Robert, Count of Clermont
Robert of Clermont (* 1256, † February 7, 1317 ), also known as Robert de France, was a royal French prince. He was the youngest son of King Louis IX. of the Holy († 1270) and his wife Margaret of Provence († 1295) and established by marriage the royal French house of Bourbon.
Life
Like all his older brothers was Robert in 1269 with the county Clermont -en- Beauvaisis and the landlords Creil -sur -Oise and Sacy -le- Grand a relatively small appanage, quite unlike his uncles, who were equipped with a more significant territories in France. Robert was a French chamberlain and marked by the footsteps of his famous father and the Knights ideals of his time, but did not participate in the fateful seventh crusade against Tunis. The news of the death of his father brought Robert the later biographer Jean de Joinville. 1272 Robert took in the wake of his brother King Philip III. the campaign against the Count Roger Bernard III. part of Foix. He received in May 1279 in a tournament in Paris, which was held in honor of Prince Charles of Salerno, a serious head wound, which led to an ongoing mental confusion in consequence he could not take any more important political role in the royal court.
Robert of Clermont is buried in Saint -Jacques in Paris.
Robert was in 1270 with the Viscountess of Limoges, Mary, betrothed. However, the marriage did not materialize. Finally, in 1276 he married Beatrix, a granddaughter of the Duke Hugo IV of Burgundy. From her father John of Burgundy inherited Beatrix in 1276, the county Charolais, by her mother Agnes de Dampierre 1287/88 the Seigneurie Bourbon.
Progenitor of the Bourbons
By under Robert's son, Louis the lame of King Charles IV in 1327 made appreciation of the Bourbon reign to a Duchy of the Roberts family took its name. All Bourbons living after him are descended from him. When the Dukes of Bourbon, Count of La Marche and Earls and Dukes of Vendôme, they were represented as a French feudal lords in the late Middle Ages. In 1525, the dynasty moved to the first place of the princes of royal blood and with Henry IV finally took over in 1589 the French throne, she stopped intermittently until 1848. Furthermore, the Bourbons took over the further course of history the Spanish throne, and the Italian duchy of Parma. Currently reigning leaders of the House of Bourbon is King Juan Carlos of Spain and Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg.
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Progeny
The children of Robert and Beatrice of Burgundy were:
- Louis the Lame (Louis I. le Boiteux ) (* 1279, † 1342 ), Count of Clermont -en- Beauvaisis, from 1327 Duke of Bourbon and Count of La Marche
- Blanche (* 1281, † 1304) ∞ married 1303 Robert VII († 1325 ), Count of Auvergne and Boulogne ( house Auvergne )
- ∞ married in 1308 with John I, Marquis of Namur (* 1267, † 1330)