Waleran III, Count of Ligny

Waleran III of Luxembourg

Count of Ligny and Saint-Pol
Reign	1371 - 1415
Predecessor	Guy I
Successor	Philip
Born	1355
Died	12 April 1415(1415-04-12)
Spouse	Maud Holland (c.1374 - 1392) Bona of Bar (c.1392 - 1400)
Issue	Jeanne of Luxembourg
House	House of Luxemburg
Father	Guy of Luxembourg
Mother	Mahaut of Châtillon

Waleran III of Luxembourg (1355 – 12 April 1415) Count of Ligny and Saint Pol, was a French nobleman and soldier.

Life

He was the son of Guy of Luxembourg and Mahaut of Châtillon.^[1] He succeeded his father in 1371, after his death at the Battle of Baesweiler. Waleran was captured at the same battle, but released through the intercession of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor. In 1374, he was captured by the English before Ardres and sent to Windsor as a prisoner. The English attempted to exchange him for Jean III de Grailly, captal de Buch, but without success. In 1380, while a captive, he married Maud Holland (d. 1392), daughter of Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent and Joan of Kent and stepdaughter of Edward, the Black Prince.^[2] This allowed him to negotiate down his ransom, and he was released soon afterwards. Maud bore him a daughter, Jeanne (d. 1407), who married Antoine, Duke of Brabant in 1401.^[3]

After Maud's death, he married Bona of Bar (d. 1400), daughter of Duke Robert of Bar and Marie of Valois (daughter of John II of France), but had no issue by her. He was one of the peace commissioners sent to London in 1396, and made a futile attack on the English at Mercq near Calais in 1405.^[4] He was of the party of Philip II, Duke of Burgundy, marrying his daughter to Philip's son Antoine. Under the Burgundians he obtained preferment, becoming Grand Maitre de Eaux et Forests, the governor of Paris in 1410, and Constable of France in 1411. However, he lost the Constableship and was driven from Paris with the rest of the Burgundians in 1413. He died in 1415 and was succeeded by his grandson Philip of Saint-Pol.

Ancestors

Ancestors of Waleran III, Count of Ligny

16. Waleran I of Luxembourg, Lord of Ligny

8. Waleran II of Luxembourg, Lord of Ligny

17. Joanna of Beauvoir

4. John I of Luxembourg

18. John IV of Lille

9. Guyotte of Lille

19. Béatrix of Clemnont

2. Guy of Luxembourg

20. William IV of Dendermonde

10. Guy V of Richebourg

21. Alix of Beaumont

5. Alix of Dampierre

22. Nicholas III of Putten

11. Beatrix of Putten

23. Aleida of Strijen

1. Waleran III of Luxembourg

24. Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol

12. Guy III of Chatillon

25. Matilda of Brabant

6. John of Châtillon, Count of Saint-Pol

26. John II, Duke of Brittany

13. Marie of Brittany, Countess of Saint-Pol

27. Beatrice of England

3. Mahaut of Châtillon

28. William II of Fiennes

14. John of Fiennes, Lord of Tingry

29. Blanche of Brienne

7. Joanna of Fiennes

30. Guy, Count of Flanders

15. Isabella of Dampierre

31. Isabelle of Luxembourg

References

↑ (FR)Michelle Bubenicek, Quand les femmes gouvernent: droit et politique au XIVe siècle, (Ecole de Chartes, 2002), 262.
↑ "The Quarrel of Old Women": Henry IV, Louis of Orleans, and Anglo-French Chivalric Challenges in the Early Fifteenth Century, Chris Given-Wilson, The Reign of Henry IV: Rebellion and Survival, 1403-1413, ed. Gwilym Dodd and Douglas Biggs, (York Medieval Press, 2008), 36.
↑ Richard Vaughan, Philip the Bold, (The Boydell Press, 2009), 90.
↑ "The Quarrel of Old Women": Henry IV, Louis of Orleans, and Anglo-French Chivalric Challenges in the Early Fifteenth Century, Chris Given-Wilson, 37.

French nobility
Waleran III, Count of Ligny House of Luxemburg Born: 1355 Died: 25 October 1415
Preceded by Guy of Luxembourg	Count of Ligny 1371 – 1415	Succeeded by Philip of Saint-Pol
Preceded by Mahaut of Châtillon	Count of Saint Pol 1378 – 1415	Succeeded by Philip of Saint-Pol
Political offices
Preceded by Charles I of Albret	*Constable of France (Burgundian)* 1411 – 1413 Disputed by Charles I of Albret	Succeeded by Charles I of Albret

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