Waleran III, Count of Ligny

Waleran III of Luxembourg
Count of Ligny and Saint-Pol
Reign	1371 - 1415
Predecessor	Guy I
Successor	Philip
Born	1355
Died	25 October 1415 Agincourt
Spouse	Maud Holland (c.1374 - 1392) Bona of Bar (c.1392 - 1400)
Issue	Jeanne of Luxembourg
House	House of Luxemburg
Father	Guy of Luxembourg
Mother	Mahaut of Châtillon

Waleran III of Luxembourg (1355 – October 25, 1415 in Agincourt), Count of Ligny and Saint Pol, was a French nobleman and soldier.

Life

He was the son of Guy of Luxembourg and Mahaut of Châtillon. He succeeded his father in 1371, after his death at the Battle of Baesweiler. Waleran was captured at the same battle, but released through the intercession of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor. In 1374, he was captured by the English before Ardres and sent to Windsor as a prisoner. The English attempted to exchange him for Jean III de Grailly, captal de Buch, but without success. In 1380, while a captive, he married Maud Holland (d. 1392), daughter of Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent and Joan of Kent and stepdaughter of Edward, the Black Prince. This allowed him to negotiate down his ransom, and he was released soon afterwards. Maud bore him a daughter, Jeanne (d. 1407), who married Antoine, Duke of Brabant in 1401.

After Maud's death, he married Bona of Bar (d. 1400), daughter of Duke Robert of Bar and Marie of Valois (daughter of John II of France), but had no issue by her. He was one of the peace commissioners sent to London in 1396, and made a futile attack on the English at Mercq near Calais in 1405.^[1] He was of the party of Philip II, Duke of Burgundy, marrying his daughter to Philip's son Antoine. Under the Burgundians he obtained preferment, becoming Grand Maitre de Eaux et Forests, the governor of Paris in 1410, and Constable of France in 1411. However, he lost the Constableship and was driven from Paris with the rest of the Burgundians in 1413. He rode out for the last time in 1415, and was killed at the Battle of Agincourt. His son-in-law Antoine was killed there as well, so Waleran was succeeded by Antoine's younger son, Philip of Saint-Pol.

Ancestors

Ancestors of Waleran III, Count of Ligny

16. Waleran I of Luxembourg, Lord of Ligny               8. Waleran II of Luxembourg, Lord of Ligny                       17. Joanna of Beauvoir               4. John I of Luxembourg                             18. John IV of Lille               9. Guyotte of Lille                       19. Béatrix of Clemnont               2. Guy of Luxembourg                                   20. William IV of Dendermonde               10. Guy V of Richebourg                       21. Alix of Beaumont               5. Alix of Dampierre                             22. Nicholas III of Putten               11. Beatrix of Putten                       23. Aleida of Strijen               1. Waleran III of Luxembourg                                         24. Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol               12. Guy III of Chatillon                       25. Matilda of Brabant               6. John of Châtillon, Count of Saint-Pol                             26. John II, Duke of Brittany               13. Marie of Brittany, Countess of Saint-Pol                       27. Beatrice of England               3. Mahaut of Châtillon                                   28. William II of Fiennes               14. John of Fiennes, Lord of Tingry                       29. Blanche of Brienne               7. Joanna of Fiennes                             30. Guy, Count of Flanders               15. Isabella of Dampierre                       31. Isabelle of Luxembourg

References

1. Enguerrand de Monstrelet (trans. Thomas Jones 1845, vol. 1 35-37).