Robert, Count of Clermont

Robert of Clermont
Count of Clermont
Robert and his wife Beatrice
Born	1256
Died	7 February 1317 (aged 60–61)
Spouse	Beatrice of Burgundy
Issue	Louis I, Duke of Bourbon Blanche, Countess of Auvergne and Boulogne John of Clermont, Baron of Charolais Mary of Clermont, Prioress of Poissy Peter of Clermont, Archdeacon of Paris Margaret, Countess of Andria, Marchioness of Namur
House	Bourbon
Father	Louis IX of France
Mother	Margaret of Provence

Robert of Clermont (1256 – 7 February 1317) was created Count of Clermont in 1268. He was the son of King Louis IX of France and Margaret of Provence.^[1] In 1272, Robert married Beatrice of Burgundy, heiress of Bourbon^[2] and had the following issue:

• Louis I, le Boiteux (1279–1342), first Duke of Bourbon.
• Blanche of Clermont (1281–1304); married in 1303 in Paris Robert VII, Count of Auvergne and Boulogne, grandmother of Joan I, Countess of Auvergne.
• John of Clermont (1283–1316), Baron of Charolais; married c. 1309 Jeanne d'Argies and had issue.
• Mary of Clermont (1285–1372, Paris), Prioress of Poissy
• Peter of Clermont (1287 – aft. 1330), Archdeacon of Paris
• Margaret of Clermont (1289–1309, Paris); married firstly, in 1305, Raymond Berengar of Andria, and secondly, in 1308, John I, Marquis of Namur.

During his first joust, in 1279, Robert suffered head injuries which rendered him an invalid for the remainder of his life.^[3]

Robert is considered the founder of the House of Bourbon, a family which, with the passing of centuries came to govern as Kings of Navarre (1572-1830), Kings of France (1589–1848), Kings of the Two Sicilies (1735–1860), Dukes of Parma (1748–1796 and 1847–1859), grand dukes of Luxembourg (1964–present) and Kings of Spain (1700–present).

Robert is mentioned in the prologue of the Coutumes de Beauvaisis by Philippe de Beaumanoir.^[4]

He was buried in the now-demolished church of the Couvent des Jacobins in Paris.

Robert is a supporting character in Les Rois maudits (The Accursed Kings), a series of French historical novels by Maurice Druon. He was portrayed by Alexandre Rignault in the 1972 French miniseries adaptation of the series, and by Ioan Siminie in the 2005 adaptation.

Ancestry

16. Louis VII of France

8. Philip II of France

17. Adèle of Champagne

4. Louis VIII of France

18. Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut

9. Isabelle of Hainaut

19. Margaret I, Countess of Flanders

2. Louis IX of France

20. Sancho III of Castile

10. Alfonso VIII of Castile

21. Blanca Garcés of Navarre

5. Blanche of Castile

22. Henry II of England

11. Leonora of England

23. Eleanor of Aquitaine

1. Robert, Count of Clermont

24. Alfonso II of Aragon

12. Alfonso II, Count of Provence

25. Sancha of Castile

6. Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence

26. Renier de Sabran

13. Garsenda of Forcalquier

27. Garsenda of Forcalquier

3. Marguerite of Provence

28. Humbert III, Count of Savoy

14. Thomas I, Count of Savoy

29. Beatrice of Viennois

7. Beatrice of Savoy

30. William I of Geneva

15. Marguerite of Geneva

31. Beatrix of Faucigny

See also

• Bourbon family tree
• French monarchs family tree

References

1. Bourbon, John Bell Henneman Jr., Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, Ed. William W. Kibler, (Routledge, 1995), 138.
2. Bourbon, John Bell Henneman Jr., Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, 138.
3. Keen, Maurice (1984). "The Rise of the Tournament". Chivalry. Yale University Press. p. 87. ISBN 0-300-03360-5.
4. de Beaumanoir, Philippe (1899–1900). "Prologues". Coutumes de Beauvaisis. Alphonse Picard et Fils, Éditeurs. p. 2.