Guy I, Count of Ligny

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Guy I of Luxembourg-Ligny
Born1340
Died23 August 1371(1371-08-23) (aged 30–31)
John I of Luxembourg, Lord of Ligny
MotherAlix of Dampierre

Guy I of Luxembourg-Ligny (1340 – 23 August 1371) was

Count of Ligny, Lord of Roussy
and Beauvoir (1364–1371).

He was the son of

John I
and Alix of Dampierre, dame de Richebourg.

Guy participated in the

Wenceslaus I of Luxembourg, husband of the Duchess of Brabant on the one side, and William II, Duke of Jülich and Edward, Duke of Guelders on the other side. Guy was killed during the battle.[1]

According to the chronicler Jan van Boendale who wrote in the Brabantsche Yeesten, Guy lay wounded and abandoned on the battlefield, until he was discovered by a scavenger the next day, who killed and robbed him.[citation needed] When this plunderer tried later to sell his booty, he was hanged.[citation needed]

Marriage and children

In 1354, Guy married Mahaut de Châtillon (1335–1378), Countess of Saint-Pol, daughter of

Jean de Châtillon-Saint-Pol and Jeanne de Fiennes,[2]
and had:

  • Waleran III (1356–1415), Count of Ligny and of Saint-Pol[2]
  • Pierre (1369–1387), bishop of Metz and cardinal,[3] beatified in 1527
  • Margaret, married in 1377
    Jean III de Werchin et Cysoing
    , died at the Battle of Agincourt
  • John II of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny
    .
  • André (died 1396), Bishop of Cambrai
  • Marie, married Jean de Condé (died 1391), and Simon, count of Salm (died 1397)
  • Joan, Countess of Ligny (died 1430)

Ancestors

References

Sources

  • Boffa, Sergio (2004). Warfare in Medieval Brabant, 1356-1406, Volume 17. The Boydell Press.
  • Brown-Grant, Rosalind; Damen, Mario, eds. (2022). A Chivalric Life: The Book of the Deeds of Messire Jacques de Lalaing. The Boydell Press.
  • Bubenicek, Michelle (2002). Quand les femmes gouvernent: droit et politique au XIVe siècle. Ecole de Chartes.
  • Gregory, Philippa; Baldwin, David; Jones, Michael, eds. (2011). The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother. Simon & Schuster Inc.


Guy I, Count of Ligny
Born: 1340 Died: 23 August 1371
Preceded by
Guy V
Count of Saint-Pol

(jure uxoris)
1360–1371
Succeeded by
Waleran III
Preceded by
John I
Count of Ligny

1364–1371