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(Count of Clermont) Robert CAPET #73166
1256 - 7 FEB 1316/17
AKA: Robert of Clermont
Personal Information
- TITLE: Count of Clermont
- BIRTH: 1256
- DEATH: 7 FEB 1316/17
Notes
Founder of the House of Bourbon.
Robert of Clermont was a French prince du sang who was created Count of Clermont in 1268. He was the sixth and last son of King Louis IX (Saint Louis) and Margaret of Provence.
Although he played a minor role in his lifetime due to a head injury which left him handicapped at a young age, he had an important dynastic position as the founder of the House of Bourbon, to which he passed the rights to the throne of France from his father when all male-line branches descended from his elder brothers died out in 1589, nine generations after him.
Robert of Clermont was a French prince du sang who was created Count of Clermont in 1268. He was the sixth and last son of King Louis IX (Saint Louis) and Margaret of Provence.
Although he played a minor role in his lifetime due to a head injury which left him handicapped at a young age, he had an important dynastic position as the founder of the House of Bourbon, to which he passed the rights to the throne of France from his father when all male-line branches descended from his elder brothers died out in 1589, nine generations after him.
Early life
Robert was born in 1256 as the sixth and youngest son of King Louis IX of France (Saint Louis) and Margaret of Provence. Robert's godfather, chosen by Louis IX, was Humbert of Romans, the Dominican Master of the Order at the time of Robert's birth.Marriage and children
In 1272, Robert married Beatrice of Burgundy, heiress of Bourbon and had the following issue:- Louis I, le Boiteux (1279-1341), first Duke of Bourbon.
- Blanche of Clermont (1281-1304); married in 1303 in Paris Robert VII, Count of Auvergne and Boulogne, grandmother of Joan I, Countess of Auvergne.
- John of Clermont (1283-1316), Baron of Charolais; married c. 1309 Jeanne d'Argues, widow of Hugh, Count of Soissons, and had issue.
- Mary of Clermont (1285-1372, Paris), Prioress of Poissy [fr]
- Peter of Clermont (1287 - aft. 1330), Archdeacon of Paris
- Margaret of Clermont (1289-1309, Paris); married firstly, in 1305, Raymond Berengar of Andria, and secondly, in 1308, John I, Marquis of Namur.
Health problems
During his first joust, in 1279, Robert suffered head injuries which rendered him an invalid for the remainder of his life.Written records
Robert is mentioned in the prologue of the Coutumes de Beauvaisis by Philippe de Beaumanoir.Death
He was buried in the now-demolished church of the Couvent des Jacobins in Paris.Parents
Father: Louis IX CAPET #63593
Mother: Margaret of BARCELONA #63595
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- MARRIAGE: 1303, Paris, Île-de-France, France
Note:
_Philip II CAPET ________+
| (1165 - 1223) m 1180
_Louis VIII CAPET __________|
| (1187 - 1226) |
| |_Isabelle of FLANDERS ___
| (1170 - 1189) m 1180
_Louis IX CAPET ________|
| (1214 - 1270) |
| | _Alfonso VIII IVREA _____+
| | | (1155 - 1214)
| |_Blanche of IVREA __________|
| (1187 - 1252) |
| |_Eleanor of PLANTAGENET _+
| (1161 - 1214)
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|--Robert CAPET
| (1256 - 1316)
| _Alfonso II ARAGON ______+
| | (1180 - 1208)
| _Ramon Berenguer IV ARAGON _|
| | (1198 - 1245) |
| | |_Garsenda of SABRAN _____+
| | (1180 - 1242)
|_Margaret of BARCELONA _|
(1221 - 1295) |
| _________________________
| |
|_Beatrice of SAVOY _________|
(1198 - 1267) |
|_________________________