Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine

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Not to be confused with Frederick III, Duke of Upper Lorraine.
Frederick III
SIGILLUM FREDERICI LOT[HARING]IE ET MARCH[IONIS]
Duke of Lorraine
Reign1251 - 1302
PredecessorMatthias II, Duke of Lorraine
SuccessorTheobald II, Duke of Lorraine
Born1240
Died31 December 1302
SpouseMargaret of Navarre
IssueTheobald II, Duke of Lorraine
Matthias
Frederick
Frederick
Gerard
Isabella
Catherine
Agnes
Margaret
HouseHouse of Lorraine
FatherMatthias II, Duke of Lorraine
MotherCatherine of Limburg

Frederick III (

Duke of Lorraine from 1251 to his death. He was the only son and successor of Matthias II and Catherine of Limburg
.

He was not yet thirteen years of age when his father died, so his mother assumed the

Margaret of Bourbon.[1] Frederick's father-in-law was the Count of Champagne
as well, and the marriage of Margaret with Frederick signified the Gallicization of Lorraine and the beginnings of tension between French and German influences which characterises its later history.

When Joan I of Navarre, Margaret's niece, (the daughter of her brother, Henry I of Navarre), married Philip the Fair, the future king of France, in 1284, the ties to France grew. The long-held loyalty of the dukes of Lorraine to the Holy Roman Emperor had waned in the first half of the thirteenth century and French influence was pervasive, leading to its permanent attachment to France in 1766.

During Frederick's reign, he fought the bishops of Metz until Pope Clement IV excommunicated him and put his duchy under an interdict.

In 1257, after the elections following the death of King

Richard, Earl of Cornwall and Alfonso X of Castile, Frederick of Lorraine sided with Alfonso, who through his mother Beatrix was the grandson of the Hohenstaufen Philip of Swabia. The rivalry between the two kings led to little actual combat and after Richard's death the 1273 election of Rudolf of Habsburg
and the subsequent withdrawal of Alfonso reestablished unity.

Family

By his marriage to Margaret,[1] he had the following issue:

References

  1. ^ a b (FR)Jean-Luc Fray, Villes et bourgs de Lorraine: réseaux urbains et centralité au Moyen Âge, (Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2007), 270.

See also

  • Dukes of Lorraine family tree
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Duke of Lorraine

1251–1302 		Succeeded by


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