Waleran III, Count Of Ligny
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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 (; ; ) 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 ...
. Waleran succeeded his father in 1371, after his death at the Battle of Baesweiler. Waleran was captured at the same battle, but released through the intercession of
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV (; ; ; 14 May 1316 – 29 November 1378''Karl IV''. In: (1960): ''Geschichte in Gestalten'' (''History in figures''), vol. 2: ''F–K''. 38, Frankfurt 1963, p. 294), also known as Charles of Luxembourg, born Wenceslaus (, ), was H ...
. In 1374, he was captured by the English before Ardres and sent to Windsor as a prisoner. The English attempted to exchange him for Jean III de Grailly, captal de Buch, but without success. In 1380, while a captive, Waleran 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, Order of the Garter, KG (26 December 1360) was an Kingdom of England, English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War. By the time of the Crécy campai ...
and
Joan of Kent Joan, Countess of Kent suo jure ( – August 1385),Barber, R.  (2004, 23 September). Joan, suo jure countess of Kent, and princess of Wales and of Aquitaine alled the Fair Maid of Kent(c. 1328–1385). ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biog ...
and Richard II's half-sister. He did homage, to
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, for his French domains, which allowed him to negotiate down his ransom, and he was released soon afterwards. After Maud's death, Waleran married Bona of Bar (d. 1400), daughter of Duke Robert of Bar and Marie of Valois (daughter of
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), but they had no children. He was one of the peace commissioners sent to London in 1396. On 30 December 1396, Waleran was made governor of Genoa. Waleran wrote
Henry IV of England Henry IV ( – 20 March 1413), also known as Henry Bolingbroke, was King of England from 1399 to 1413. Henry was the son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (a son of King Edward III), and Blanche of Lancaster. Henry was involved in the 1388 ...
a letter on 9 November 1403, stating his intentions to attack England. He declared a personal grudge against the man who had killed and replaced, his relative, Richard II. He blockaded Calais in 1403, stopping all overland commerce into the town ordering the arrest of any English merchants. Later in 1405, he made a futile attack on the English at Mercq near
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. Waleran was of the party of Philip II, Duke of Burgundy, marrying his daughter to Philip's son Antoine. Under the Burgundians he obtained preferment, becoming Grand Maître des Eaux et Forêts, the governor of
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in 1410, and
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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 in 1401. By his mistress, Agnes de Brie, Waleran had: * John, bastard of St. Pol, called Hennequin, lord of Hautbordin.(d.1466)


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