Ferry III of Lorraine

Biography

It was only thirteen years old with died of his father and regency was assumed by his/her mother. It became major later a few years. In 1255, it marries a Champagne princess, Marguerite de Champagne. This marriage will mark the beginning of the French influence in Lorraine, more especially as the niece of Marguerite Jeanne, will marry in 1284 the future king de France Philippe Beautiful the. This new influence counterbalanced the Germanic influence, one time when the Holy roman Empire is in crisis, and will make it possible Lorraine to become in fact an independent state, but will lead to the fastening of Lorraine in France in 1766.

During its reign, it often fought the bishops of Metz so much so that the Pape Clément IV had the to excommunicate and strike the duchy of Interdit to put an end to its carried out quarrelsome.

In 1257, the Électeurs of the Holy roman Empire met in Diète in Frankfurt in order to find a successor with Guillaume of Holland. They did not succeed in agreeing and appointed two emperors, Alphonse X of Castille and Richard de Cornouailles. Ferry was a partisan of Alphonse, but there were few engagements and after the death of the two applicants, Rodolphe Ier de Habsbourg was elected in 1273

Wishing to be based on the urban middle-class to strengthen its influence on its Suzerin S, it granted franknesses to principal the towns of its Duchy: Nancy, Neufchâteau, Longwy. This policy attracted solids resentments to him. Whereas it returned from a hunting in the wood of Laxou, Adrian of Armoises, lord of Maxéville captured it and locked up it in its castle. Years later he managed to forward his ring to the Marguerite duchess via a carpenter who had been charged to maintain the roof his prison. This one sent to a troop soldier to release her husband, Adrian of Armoises released the duke without fighting.

Marriage and children

He marries in 1255 Marguerite de Champagne, girl Thibaut Ier, king de Navarre and count de Champagne and of Marguerite de Bourbon. They had:

Thiébaut II (1263 † 1312), duke of Lorraine
Mathieu († 1282), lord of Beauregard
Frederic († 1299), bishop of Orleans (1297-1299)
Frederic († v.1320), lord of Plombiéres, Romont and Brémoncourt
Gerard, listed in 1317
Isabelle († 1335), married in 1287 with Louis III, duke of Low-Bavaria, then in Henri de Sully, and in 1306 with Henri III of Vaudémont († 1348), count de Vaudémont
Catherine, Lady of Romont, married in 1290 with Conrad III († 1350), count de Fribourg
Agnes, married to Jean II († 1302), lord d' Harcourt

Sources

dukes of Lorraine, 1048-1757. Historical costumes and notes , Jean Cayon 1854.

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