Philip I, Duke of Brabant

Philip I, Duke of Brabant
Philip I, Duke of Brabant
Count of Ligny and Saint-Pol
Reign	25 October 1415 - 4 August 1430
Predecessor	Waleran III
Successor	Joan
Duke of Brabant, Lothier and Limburg
Reign	1427 - 4 August 1430
Predecessor	John IV
Successor	Philip II
Born	25 July 1404
Died	4 August 1430 (aged 26) Leuven
Spouse	Yolande of Anjou
House	House of Valois-Burgundy
House	House of Valois-Burgundy
Father	Antoine, Duke of Brabant
Mother	Jeanne of Saint-Pol

Philip I, Duke of Brabant, also known as Philip of Saint Pol (25 July 1404 – Leuven, 4 August 1430), younger son of Antoine, Duke of Brabant and Jeanne of Saint-Pol, succeeded his brother John as Duke of Brabant in 1427.^[1] He had already been given Saint-Pol and Ligny as an appanage on the death of his grandfather Waleran III in 1415 at the Battle of Agincourt.

He commanded the Burgundian forces occupying Paris in 1419, but he returned to Brabant in 1420, where the populace complained of his brother's misadministration. He was declared ruwaard (regent) of Brabant. In 1421, he was reconciled with his brother, and resigned the regency. The citizens were pacified by John's "Nieuw Regiment" in 1422.

During his own reign, Philip was forced to grant concessions to the nobility in 1428. Wary of the rise of his cousin and heir Philip the Good in the Hook and Cod wars, he sought a marital alliance with Louis II of Anjou against Burgundy, marrying his daughter Yolande.
Because this marriage produced no children, his death in 1430 placed Brabant in the hands of his cousin Philip the Good, the next heir, whilst Saint-Pol and Ligny went to his great-aunt Joan, by proximity of blood.^[2] His wife was placed in the guardianship of Philip the Good, until she remarried in 1431 with Francis I, Duke of Brittany.

References

1. Willem Pieter Blockmans and Walter Prevenier, The Promised Lands: The Low Countries Under Burgundian Rule, 1369-1530, Transl. Elizabeth Fackelman, Ed. Edward Peters, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), 91.
2. Willem Pieter Blockmans and Walter Prevenier, The Promised Lands: The Low Countries Under Burgundian Rule, 1369-1530, 91.

Ancestors

Ancestors of Philip I, Duke of Brabant

16. Philip VI of France               8. John II of France                       17. Joan the Lame               4. Philip the Bold                             18. John I of Bohemia               9. Bonne of Bohemia                       19. Elisabeth of Bohemia               2. Anthony, Duke of Brabant                                   20. Louis I of Flanders               10. Louis II of Flanders                       21. Margaret I, Countess of Burgundy               5. Margaret III, Countess of Flanders                             22. John III, Duke of Brabant               11. Margaret of Brabant                       23. Marie d'Évreux               1. Philip I, Duke of Brabant                                         24. John I of Luxembourg, Lord of Ligny               12. Guy I of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny                       25. Alix of Dampierre               6. Waleran III of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny                             26. Jean de Châtillon-Saint-Pol               13. Mahaut of Châtillon                       27. Jeanne de Fiennes               3. Jeanne of Saint-Pol                                   28. Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Holand               14. Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent                       29. Maud la Zouche               7. Maud Holland                             30. Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent               15. Joan of Kent                       31. Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell