Robert III, Count of Dreux

Robert III, Count of Dreux
Robert III of Dreux
Born	1185
Died	1234 (aged 48–49)
Noble family	Dreux
Spouse(s)	Alianor de St. Valéry
Issue Yolande of Dreux John I
Father	Robert II of Dreux
Mother	Yolanda de Coucy

Robert III of Dreux (1185–1234), Count of Dreux and Braine, was the son of Robert II, Count of Dreux, and Yolanda de Coucy.^[1] He was given the byname Gasteblé (lit. wheat-spoiler) when he destroyed a field of wheat while hunting in his youth.

Along with his brother Peter, Duke of Brittany he fought with future Louis VIII of France in 1212 at Nantes and was captured there during a sortie.^[2] Exchanged after the Battle of Bouvines for William Longsword, Earl of Salisbury, he fought in the Albigensian Crusade, besieging Avignon in 1226. He was a supporter of Blanche of Castile during her regency after the death of Louis VIII in 1226.

In 1210 he married Alianor de St. Valéry (1192–15 Nov 1250) and they had several children:

Yolande of Dreux (1212–1248), who married Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy^[3]
John I (1215–1249), later Count of Dreux.^[3]
Robert (1217–1264), Viscount of Châteaudun.
Peter (1220–1250), a cleric.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Robert III, Count of Dreux

16. Philip I of France

8. Louis VI of France

17. Bertha of Holland

4. Robert I of Dreux

18. Humbert II, Count of Savoy

9. Adelaide of Maurienne

19. Gisela of Burgundy

2. Robert II of Dreux

20. Andre de Baudément

10. Guy de Baudement

21. Agnes

5. Agnes de Baudemont, Countess of Braine

11. Alix, Dame de Braine

1. Robert III, Count of Dreux

24. Thomas de Coucy, Count of Amiens

12. Enguerrand II, Lord of Coucy

25. Mélisende de Crècy

6. Ralph I, Lord of Coucy

26. Raoul I, Seigneur de Baugency

13. Agnes de Baugency

27. Matilda of Vermandois

3. Yolanda de Coucy

28. Baldwin III, Count of Hainaut

14. Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut

29. Yolande de Wassenberg

7. Agnes of Hainaut

30. Godfrey I, Margrave of Namur

15. Alice of Namur

31. Ermesinda of Luxembourg

Notes

↑ Theodore Evergates, The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), 229.
↑ Sidney Painter, William Marshal, Knight-Errant, Baron, and Regent of England, (University of Toronto Press, 1982), 254.
1 2 Michelle Bubenicek, Quand les femmes gouvernent: droit et politique au XIVe siècle:Yolande de Flandre, Droit et politique au XIV siecle, (Ecole des Chartes, 2002), 54-55.

References

Bubenicek, Michelle, Quand les femmes gouvernent: droit et politique au XIVe siècle:Yolande de Flandre, Droit et politique au XIV siecle, Ecole des Chartes, 2002
Evergates, Theodore, The aristocracy in the county of Champagne, 1100-1300, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
Painter, Sidney, William Marshal, Knight-Errant, Baron, and Regent of England, University of Toronto Press, 1982.

Robert III, Count of Dreux House of Dreux Born: 1185 Died: 1234
Preceded by Robert II	Count of Dreux 1218–1234	Succeeded by John I

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