(Count of Artois) Robert I ARTOIS #49426

25 SEP 1216 - 8 FEB 1249/50
TITLE Count of Artois-
BIRTH 25 SEP 1216
DEATH 8 FEB 1249/50

Historical Notes

Founder of the House of Artois

Robert I, called the Good, was the first Count of Artois. He was the fifth (and second surviving) son of King Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile.

Life

He received Artois as an appanage, in accordance with the will of his father (died 1226) on attaining his majority in 1237 (aged twenty-one). In 1240 Pope Gregory IX, in conflict with Emperor Frederick II, offered to crown Robert as emperor in opposition to Frederick, but the French count refused to pretend to such a title.

Marriage

On 14 June 1237 Robert married Matilda, daughter of Henry II of Brabant and Marie of Hohenstaufen.

Death

While participating in the Seventh Crusade, Robert died while leading a reckless attack on Al Mansurah, without the knowledge of his brother King Louis IX. After fording a river, he and a group of Knights Templars charged a Mamluk outpost, during which the Mamluk commander, Fakhr-ad-Din Yusuf, was killed. Emboldened by his success, Robert, the Templar knights, and a contingent of English troops charged into the town and became trapped in the narrow streets. According to Jean de Joinville, Robert defended himself for some time in a house there, but was at last overpowered and killed.

Parents

Father : Louis VIII CAPET #49428

Mother : Blanche of IVREA #49429

Family 1

Matilda of REGINAR
    MARRIAGE 14 JUN 1237, Compiègne, Oise, Picardie, France

Children

  1. +Robert II of ARTOIS
  2. +Blanche of ARTOIS

Lineage 

                                                 _Louis VII CAPET __________+
                                                | (1120 - 1180)             
                       _Philip II CAPET ________|
                      | (1165 - 1223) m 1180    |
                      |                         |_Adela of BLOIS-CHAMPAGNE _+
                      |                           (1140 - 1206)             
 _Louis VIII CAPET ___|
| (1187 - 1226)       |
|                     |                          _Baldwin V FLANDERS _______+
|                     |                         | (1150 - 1195)             
|                     |_Isabelle of FLANDERS ___|
|                       (1170 - 1189) m 1180    |
|                                               |_Margaret I of METZ _______+
|                                                 (1145 - 1194)             
|
|--Robert I ARTOIS 
|  (1216 - 1249)
|                                                _Sancho III IVREA _________+
|                                               | (1134 - 1158)             
|                      _Alfonso VIII IVREA _____|
|                     | (1155 - 1214)           |
|                     |                         |_Blanche of JIMÉNEZ ______+
|                     |                           (1133 - 1156)             
|_Blanche of IVREA ___|
  (1187 - 1252)       |
                      |                          _Henry II PLANTAGENET _____+
                      |                         | (1132 - 1189) m 1152      
                      |_Eleanor of PLANTAGENET _|
                        (1161 - 1214)           |
                                                |_Eleanor of POITIERS ______+
                                                  (1122 - 1204) m 1152

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