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Charles I, Duke of Bourbon

{{Short description|French noble (1401–1456)}}

{{Redirect|Charles I de Bourbon|the archbishop of Rouen|Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon (born 1523)}}

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| name = Charles I

| image = Karel Bourb.jpg

| caption = Drawing of Charles I

| succession = Duke of Bourbon

| reign = 1434 – 4 December 1456

| predecessor = John I

| house = Bourbon

| father = John I, Duke of Bourbon

| mother = Marie, Duchess of Auvergne

| spouse = Agnes of Burgundy

| issue = {{plainlist|

| successor = John II

| birth_date = 1401

| birth_place =

| death_date = 4 December {{death year and age|1456|1401}}

| death_place = Château de Moulins

}}

Charles de Bourbon (1401 – 4 December 1456) was the oldest son of John I, Duke of Bourbon and Marie, Duchess of Auvergne.

Biography

Charles was Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis from 1424, and Duke of Bourbon and Auvergne from 1434 to his death, although due to the imprisonment of his father after the Battle of Agincourt, he acquired control of the duchy more than eighteen years before his father's death.{{sfn|Pernoud|Clin|1986|p=177}}

In 1425, Charles renewed his earlier betrothal by marrying Agnes of Burgundy (1407–1476), daughter of John the Fearless.{{sfn|Vaughan|2004|p=123}}

Charles served with distinction in the Royal army during the Hundred Years' War, while nevertheless maintaining a truce with his brother-in-law and otherwise enemy, Philip III, Duke of Burgundy. Both dukes were reconciled and signed an alliance by 1440.{{sfn|Vaughan|2004|p=123}} He was present at the coronation of Charles VII where he fulfilled the function of a peer and conferred knighthood.{{sfn|Pernoud|Clin|1986|p=177}}

Despite this service, he took part in the "Praguerie" (a revolt by the French nobles against Charles VII) in 1439–1440. When the revolt collapsed, he was forced to beg for mercy from the King, and was stripped of some of his lands.{{sfn|Pernoud|Clin|1986|p=177}} He died on his estates at Château de Moulins in 1456.

Children

Charles and Agnes had eleven children:

References

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Sources

  • {{cite book |title=A Blessing of Unicorns: The Paris and Cloisters Tapestries |first=Barbara Drake |last=Boehm |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |year=2020 }}
  • {{cite book |title=Women, Manuscripts and Identity in Northern Europe, 1350-1550 |first=Joni M. |last=Hand |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2017 }}
  • {{cite journal|last1=Kiening|first1=Christian|title=Rhétorique de la perte. L'exemple de la mort d'Isabelle de Bourbon (1465)|journal=Médiévales|volume=13|issue=27|pages=15–24|doi=10.3406/medi.1994.1307|url=https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/123767/1/Kiening_Rh%C3%A9torique%20de%20la%20perte_1994.pdf |year=1994 |language=fr-FR}}
  • {{cite book |last1=Pernoud |first1=Régine |first2=Marie-Véronique |last2=Clin |translator-first=Jeremy duQuesnay |translator-last=Adams |title=Joan of Arc |publisher=St.Martin's Press |year=1986 }}
  • {{cite book |last=Vaughan |first=Richard |title=Philip the Good |publisher=The Boydell Press |year=2004 }}
  • {{cite book |title=The Cambridge Modern History |volume=13 |editor-first1=Adolphus William |editor-last1=Ward |editor-first2=G.W. |editor-last2=Prothero |editor-first3=Stanley |editor-last3=Leathes |publisher=The Macmillan Co. |year=1911 }}

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Category:1401 births

Category:1456 deaths

Category:House of Bourbon (France)

Category:Dukes of Bourbon

Category:Dukes of Auvergne

Category:Counts of Forez

Category:Counts of Isle-Jourdain

Category:Burials at Souvigny Priory

Category:15th-century peers of France

Category:People of the Hundred Years' War