Robert, Duke of Bar
Robert I. (* November 8, 1344, † April 12, 1411 ) was Margrave of Pont-à- Mousson and Count of Bar from 1352 to 1354, then Duke of Bar from 1354 to 1411 He was the younger son of Count Henry. IV and Yolande of Flanders.
Biography
When his father died, he was less than a year old. His older brother, Edward II, Count of Bar under the regency of her mother. Since the brothers of weak constitution were Jolanthe reached with Pope Clement VI. , That they were allowed to eat at fast days meat.
When his brother died, he was seven years old. His mother prepared at this time her marriage to Philip of Navarre, Count of Longueville, in which problems in the regency conjured up, as Philip 's brother Charles of Evil, King of Navarre, was that faced the French King John II hostile. But Joan of Bar (1295-1361), Countess of Warren and daughter of Count Henry III. know the king ordered that it was prepared to take over the regency, the problem was resolved on July 27, 1352. Yolande of Flanders, however, who had previously waived the regency, now troops dug to attack Johanna, so John II intervene now and Jolanthe to surrender ( July 2, 1353 ) had to force.
Another problem was solved in the following year by charging bars to the Duchy. Pont-à- Mousson had become the Margraviate, and Robert is out in the documents of the time as the marquis de Pont -à -Mousson et comte de Bar - a situation that appeared to the nobility of the country illogical, since the county bar significantly greater than the Margraviate was. To remove this anomaly, Emperor Charles IV raised bar on March 13, 1354 to the Duchy.
In the battle of Maupertuis on September 19, 1356 John II was in English captivity, and Joan of Bar looked her patron robbed - Yolanda of Flanders took over as mother again the regency. Robert was beaten in December of the year for the Knights.
On November 8, 1359 Robert was declared of age. On May 19, 1364, he attended the coronation of Charles V in Reims part (whose sister Marie he married on 5 October of the year in Bar- le- Duc), on November 4, 1380 at the Charles VI .. In the reign Charles V, he participated in several campaigns of his brother, with whom the English were to be driven out of Normandy.
In 1401 he gave up his title of duke to his younger son Edward, but retained the usufruct of the duchy. With this decision, he went to his grandson Robert, the son of his deceased eldest son Henry of Oisy who rebelled against it, in 1406 a process if Parlement in Paris struggled, unsuccessfully went to the end of 1409.
In the period of regency for the insane French king Charles VI. Robert stood on the side of the Duke Louis of Orléans, but withdrew after his assassination in 1407 - also by his gout forced - in his duchy back. He was buried in the church of Saint- Maxes in Bar- le- Duc.
Progeny
Robert married in 1364 Maria of France ( 1344-1404 ), daughter of John II and Jutta of Luxembourg. Their children were:
- Jolanda (* 1365, † 1431), ∞ 1384 John I. king of Aragon (* 1350, † 1395 )
- Heinrich ( * 1362, † 1397 ), Lord of Marle and Oisy
- Philip (* 1372, † after 1404 in Turkish captivity after the battle of Nicopolis in 1396 )
- Karl ( * 1373, † 1392 ), Lord of Nogent -le- Rotrou
- Maria ( * 1374 ) ∞ 1384 William II, Margrave of Namur (* 1355, † 1418 )
- Edward III. (X in 1415 at the Battle of Agincourt ), Duke of Bar
- Ludwig ( † 1431), Bishop of Poitiers, Bishop of Langres, Bishop of Porto- Santa Rufina, Bishop of Chalons, Administrator of Verdun, Cardinal
- Jolande the Younger ( † 1421 ) ∞ Adolf, Count of Berg, count of Ravens Berg, 1423 Duke of Jülich († 1437)
- Johann (* 1380 X 1415 at the Battle of Agincourt ), Lord of Puisaye
- Bona († 1400) ∞ 1393 Walram III. of Luxembourg (* 1357, † 1415), Count of Ligny, Count of Saint-Pol
- Johanna († 1402); ∞ 1393 à Theodore II Palaeologus, Marquis of Montferrat (* 1361 † 1418 )