to sell his booty, he was hanged.

Marriage and children

In 1354 he married Mahaut de Châtillon (1335–1378), Countess of Saint-Pol, daughter of Jean de Châtillon-Saint-Pol and Jeanne de Fiennes,(FR)Michelle Bubenicek, ''Quand les femmes gouvernent: droit et politique au XIVe siècle'', (Ecole de Chartes, 2002), 262. and had: * Waleran III (1356–1415), Count of Ligny and of Saint-Pol *

Pierre Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

(1369–1387),

bishop of Metz Metz ( , , lat, Divodurum Mediomatricorum, then ) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers. Metz is the prefecture of the Moselle department and the seat of the parliament of the Grand E ...

and cardinal, beatified in 1527 * Margaret, married in 1377 Peter of Enghien, died in 1384, and in 1396 with Jean III de Werchin et Cysoing, died at the Battle of Agincourt *

John of Luxembourg, Lord of Beauvoir John of Luxembourg (''Jean de Luxembourg'') ( – bef. 2 July 1397, ItalyDouglas Richardson. ''Royal Ancestry, Vol. V''. p. 422.), was Lord of Beauvoir (or Beaurevoir) and Richebourg, and also (as ''John II'') Count of Brienne and Conversano (). ...

(1370–1397), married

Margaret, Countess of Brienne Marguerite d'Enghien (born 1365 - d. ''after'' 1394), was the ruling suo jure Countess of Brienne and of Conversano, ''suo jure'' Lady of Enghien, and Lady of Beauvois from 1394 until an unknown date. Life Marguerite was born in 1365, the eldest ...

. He started a cadet branch of the House of Saint-Pol and was the father of

Peter of Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol Peter of Luxembourg (1390 – 31 August 1433) was a son of John of Luxembourg, Lord of Beauvoir, and his wife Marguerite of Enghien. His inheritance included the counties of Brienne, Conversano and Saint-Pol. Family Peter had succeeded his fat ...

and

John II of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny John II of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny (1392 – 5 January 1441) was a French nobleman and soldier, a younger son of John of Luxembourg, Lord of Beauvoir, and Marguerite of Enghien. His older brother Peter received his mother's fiefs, includ ...

. * André (died 1396),

Bishop of Cambrai The Archdiocese of Cambrai ( la, Archdiocesis Cameracensis; French: ''Archidiocèse de Cambrai'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France, comprising the arrondissements of Avesnes-sur-Help ...

* Marie, married Jean de Condé (died 1391), and Simon, count of Salm (died 1397) *

Joan, Countess of Ligny Joan, Countess of Saint-Pol and Ligny (died 18 September 1430, Avignon), called the Demoiselle de Luxembourg, was the ruling Count of Saint Pol and Count of Ligny in 1430. She was the daughter of Guy of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny and Mahaut of Ch ...

(died 1430)

Ancestors

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Guy 01 of Luxembourg-Ligny French people of Luxembourgian descent Counts of Ligny Counts of Saint-Pol 1340 births 1371 deaths