Waleran III of Luxembourg (1355 – 12 April 1415)
Count of Ligny and
Saint Pol, was a French nobleman and soldier.
Life
Waleran was the son of
Guy of Luxembourg and Mahaut of
Châtillon. His name originates from the fact that he was a 5th generation descendant of
Henry V, Count of Luxembourg, and thus belonged to the french 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 kin ...
.
Waleran succeeded his father in 1371, after his death at the
Battle of Baesweiler
The Battle of Baesweiler (22 August 1371) was a conflict between the duke of Luxembourg-Brabant against the Duke of Jülich.
Background
Attacks on Brabant's commercial interests in the territory of the Duke of Jülich had almost caused war in 13 ...
. Waleran was captured at the same battle, but released through the intercession of
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor. In 1374, he was captured by the English before
Ardres
Ardres (; vls, Aarden, lang; pcd, Arde) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.
Geography
Ardres is located 10.1 mi by rail (station is at Pont-d'Ardres, a few km from Ardres) S.S.E. of Calais, with which it is a ...
and sent to
Windsor
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as a prisoner. The English attempted to exchange him for
Jean III de Grailly, captal de Buch
Jean III de Grailly (aka. John De Grailly, died 7 September 1376), Captal de Buch, , was a Gascon nobleman and a military leader in the Hundred Years' War, who was praised by the chronicler Jean Froissart as an ideal of chivalry.
Biography
...
, but without success. In 1380, while a captive, he married
Maud Holland (d. 1392), daughter of
Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent
Thomas Holland, 2nd Baron Holand, and ''jure uxoris'' 1st Earl of Kent, KG (c. 131426 December 1360) was an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War. By the time of the Crécy campaign, he had apparently lost one of ...
and
Joan of Kent
Joan, Countess of Kent (29 September 1326/1327 – 7 August 1385), known as The Fair Maid of Kent, was the mother of King Richard II of England, her son by her third husband, Edward the Black Prince, son and heir apparent of King Edward III. ...
and stepdaughter of
Edward, the Black Prince
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. This allowed him to negotiate down his ransom, and he was released soon afterwards.
After Maud's death, he married Bona of Bar (d. 1400), daughter of Duke
Robert of Bar and
Marie of Valois (daughter of
John II of France
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), but they had no children. He was one of the peace commissioners sent to London in 1396, and made a futile attack on the English at
Mercq near
Calais in 1405.
He was of the party of
Philip II, Duke of Burgundy
Philip II the Bold (; ; 17 January 1342 – 27 April 1404) was Duke of Burgundy and '' jure uxoris'' Count of Flanders, Artois and Burgundy. He was the fourth and youngest son of King John II of France and Bonne of Luxembourg.
Philip II was ...
, marrying his daughter to Philip's son Antoine. Under the Burgundians he obtained preferment, becoming
Grand Maître des Eaux et Forêts, the governor of
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
in 1410, and
Constable of France
The Constable of France (french: Connétable de France, from Latin for 'count of the stables') was lieutenant to the King of France, the first of the original five Great Officers of the Crown (along with seneschal, chamberlain, butler, and ...
in 1411. However, he lost the Constableship and was driven from Paris with the rest of the Burgundians in 1413. He died in 1415 and was succeeded by his grandson
Philip of Saint-Pol.
Marriage and issue
Waleran and Maud had:
*
Jeanne (d. 1407), who married
Antoine, Duke of Brabant
Anthony, Duke of Brabant, also known as Antoine de Brabant, Antoine de Bourgogne and Anthony of Burgundy (August 1384 – 25 October 1415), was Count of Rethel (1402–1406), Duke of Brabant, Lothier and Limburg (1406–1415), and Co- Duke ...
in 1401.
[Richard Vaughan, ''Philip the Bold'', (The Boydell Press, 2009), 90.]
By his mistress, Agnes de Brie, Waleran had:
*John, bastard of St. Pol, called Hennequin, lord of Hautbordin.(d.1466)
Ancestors
References
Sources
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1355 births
1415 deaths
14th-century French people
15th-century French people
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French people of Luxembourgian descent