Mother Adelaide de Maurienne Name Robert Count | ||
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Children Robert II, Count of Dreux, Philip of Dreux Parents Adelaide of Maurienne, Louis VI of France Grandchildren Peter I, Duke of Brittany, Robert III, Count of Dreux Grandparents Philip I of France, Bertha of Holland, Humbert II, Count of Savoy, Gisela of Burgundy, Marchioness of Montferrat Similar People Louis VI of France, Robert II of France, Louis VII of France, Philip I of France, Marie of France - Countess | ||
Robert I of Dreux, nicknamed the Great (c. 1123 – 11 October 1188), was the fifth son of Louis VI of France and Adélaide de Maurienne. Through his mother he was related to the Carolingians and to the Marquess William V of Montferrat.
In 1137 he received the County of Dreux as an appanage from his father. He held this title until 1184 when he granted it to his son Robert II.
In 1139 he married Agnes de Garlande. In 1145, he married Hawise of Salisbury. By his third marriage to Agnes de Baudemont in 1152, he received the County of Braine-sur-Vesle, and the lordships of Fère-en-Tardenois, Pontarcy, Nesle, Longueville, Quincy-en-Tardenois, Savigny, and Baudemont.
Robert I participated in the Second Crusade and was at the Siege of Damascus in 1148. In 1158 he fought against the English and participated in the Siege of Séez in 1154.
Marriages and children
1.Agnes de Garlande (1122–1143), daughter of Anseau de Garlande, count of Rochefort.
2.Hawise of Salisbury (1118–1152), daughter of Walter Fitz Edward of Salisbury, Sheriff of Wiltshire
3.Agnes de Baudemont, Countess of Braine (1130 – c. 1202).
The Sicilian chancellor Stephen du Perche may also have been a son (legitimate or not) of his.