Louis I of Bourbon, le Boiteux, the Lame (Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, 1279 – January 29, 1342) was Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis and La Marche, and the first Duke of Bourbon.

Contents 1 Life 2 Family and children 3 Notes 4 References 5 Ancestors

[edit] Life

Louis was son of Robert, Count of Clermont and grandson of King Louis IX of France. Louis' mother was Beatrix of Burgundy, heiress of Bourbon and a granddaughter of Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy.^[1]

He fought on the losing side in both the Battle of the Golden Spurs (1302) and the Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle (1304), but escaped unharmed. In 1310, he was made Grand Chambrier of France. In 1327, Charles IV of France persuaded him to exchange the County of Clermont for that of La Marche, and elevated Bourbon to a duchy-peerage. However, Clermont was restored to him by Philip VI of France in 1331. He belonged to Philip VI's small circle of trusted advisors.

Duke Louis is reported to have been mentally somewhat instable, a trait of nervous breakdowns presumably hereditary that showed clearly for example in his granddaughter Joanna of Bourbon, the queen, and in her son, king Charles VI of France, as well as down in the line in Charles' grandson king Henry VI of England.

[edit] Family and children

In 1310, Louis married Mary of Avesnes, daughter of John II of Avesnes, Count of Hainaut and Holland by Philippa of Luxembourg.^[2] They had eight children:

1. Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (1311–1356), married Isabella of Valois, had issue. Peter was killed at the Battle of Poitiers
2. Jeanne (1312–1402), married in 1324 Guigues VII, Count of Forez
3. Marguerite (1313–1362), married on July 6, 1320 Jean II de Sully, married in 1346 Hutin de Vermeilles
4. Marie of Bourbon (1315–1387, Naples), married first in Nicosia in January 1330 Guy of Lusignan (d. 1343), titular Prince of Galilee, married second on September 9, 1347 Robert of Taranto, the titular Latin Emperor. Only her first marriage produced surviving children.
5. Philip (1316 – aft. 1327)
6. James (1318)
7. James I, Count of La Marche (1319 – 1362), killed at the Battle of Brignais, from whom the later royal Bourbons descend.
8. Beatrice of Bourbon (1320 – December 23, 1383, Danvillers), married first at Vincennes in 1334 John of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia as his second wife, married herself second c. 1347 Eudes II of Grancey (d. 1389)

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[edit] References

• de la Thaumassière (sieur du Puy-Ferrand), Gaspard Thaumas, Histoire de Berry, Vol.3, Imprimerie et Lithographie de A. Jollet, 1868.
• The Encyclopedia Americana: a library of universal knowledge, Vol.4, J.D.Lyon Company:Albany, New York, 1919.

[edit] Ancestors

v • d • e Ancestors of Louis I, Duke of Bourbon

16. Philip II of France               8. Louis VIII of France                       17. Isabelle of Hainaut               4. Louis IX of France                             18. Alfonso VIII of Castile               9. Blanche of Castile                       19. Leonora of England               2. Robert, Count of Clermont                                   20. Alfonso II, Count of Provence               10. Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence                       21. Garsenda of Forcalquier               5. Marguerite of Provence                             22. Thomas I, Count of Savoy               11. Beatrice of Savoy                       23. Marguerite of Geneva               1. Louis I, Duke of Bourbon                                         24. Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy               12. Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy                       25. Alice of Vergy               6. John of Burgundy                             26. Robert III of Dreux               13. Yolande of Dreux                       27. Aénor of Saint-Valéry               3. Beatrix of Bourbon                                   28. Archambaud VIII of Bourbon               14. Archambaud IX of Bourbon                       29. Guigone de Forez               7. Agnes of Dampierre                             30. Guy de Châtillon               15. Yolande de Châtillon                       31. Agnès de Donzy

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Preceded by Robert	Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis 1317–1327	Succeeded by to royal domain
Preceded by elevated from seigneury	Duke of Bourbon 1327–1342	Succeeded by Peter I
Preceded by —	Count of La Marche 1327–1342
Preceded by —	Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis 1331–1342