Robert of Namur (1323–91)

Robert de Namur KG (* 1323, † April 1391 ) was a Dutch nobleman and knight in the 14th century out of the house Dampierre. He was a younger son of the Margrave John I of Namur and his second wife Marie d' Artois. From the legacy of his late father in 1330 he received the castles of Beaufort -sur -Meuse, Ronse, Ballâtre and Chievre.

The fashion of his time undertook according to Robert Prussia a journey to earn his knights spores. Under the influence of his uncle Robert of Artois, he decisive to the outbreak of the Hundred Years' War for the England side, while his older brother, Margrave William I, remained on the side of France. During the siege of Calais ( 1346 ), Robert joined the entourage of King Edward III. of England and paid homage to this. On February 2, 1350 he married Isabella de Hainault, sister of Queen Philippa, which he also was combined kinship with the English thing. In the victorious for the English Battle of Winchelsea (Battle of Les Espagnols sur Mer ) against a Castilian fleet on August 3, 1350 Robert commanded the flagship La Salle du Roi and boarded at the side of Edward III. an enemy ship. For his royal brother Robert in 1363 conquered the Flemish castle Escanaffles (now Celles ) and defended in 1369 the English camp in Tournehem -sur- la-Hem against a French attack.

After Queen Philippa had died in 1369, Robert took the historian Jean Froissart on in his personal entourage and became its new patrons. Through him came Froissart in the same year he began at the English court in London and on behalf Roberts out shortly after the drafting of the first book of his Chroniques de France, d' Angleterre, d' Ecosse, de Bretagne, de Gascogne, de Flandre et lieux circonvoisins. Robert himself was recorded in 1369 in the Order of the Garter, where he replaced the recently deceased Robert de Uffort, 1st Earl of Suffolk. For the Duke Wenceslas of Brabant Robert fought on August 20, 1371 at the Battle of Baesweiler in which, however, he fell into captivity from which he had to be ransomed. 1373 Froissart finished his work on the first book of his chronicle and dedicated it to Robert. During the funeral of Franco -minded Count Louis II of Flanders, in 1384, in the monastery Loos, near Lille Robert was fully equipped and ready for battle present.

Robert died in April 1391st In his first marriage he was married since 1350 to Isabella de Hainault († 1361 ), daughter of Count William III. Holland- Hainaut. His second wife was Isabella de Melun since 1380 († 1409 ), who was a daughter of Hugues de Melun, Seigneur d' Antoing et Épinoy, out of the house Melun. From two marriages he had no legitimate offspring, but he had several illegitimate children.

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