Waleran III, Count of Ligny

Walram III. of Luxembourg ( Valeran de Luxembourg; * around 1357 in Saint- Pol-sur -Ternoise, † April 12, 1415 in Château d' Ivoy in Carignan ) was Count of Saint-Pol and Ligny, lord of Roussy and Beauvoir 1371-1415. He was the son of Guy of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny and Mahaut de Châtillon, Countess of Saint- Pol.

He entered the service of the French king Charles V, but fell into British captivity, during which he married Maud Holland († 1392 ), daughter of Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent and Joan of Kent, the mother of King Richard II, widow of Hugh of Courtenay. Her daughter was Joan of Luxembourg († 1407), the future wife of Anthony of Burgundy ( 1384-1415 ), Duke of Brabant and Limburg.

After the death of his wife in 1393 he married Bona of Bar († 1400), daughter of Robert I, Duke of Bar and Marie de France. This marriage remained childless.

King Charles VI. commissioned him with the negotiations on the Treaty of London ( 1396 ) and made him a year later governor of Genoa.

During the illness of the king made ​​him John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, whose loyal follower he was, in 1402 the Grand Maître des eaux et Forestry, in 1410 he made ​​him the military governor ( Captain ) of Paris, in the same year Bouteillier de France ( royal cupbearer ), and on March 5, 1412 to the Constable of France. Walram established in Paris, the militia of the Écorcheurs, fought several times against the Armagnacs in Normandy. 1413 had to leave Bourguignons and thus Walram Paris. He died a short time later. His successor was the younger son of his daughter, Philip of Saint- Pol.