Guy I of Luxembourg-Ligny (1340 – 23 August 1371) was
Count of Saint-Pol (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 Luxembur ...
, 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 John I may refer to:
People
* John I (bishop of Jerusalem)
* John Chrysostom (349 – c. 407), Patriarch of Constantinople
* John of Antioch (died 441)
* Pope John I, Pope from 523 to 526
* John I (exarch) (died 615), Exarch of Ravenna
* John I ...
and Alix of Dampierre, dame de Richebourg.
Guy participated in the
Battle of Baesweiler
Baesweiler () is a municipality in the district of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Geography
Baesweiler is located approximately 20 km north-east of Aachen.
Neighbouring municipalities
* Geilenkirchen
* Linnich
* Aldenhoven
* ...
(present-day Germany), a conflict between his relative
Wenceslaus I of Luxembourg, husband of the
Duchess of Brabant on the one side, and
William II, Duke of Jülich 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. He started a cadet branch of the House of Saint-Pol and was the father of
Peter of Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol 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 (died 1430)
Ancestors
References
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French people of Luxembourgian descent
Counts of Ligny
Counts of Saint-Pol
1340 births
1371 deaths