Louis Ier of Flanders

Louis de Dampierre known as Louis of Nevers or Louis de Crécy , (° Nevers, towards 1304 - † Crécy, August 26th 1346), count de Flandre ( Louis Ier , of 1322 to 1346), of Nevers and of Rethel ( Louis II , of 1322 with 1346), wire of Louis I {{er}} of Dampierre, count de Nevers, and of Jeanne, countess of Rethel.

His/her grandfather Robert III made him marry in 1317 the girl of the king de France Philippe V, Marguerite, alliance prestigious, which was nevertheless the occasion for Robert to accept the " Transport of Flandre".

He succeeded after the death of his father his grandfather Robert III in September 1322. Without awaiting the downstream of king de France, it precipitated in Flanders to be made there proclaim count in order to precede the ambitions of his uncle Robert, which displeased with Charles IV which temporarily made it lock up, before the Parliament of Paris formally does not recognize it like new count.

All its life, Louis of Nevers was going to remain a foreigner for the Flemings. With that several raisons : his/her father, count de Nevers, had never been count de Flandre; the new count, high with the Louvre had never remained before in his future domaine : besides he preferred to still live a few years in the Resident of Nevers, where the concept of feudality corresponded better to perception that he had some, that which he found with his advent in Flanders, where freedoms of the cities were paramount for the craftsmen and the merchants. Prince before any French, faithful by chivalrous ideal to his natural suzerain, it obstinately refused alliance English, however vital with industry Flemish clothier, which the Flemings could not admit, who had fought and even beaten the feudal elites as well Flemish as French in a recent past (Courtrai, 1302). Whereas all its prédécessurs had been close to the economic interests of the county, Louis of Nevers dissociated some by vanity or incomprehension.

He thus yielded the port of Sluis to his great-uncle Jean de Namur with the great dissatisfaction with the Brugeans, which raised and reflect with bag the rival port (1323). He let control his French advisers initially, but ends up sparing the Flemish nobility. However this one, because essentially pro-Frenchwoman, was scorned so much by the people that part of the county (Courtrai, Bruges,…) raised itself, carried out by Nicolas Zanekin. The count was even captured and his companions carried out (fire of Courtrai, June 19th 1325). Slackened (December 1326), the count finally had to call upon the king Philippe VI, which crushed the revolted cities with Cassel in 1328. Louis could thus temporarily reinforce his capacity and to grant to the cities of more restrictive freedoms, than the Brugeans qualified " Bad privilège".

Even if it sat henceforth in their city, Louis dissatisfied the Ganteses in 1335 while obliging, according to the will of the king Philippe VI, the Flemish ships with guerroyer against the English ships of Edouard III. They were the first episodes of the Guerre One hundred Year old (of which the following were going to be held mainly on the Flemish ground, in the absence of the count). Deprived of English wool, the Flanders entered immediately in economic crisis, and the hatred so much of the workmen than of the craftsmen was focused on the count.

The arrest of a Gantese patriot, Siger Courtraisien, put fire at the poudre : the Ganteses took for chief a very popular middle-class man, Jacques Van Artevelde (1337), and pushed back under its control the avant-garde of the royal army (Ghent, April 11th 1338). Artevelde demolished the knighthood of the count in front of the castle of Biervliet (April 13rd). It was definitively done by it authority comtale of Louis of Nevers. Jacques Van Artevelde became the true Master of the Flanders and negotiated the revival of the trade with Edouard III. Louis of Nevers flees of Ghent (be 1338) and took refuge at the Court of Philippe of valois.

After the assassination of Jacques Van Artevelde, in 1345, it tried to reestablish in Flanders, settled with Termonde, but was driven out by it by the Ganteses. He refused to recognize the suzerainty of Edouard III who had meanwhile proclaimed king de France and had been recognized like such by the Flemings, informant whom he would make homage to Edouard only when this monarch would have taken possession of France. He then sold to the duke Henri II of the Brabant the seigniory the Malignant ones which he had with difficulty acquired against the father of this one (1333 - 1336) and returned at Philippe VI, whom he followed in his campaigns against the English. Thus he was massacred as so much other French knights during the Bataille of Crécy.

Its body was buried by Edouard III with the abbey of Saint-Riquier, then brought back later to Bruges by his/her son and successor Louis II, which made him build a mausoleum in the Saint-Donat church.

Of her marriage with Marguerite de France (1310 - † 1382), girl of Philippe V Length, king de France and of Jeanne II of Burgundy, countess of Burgundy and of Artois, which inherited in 1361, of the counties of Burgundy (Franche-Comté) and of Artois, it left a son:

Louis II of Male (1330 - † 1384)

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