GUI of Dampierre

See also: Guy de Dampierre (homonymy)

GUI or Guy de Dampierre , born towards 1226, died in Compiegne the March 7th 1305, was proclaimed Count de Flandre in 1253 by his/her mother and became effective count with dead of the latter in 1279 until in 1305. It was also count de Namur of 1264 with 1305. He was the second wire of Guillaume II of Dampierre and Marguerite of Constantinople.

Biography

Its youth was marked by the fratricidal fight between the German Dampierre (him and his/her brothers) and Avesnes (his/her uterine, elder brothers) for the possession of the counties of Flanders and Hainaut. After ten years of war, the compromise suggested by the king Louis IX of France in 1246 was finally approved (1256), but the conflicts had already cost three years of its freedom to GUI, prisoner of the jails Dutchwomen after the battle of West-Cappel (1253). GUI, proclaimed count by his Marguerite mother of Constantinople the same year, became it indeed with the abdication of this one (1279).

In 1263, it bought with Baudouin II of Courtenay the rights of this last on the Marquisat de Namur. Henri V of Luxembourg had conquered the stronghold of Namur, and Guy undertook to reconquer it. Finally, a peace treaty reconciled the two enemies: Guy married the girl of Henri, to whom this last yielded all his rights on Namur.

He accompanied Saint Louis in Africa (1270).

Supporting like its predecessors Flemish industry (draperies) and the vital trade of wool with England, while trying to control local finances, it ran up against the urban patriciat, which was made support in an increasingly direct way by the kings of France Philippe III, then especially Philippe Beautiful the. By rebound, the commun run of the cities showed an ally faithful to GUI of Dampierre and its dynasty.

The attempt to marry his/her Filipino daughter with Edouard of England, wire of king d' Angleterre served as a pretext for the military intervention of Capétiens and the conquest (battles of Furnes, 1297) then with the occupation of the Flanders by Philippe IV (1300 - 1302), his suzerain.

GUI of Dampierre was imprisoned. But the patriotic reaction of the commun run (that of Bruges especially, directed by Pierre Deconinck, supported by the many sons of GUI drove out the French (Mâtines of Bruges, Friday May 25th 1302). The French knighthood was crushed by the " piétaille" Flemish with Courtrai (Battle of the Gold Spurs, July 11th 1302).

Philippe the Beautiful one took his revenge with Mons-in-Pévèle (August 18th 1304), but GUI of Dampierre, released, from now on had left the reality of the capacity to his/her Robert oldest son.

To honor a given word, GUI was constituted again captive and died captive in Compiegne (1305).

Historical assessment

GUI of Dampierre leaves the memory of a count anchored in the Féodalité, in its ideal meaning, realistic as for its interventionism in the trade and the industry, which founded the prosperity of the county, but unable to be opposed to pragmatism Capétiens, which played skilfully their advantage of the feudal principles to extend their power.

Marriages and children

He had married in 1246 Mathilde de Béthune († 1264), girl and heiress of Robert VII of Béthune, lord of Béthune, Termonde, Richebourg and Warneton, and Elisabeth de Morialmez. They had:
  • Robert III '' of Béthune '' (1249 † 1322), count de Flandre
  • Guillaume of Crèvecœur († 1311), lord de Termonde, of Richebourg and Crèvecœur, married in 1286 with Alix II of Clermont de Nesle, viscountess de Châteaudun († 1320). One their little girls married Jean Ier of Luxembourg, lord of Ligny.
  • Jean († 1291), bishop of Metz, then of Liege.
  • Baudouin († 1296).
  • Philippe of Chiéti (1263 † 1308), count de Thiette (Chiéti or Teano) and of Lorette, married in 1284 in Mahaut de Courtenay († 1303), countess of Thiette, then in 1304 in Pérenelle de Milly († 1335), countess of Lorette
  • Marguerite de Dampierre (1253 † 1285), married in 1273 Jean I {{er}}, duke of the Brabant († 1294).
  • Marie de Dampierre († 1297), married in 1270 Guillaume, wire of Guillaume IV, count de Juliers († 1278), then in 1285 with Simon of Castle-Unpleasant, lord d' Arc († 1305).
  • Beatrice de Dampierre († 1296), married in 1270 with Florent V, count de Hollande.

Widower, it remaria in 1264 with Isabelle of Luxembourg († 1298), girl of Henri V of Luxembourg, duke of Luxembourg and Marguerite de Bar. They had:

  • Jean I {{er}} (1267 † 1330), count de Namur
  • GUI of Namur († 1311), count de Zélande and of Richebourg, married in 1311 in Marguerite of Lorraine (s.p.).
  • Henri de Dampierre († 1337), count de Lodi, married in 1309 in Marguerite de Clèves, of which: Henri II of Lodi († 1366) and Marguerite.
  • Marguerite († 1331) married in 1282 with Alexandre of Scotland († 1284), prince d' Écosse, wire of Alexandre III of Scotland, then with Renaud I {{er}} († 1327), count de Gueldre.
  • Béatrix or Beatrice († ap.1303) married to Hugues de Châtillon, count de Blois († 1307).
  • Jeanne, nun with Flines
  • Philippe, known as Philippa or Filipino, promised in marriage to prince de Galles (future Edouard II of England, captive dead in Blois in 1306.
  • Isabelle († 1323), married in 1307 in Jean de Fiennes, lord of the manor of Bourbourg, baron of Fiennes and Tingry.

Sources and bibliography

  • Glay Edward: History of the counts de Flandre until the advent of the House of Burgundy , Counter of Printer-plain, Paris, MDCCCXLIII
  • Platelle Henri and Clauzel Denis: History of the French provinces of North, 2. Principalities with the empire of Charles Quint (900-1519) , Westhoek-Editions Editions of the Belfries, 1989; ISBN 2-87789-004-X
  • Douxchamps Cecile and Jose: Our dynastes medieval , Wepion-Namur 1996, Jose Douxchamps, editor; ISBN 29600078-1-6

Note

For a source of the 19th century, the Dictionary Bouillet, Dampierre came to Paris in 1305 to beseech the leniency of the king, but Philippe IV retained it captive.

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