John of Artois, Count of Eu

John of Artois
John of Artois with his wife Isabelle de Melun
Spouse(s)	Isabeau of Melun
Noble family	House of Artois
Father	Robert III of Artois
Mother	Jeanne of Valois
Born	29 August 1321
Died	1387

John of Artois (29 August 1321 – 1387), called "sans Terre" (Lackland), was the son of Robert III of Artois and Joan of Valois.^[1] The confiscation of his father's goods for attempted fraud in 1331 had left him without an inheritance.^[2]

In 1352, he was created Count of Eu, a title earlier forfeited at the execution of the previous holder, Raoul II of Brienne. He was badly wounded at the Battle of Poitiers on 19 September 1356, and was captured there by the English.^[3] Enormously rich his ransom was sold to the Black Prince by his captor Élie de Pommiers for 30,000 old écus.

He married Isabeau of Melun (1328–1389),^[4] daughter of John I of Melun, Count of Tancarville, on 11 July 1352 and had the following issue:

• Joan (1353–1420), married at the Château d'Eu on 12 July 1365 Simon de Thouars (d. 1365), Count of Dreux
• John of Artois (1355–1363), Lord of Peronne
• Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (1356–1387)
• Philip of Artois, Count of Eu (1357–1397)
• Charles (1359 – 15 April 1368)
• Isabeau (1361 – 26 June 1379)

Genealogy

Ancestors of John of Artois, Count of Eu

16. Robert I, Count of Artois               8. Robert II, Count of Artois                       17. Matilda of Brabant               4. Philip of Artois                             18. Pierre de Courtenay               9. Amicie de Courtenay                       19. Peronelle de Joigny               2. Robert III of Artois                                   20. John I, Duke of Brittany               10. John II, Duke of Brittany                       21. Blanche of Navarre               5. Blanche of Brittany                             22. Henry III of England               11. Beatrice of England                       23. Eleanor of Provence               1. John of Artois, Count of Eu                                         24. Louis IX of France               12. Philip III of France                       25. Margaret of Provence               6. Charles, Count of Valois                             26. James I of Aragon               13. Isabella of Aragon                       27. Violant of Hungary               3. Joan of Valois, Countess of Beaumont                                   28. Baldwin II of Constantinople               14. Philip of Courtenay                       29. Marie of Brienne               7. Catherine of Courtenay                             30. Charles I of Naples               15. Beatrice of Sicily                       31. Beatrice of Provence

Notes

1. Froland, Louis, Memoires concernans le comté-pairi d'Eu, et ses usages pretendus locaux, (1722), 13.
2. Anquetil, Louis-Pierre and Gallais (Jean-Pierre, M.), Vincent Marie Viénot, Histoire de France depuis les Gaulois jusqu'à la mort de Louis XVI, (Rue Neuves Des Petit Champs, 1819), 184-185.
3. Sumption, Jonathon, The Hundred Years War: Trial by Fire, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), 147.
4. Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert, North-eastern France, (Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., 1890), 58.

References

• Anquetil, Louis-Pierre and Gallais (Jean-Pierre, M.), Vincent Marie Viénot, Histoire de France depuis les Gaulois jusqu'à la mort de Louis XVI, Rue Neuves Des Petit Champs, 1819.
• Froland, Louis, Memoires concernans le comté-pairi d'Eu, et ses usages pretendus locaux, 1722.
• Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert, North-eastern France, Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., 1890.
• Sumption, Jonathon, The Hundred Years War: Trial by Fire, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.