Peter, Count of Perche and Alençon
Peter of France (Pierre de France ) (* 1251 in Atlit, † April 5, 1284 in Salerno) was a French prince of the dynasty of the Capetians. He was from 1269 to 1284, Count of Alençon and Le Perche 1272-1284 one Count of Blois and Chartres, and M. de Guise ( jure uxoris ).
Biography
Peter was the son of the French king Louis IX. of the sacred and of Margaret of Provence. He was born in the Holy Land at the castle Pelerin, but he was baptized in the Cathedral of Caesarea; his godfather was the Templar Grand Master Renaud de Vichiers. Peter was the second of three children of the King and Queen, which was born during the Sixth Crusade. His father ran after the fighting in Egypt (1249-1250) for four years, the reorganization of the Kingdom of Jerusalem ( 1250-1254 ).
After returning to France, Peter lived in Paris and received in 1269 from his father the counties of Alençon and Le Perche as Paragium. By the will of the father he should join the Order of the Franciscans, which Peter resisted but successful. He accompanied his father to Tunis on the Seventh Crusade ( 1270), which was a catastrophe, since shortly after the landing in North Africa, a dysentery epidemic broke out in the army, who succumbed to both Peter's father and his brother John of Damietta. From his eldest brother and nunmehrigen king, Philip III. the Bold, Peter was appointed regent -designate for the case that the new king should die unexpectedly, but this did not occur.
After his return married Peter in 1272 Joan of Châtillon (* 1258, † 1291 ), which brought the counties of Blois and Chartres, and the rule of Guise in the marriage. Peter belonged in 1281 to the witness of the method of Pope Martin IV, which led to the canonization of his father.
After the Sicilian Vespers in 1282 Peter went to the Kingdom of Naples to assist his uncle Charles of Anjou. He died in 1284 in Salerno, who was later transferred to Paris and was buried there in the Couvent des Cordeliers. After his death without issue Apanage ( Alençon and Le Perche ) fell to the crown back, his wife did not marry again, and sold in 1286 Chartres to King Philip IV the Fair. Blois and inherited Guise relatives from the house Châtillon.
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Progeny
With Joanna of Châtillon (* 1258, † 1291 ), he had two sons, both not long lived and buried in the Abbey of Royaumont and were transferred in 1791 to Saint -Denis:
- Louis ( * 1276, † 1277 )
- Philippe ( * 1278, † 1279 )