Ancestral Trails 2016 » Charles de BOURBON I (1401-1456)

Personal data Charles de BOURBON I 

• He was born in the year 1401 in France.
• Title: Duke of Bourbon, Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis
• He died on December 4, 1456 in Château de Moulins, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, he was 55 years old.
• A child of Jean de BOURBON and Marie de BERRY

Household of Charles de BOURBON I

He is married to Agnes de BURGUNDY.

They got married in the year 1426, he was 25 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Charles de BOURBON  1434-1488
2. Catharine de BOURBON  1440-1469 
3. Jean de BOURBON  1426-1488 
4. Pierre de BOURBON  1438-1503 
5. Marie de BOURBON  1428-1448 
6. Isabella de BOURBON  1436-1465

• The couple has common ancestors.



Notes about Charles de BOURBON I

Charles de Bourbon (1401 - 4 December 1456, Château de Moulins) was the oldest son of John I, Duke of Bourbon and Marie, Duchess of Auvergne.

He was Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis from 1424, and Duke of Bourbon and Auvergne from 1434 to his death, although due to the imprisonment of his father after the Battle of Agincourt, he acquired control of the duchy more than eighteen years before his father's death.

In 1425, Charles renewed his earlier betrothal by marrying Agnes of Burgundy (1407-1476), daughter of John the Fearless. Charles entered a relationship with Jeanne de Bournan, together they had Louis de Bourbon, Count of Roussillon. Louis founded the House of Bourbon-Roussillon (Rossello). Louis is known for his many services to the State. As a reward for his loyalty and dedication to Louis XI during the League of the Public Weal conflict, Louis XI gave him in marriage his legitimized daughter Jeanne de Valois.

Charles served with distinction in the Royal army during the Hundred Years' War, while nevertheless maintaining a truce with his brother-in-law and otherwise enemy, Philip III, Duke of Burgundy. Both dukes were reconciled and signed an alliance by 1440. He was present at the coronation of Charles VII where he fulfilled the function of a peer and conferred knighthood.

Despite this service, he took part in the "Praguerie" (a revolt by the French nobles against Charles VII) in 1439-1440. When the revolt collapsed, he was forced to beg for mercy from the King, and was stripped of some of his lands. He died on his estates in 1456.

Children
Charles and Agnes had eleven children:

John of Bourbon (1426-1488), Duke of Bourbon
Mary of Bourbon (1428-1448), married in 1444 John II, Duke of Lorraine
Philip of Bourbon (1430-1440), Lord of Beaujeu
Charles of Bourbon (Château de Moulins 1434-1488, Lyon), Cardinal and Archbishop of Lyon and Duke of Bourbon
Isabella of Bourbon (1436-1465), married Charles, Duke of Burgundy
Peter of Bourbon, (1438-1503, Château de Moulins), Duke of Bourbon
Louis of Bourbon (1438 - August 30, 1482, murdered), Bishop of Liège
Margaret of Bourbon (February 5, 1439 - 1483, Château du Pont-Ains), married in Moulins on April 6, 1472 Philip II, Duke of Savoy
Catharine of Bourbon (Liège, 1440 - May 21, 1469, Nijmegen), married on December 28, 1463 in Bruges Adolf II, Duke of Guelders
Joanna of Bourbon (1442-1493, Brussels), married in Brussels in 1467 John II of Chalon, Prince of Orange
James of Bourbon (1445-1468, Bruges), Count of Montpensier. Unmarried

Illegitimate children
Louis de Bourbon, one of the first Knights of the Order of Saint-Michel, appointed by letters patent of Louis XI in 1469.
Renaud de Bourbon, abbot of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, Archbishop of Narbonne from 1473 to 1482.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I,_Duke_of_Bourbon


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