Louis, Count of Évreux

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Louis, Count of Évreux

Tomb effigy of Louis d'Evreux
Spouse(s) Margaret of Artois
Noble family House of Capet
Father Philip III the Bold
Mother Maria of Brabant
Born (1276-05-03)3 May 1276
Died 19 May 1319(1319-05-19) (aged 43)
Paris

Louis of Évreux (May 3, 1276 May 19, 1319, Paris) was a prince, the third son of King Philip III of France and his second wife Maria of Brabant,[1] and thus a half-brother of King Philip IV of France.

Louis had a quiet and reflective personality and was politically opposed to the scheming of his half-brother Charles of Valois. He was however close with his nephew Philip V of France.

He married Margaret of Artois, daughter of Philip of Artois and sister of Robert III of Artois, and had five children:

  1. Marie (1303 October 31, 1335), married in 1311 John III, Duke of Brabant
  2. Charles (13051336), Count of Étampes married Maria de la Cerda, Lady of Lunel, daughter of Fernando de la Cerda.
  3. Philip III of Navarre (13061343), married Joan II of Navarre.[2]
  4. Margaret (13071350), married in 1325 William XII of Auvergne
  5. Joan (13101370), married Charles IV of France[3]

Ancestry

References

  1. Taylor, William Cooke, History of France and Normandy: from the earliest times to the year 1860, (J.B.Lippincott & Co., 1860), 501.
  2. Evreux, John Bell Henneman Jr., Medieval France:An Encyclopedia, Ed. William F. Kibler, (Routledge, 1995), 328.
  3. Evreux, John Bell Henneman Jr., 328.
Louis, Count of Évreux
Born: 3 May 1276 Died: 19 May 1319
Preceded by
Count of Évreux
bef. 13031319
Succeeded by
Philip
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