Louis I, Count of Nevers

Louis I, Count of Nevers
Spouse(s)	Joan, Countess of Rethel
Noble family	House of Dampierre
Father	Robert III, Count of Flanders
Mother	Yolande, Countess of Nevers
Born	1272
Died	22 July 1322 Paris

Louis I (1272 – 22 July 1322) was suo jure Count of Nevers and jure uxoris Count of Rethel.

Louis was the son of Robert III, Count of Flanders,^[1] and Yolande, Countess of Nevers.^[2] He succeeded his parents as Count of Nevers. In December 1290, he married Joan, Countess of Rethel, ^[3] and thus became her co-ruler in the County of Rethel. They had two children:

• Joanna of Flanders
• Louis I, Count of Flanders,^[3] Nevers and Rethel

He died in Paris shortly before his father and thus never succeeded his father as Count of Flanders.

Ancestors

Ancestors of Louis I, Count of Nevers

16. Guy II of Dampierre               8. William II of Dampierre                       17. Matilda of Bourbon               4. Guy, Count of Flanders                             18. Baldwin I of Constantinople               9. Margaret II of Flanders                       19. Marie of Champagne               2. Robert III, Count of Flanders                                   20. William II, Lord of Béthune               10. Robert VII, Lord of Béthune                       21. Mathilda of Dendermonde               5. Matilda of Béthune                             22. Arnold of Morialmez               11. Elisabeth of Morialmez                       23. Joan of Belœil               1. Louis I, Count of Nevers                                         24. Odo III, Duke of Burgundy               12. Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy                       25. Theresa of Portugal               6. Odo, Count of Nevers                             26. Robert III of Dreux               13. Yolande of Dreux, Duchess of Burgundy                       27. Alianor de St. Valéry               3. Yolande II, Countess of Nevers                                   28. Archambaud VIII of Bourbon               14. Archambaud IX of Bourbon                       29. Guigone de Forez               7. Matilda II, Countess of Nevers                             30. Guy II, Count of Saint-Pol               15. Yolande de Châtillon                       31. Agnès de Donzy

References

1. William H. TeBrake, A Plague of Insurrection: Popular Politics and Peasant Revolt in Flanders, 1323-1328, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993), 36.
2. The Low Countries and the Disputed Imperial Election of 1314, Henry S. Lucas, Speculum, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Jan., 1946), 80.
3. David M Nicholas, Medieval Flanders, (Taylor & Francis, 1992), 442.