Jacques Ier de Bourbon Walks it

Jacques Ier de Bourbon , born in 1319, died in Lyon in 1362, was count of Walk of 1342 with 1362, count de Ponthieu of 1351 with 1360 and Connétable of France of 1354 with 1356.

It was wire of Louis I {{er}}, duke of Bourbon and count of Walk, and of Marie d' Avesnes. He is ancestor by the males of the king Henri IV.

He fought in 1341 and 1342 for the account of Charles of Blois against Jean de Montfort which fought for the succession of Brittany. In 1351, the king Jean II the Good gives him the Ponthieu

It is then present at the Bataille of Crécy (1346), where it is wounded. With Poitiers (1356), it also is wounded and made captive. The peace of Brétigny signed (1360), it loses Ponthieu, returned to the English, and fights to remove the kingdom from the bands of truck drivers, these demobilized mercenaries who start to plunder the campaigns.

An engagement took place with Brignais, close to Lyon, where the count of Walk and his oldest son were mortally wounded.

---- He had married in 1335 Jeanne de Châtillon, rams of Cop and of Carency (1320 † 1371), and had had:

Isabelle (1340 † 1371), married in first weddings in 1362 with Louis II of Brienne, Viscount of Beaumont († 1364), then in second weddings in 1364 with Bouchard VII († 1371), count de Vendôme and of Castrate
Pierre (1342 † 1362), count of Walk
Jean Ier (1344 † 1393), count of Walk and of Vendôme
Jacques Ier (1346 † 1417), lord of Courtyards, stem of the branch of the Bourbons lords of Courtyards.

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