Robert III of Artois

Robert III of Artois , born in 1287, lord of Domfront, receives in 1310 the county of Beaumont-the-Roger of compensation for the county of Artois to which he claimed.

He is the son of the Capétien Philippe d' Artois, lord of Conches-in-Ouche and the Capétienne Blanche, girl of the duke Jean II of Brittany.

He is only eleven years old when occurs, on September 11th 1298, the death of his father Philippe d' Artois following the wounds which he received with the Bataille of Furnes on August 20th 1297 against the Flemings. The early disappearance of his/her father will be one of the indirect causes so that it is isolated succession of the county of Artois.

After death with the of Courtrai in 1302 of his/her grandfather battles, Robert II of Artois, it is the girl of the latter, Mahaut which takes possession of the heritage as being the direct heiress. At this time there, the young person Robert III cannot think of putting forward a representation of the rights of his father whom the habit of Artois ignores.

He is opposed however very quickly to his aunt, takes the head of a feudal movement in 1316, brings two lawsuits with Mahaut in front of the Cour of the pars (1309 and 1318) and loses them.

Rancour and the intrigues between Mahaut (called sometimes Mathilde) and Robert will enamel a whole period of quarrels between France and England preceding the One hundred Year old war.

Married to Jeanne de Valois, sister of the king de France Philippe VI, it has a certain influence with the royal Conseil. The example of the succession of Flanders the conduit to engage a new legal action, for which it is the wrong to call upon the will of his father, attested by a forgery manufactured of all parts by Jeanne de Divion.

After the death of Mahaut in 1329, the king of France takes the county under its guard. The description of false makes lose in Robert his lawsuit, Jeanne de Divion is condemned to the Bûcher and Robert is dispossessed of all his goods (1331) and is banished in 1332. In 1331, his wife Jeanne de Valois is imprisoned with Castle-Strapping man with her three sons after the banishment of her husband who initially finds refuge at the duke of the Brabant.

Definitively dispossessed, under the threat of royal justice, it is full with rancour that he flees France. Exiled in Flanders, then with the the Brabant in 1331 and even with Avignon, it finds finally refuge in England in December 1336, where it encourages Edouard III to reconquer the heritage of the throne of France, and to start for that the One hundred Year old war. It provided many information on the Court of France.

Being useful in the English army, it is mortally wounded under the ramparts of Vannes at the beginning of the War of succession of Brittany and dies in 1342.

It was buried in the Saint-Paul cathedral of London.

Maurice Druon makes the main character of it (the “hero”, could one say) succession of historical novels the cursed Kings .

Of her marriage with Jeanne de Valois, girl of Charles de Valois and Catherine de Courtenay, it had had:

Catherine (1318-1368)
Louis (1320-1329)
Jean (1321-1387), count of Have
Jeanne (1323-1324)
Jacques (1325-ap.1347)
Robert (1326-ap.1347)
Charles (1328-1385), count de Pezenas

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