Guy I of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny

Guy I of Luxembourg-Ligny (1340 – August 23, 1371) was Count of Saint-Pol (1360-1371) and Count of Ligny, Lord of Roussy and Beauvoir (1364-1371).

He was the son of John I and Alix of Dampierre, dame de Richebourg.

Guy participated in the lost Battle of Baesweiler (present-day Germany), a conflict between his relative Wenceslaus I of Luxembourg, husband of the Duchess of Brabant on the one side, and William II, Duke of Jülich and Edward, Duke of Guelders on the other side.
The chroniqueur Jan van Boendale writes in his Brabantsche Yeesten that Guy lay wounded and abandoned on the battlefield, until he was discovered by a scavenger the next day, who killed and robbed him. When this plunderer tried later to sell his booty, he was hanged.

Marriage and children

He married in 1354 with Mahaut of Châtillon (1335-1378), Countess of Saint-Pol, daughter of Jean de Châtillon-Saint-Pol and Jeanne de Fiennes, and had:

Preceded by
Guy V
Count of Saint-Pol
1360–1371
Succeeded by
Waleran III
Preceded by
John I
Count of Ligny
1364–1371