Peter II, Count of Saint-Pol

Peter II of Luxembourg (French: Pierre de Luxembourg, * 1440, † October 25, 1482 in Enghien ) out of the house Luxembourg - Ligny was Count of Saint-Pol, Brienne, Marle and Soissons, lord of Enghien.

Life

To not like his father Ludwig I of Luxembourg, Gf. Saint-Pol, who was executed in 1475 in Paris for treason in the crossfire of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, and King Louis XI. to fall of France, he lived primarily in his possession in Enghien. Only after he, the counties of Marle and Soissons inherited from his brother John, who was childless at the Battle of Murten, 1476, he approached the house Burgundy. In August 1477 he was a member of the farm Duchess Mary of Burgundy, and in 1478 he was inducted into the Order of the Golden Fleece. The intervention Duchess Maria he owed it that he was returned to the dispossessed in the execution of his father counties Saint-Pol and Brienne again.

Family

Peter's parents were Louis I of Luxembourg, Gf. Saint-Pol († 1475 ) and Joan of bar He married Margaret of Savoy (* 1439, † March 9, 1484 ), daughter of Count Louis of Savoy and Anne de Lusignan chypre. From this marriage the following children were born:

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