Louis I, Count of Blois

Ludwig ( * 1171/1172, † April 14, 1205 in Adrian Opel ) was Count of Blois, Chartres and Châteaudun, from 1191 to 1205 and from Clermont -en- Beauvaisis from the right of his wife. He was the son of Count Theobald V and Alix of France. Maternal His grandparents were King Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine.

He married in 1184 Catherine de Clermont, daughter of Raoul I, Count of Clermont -en- Beauvaisis. After the death of his father Louis succeeded him as Count of Clermont from the right of his wife.

1196 Ludwig managed serfdom in his lands from. At the tournament of Écry -sur -Aisne on November 28, 1199 he and his cousin Theobald III. the first to the call of Pope Innocent III. followed by the Fourth Crusade and committed to participate. He left France in 1202, missed the conquest of Constantinople Opel 1204 because he was sick for months. Also in the following raids his people in Asia Minor, where he was to be appointed to the Duke of Nicaea, he could not participate.

He had just recovered health when he fell at the Battle of Adrian Opel against the Bulgarians Army Kaloyan: He chased too long behind the fleeing enemy forth until he fell into an ambush. Emperor Baldwin I was captured, Ludwig was killed.

With Catherine he had three children:

  • Rudolf ( Raoul, * before 1201, † young);
  • Johanna ( Jeanne, * after May 1202; † young);
  • Theobald VI. ( Thibaud, † 1218 ), Count of Blois, Chartres, Châteaudun and Clermont.
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