Guy I, Count of Ligny

Guy I of Luxembourg-Ligny
Spouse(s)	Mahaut of Châtillon
Noble family	House of Luxembourg
Father	John I of Luxembourg, Lord of Ligny
Mother	Alix of Dampierre
Born	1340
Died	23 August 1371 Baesweiler

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 and lost in the 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 chronicler 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

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

• Waléran III (1356-1415), Count of Ligny and of Saint-Pol, died at the Battle of Azincourt.
• Pierre (1369-1387), bishop of Metz and cardinal, beatified in 1527.
• Margaret, married in 1377 Peter of Enghien, died in 1384, and in 1396 with Jean III de Werchin et Cysoing, died at the Battle of Azincourt.
• John of Luxembourg, Lord of Beauvoir (1370-1397), married Margaret, Countess of Brienne. He started a cadet branch of the House of Saint-Pol and was the father of Peter of Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol and John II of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny.
• André (died 1396), Bishop of Cambrai
• Marie, married Jean de Condé (died 1391), and Simon, count of Salm (died 1397)
• Joan, Countess of Ligny (died 1430).

Ancestors

Ancestors of Guy I, Count of Ligny

16. Henry V, Count of Luxembourg               8. Waleran I of Luxembourg, Lord of Ligny                       17. Margaret of Bar               4. Waleran II of Luxembourg, Lord of Ligny                             18. Mathieu II de Beauvoir               9. Joanna of Beauvoir                       19. Matilda               2. John I of Luxembourg, Lord of Ligny                                   20. John III of Lille               10. John IV of Lille                       21. Mathilde of Tournai               5. Guyotte of Lille                             22. Simon II of Clermont               11. Béatrix of Clemnont                       23. Adele of Montfort               1. Guy of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny                                         24. Guy, Count of Flanders               12. William IV of Dendermonde                       25. Matilda of Béthune               6. Guy V of Richebourg                             26. Raoul of Clermont               13. Alix of Clermont                       27. Alice of Dreux               3. Alix of Dampierre                                   28. Nicholas II of Putten               14. Nicholas III of Putten                       29. Beatrix               7. Beatrix of Putten                             30. William III of Strijen               15. Aleida of Strijen                       31. Oda of Borsele