Robert III, Count of Dreux

Robert III, Count of Dreux
Robert III of Dreux
Spouse(s)	Alianor de St. Valéry
Noble family	House of Dreux
Father	Robert II of Dreux
Mother	Yolanda de Coucy
Born	1185
Died	1234

Robert III of Dreux (1185–1234), Count of Dreux and Braine, was the son of Robert II, Count of Dreux, and Yolanda de Coucy.^[1] He was given the byname Gasteblé (lit. wheat-spoiler) when he destroyed a field of wheat while hunting in his youth.

Along with his brother Peter, Duke of Brittany he fought with future Louis VIII of France in 1212 at Nantes and was captured there during a sortie.^[2] Exchanged after the Battle of Bouvines for William Longsword, Earl of Salisbury, he fought in the Albigensian Crusade, besieging Avignon in 1226. He was a supporter of Blanche of Castile during her regency after the death of Louis VIII in 1226.

In 1210 he married Alianor de St. Valéry (1192–15 Nov 1250) and they had several children:

• Yolande of Dreux (1212–1248), who married Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy^[3]
• John I (1215–1249), later Count of Dreux.^[3]
• Robert (1217–1264), Viscount of Châteaudun.
• Peter (1220–1250), a cleric.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Robert III, Count of Dreux

16. Philip I of France               8. Louis VI of France                       17. Bertha of Holland               4. Robert I of Dreux                             18. Humbert II, Count of Savoy               9. Adelaide of Maurienne                       19. Gisela of Burgundy               2. Robert II of Dreux                                   20. Andre de Baudément               10. Guy de Baudement                       21. Agnes               5. Agnes de Baudemont, Countess of Braine                             11. Alix, Dame de Braine                       1. Robert III, Count of Dreux                                         24. Thomas de Coucy, Count of Amiens               12. Enguerrand II, Lord of Coucy                       25. Mélisende de Crècy               6. Ralph I, Lord of Coucy                             26. Raoul I, Seigneur de Baugency               13. Agnes de Baugency                       27. Matilda of Vermandois               3. Yolanda de Coucy                                   28. Baldwin III, Count of Hainaut               14. Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut                       29. Yolande de Wassenberg               7. Agnes of Hainaut                             30. Godfrey I, Margrave of Namur               15. Alice of Namur                       31. Ermesinda of Luxembourg

Notes

1. Theodore Evergates, The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), 229.
2. Sidney Painter, William Marshal, Knight-Errant, Baron, and Regent of England, (University of Toronto Press, 1982), 254.
3. Michelle Bubenicek, Quand les femmes gouvernent: droit et politique au XIVe siècle:Yolande de Flandre, Droit et politique au XIV siecle, (Ecole des Chartes, 2002), 54-55.

References

• Bubenicek, Michelle, Quand les femmes gouvernent: droit et politique au XIVe siècle:Yolande de Flandre, Droit et politique au XIV siecle, Ecole des Chartes, 2002
• Evergates, Theodore, The aristocracy in the county of Champagne, 1100-1300, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
• Painter, Sidney, William Marshal, Knight-Errant, Baron, and Regent of England, University of Toronto Press, 1982.