Count Charles DE VALOIS

1270 - 1325  (55 years)

• Name	Charles DE VALOIS
  Prefix	Count
  Born	12 Mar 1270	Isle, Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France
  Gender	Male
  Died	16 Dec 1325	Norgent de Roi, Eure et Loire, France
  Person ID	I40407	Main
  Last Modified	6 Aug 2017

  
  

  Father	King Philip CAPET, III,   b. 1 May 1245, Château de Poissy, Poissy, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France ,   d. 5 Oct 1285, Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon, France  (Age 40 years)
  Mother	Queen Isabelle DE ARAGON,   b. 1248, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain ,   d. 28 Jan 1271, Consenza, Italy  (Age 23 years)
  Married	28 May 1262	Clermont-Ferrand, France
  Family ID	F28355	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Countess Marguerite DE ANJOU,   b. 1273, Naples, Italy ,   d. 31 Dec 1299, Anjou, Normandy, France  (Age 26 years)
  Married	16 Aug 1290	Corbeil, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France
  Children	+ 1. King Philippe CAPET, VI,   b. 17 Nov 1293, Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France ,   d. 22 Aug 1350, Eure et Loire, Beauce, Franc  (Age 56 years)   2. Countess Joan DE VALOIS,   b. Abt 1294,   d. 7 Mar 1342  (Age ~ 48 years)
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2019
  Family ID	F28357	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Was the third son of Philip III of France and Isabella of Aragon. Moderately intelligent, disproportionately ambitious and quite greedy, Charles of Valois collected principalities. Charles was married three times. His first marriage, in 1290, was to Margaret, Countess of Anjou, (1274–1299), daughter of King Charles II of Naples. They had the following children: Isabelle (1292–1309). Married John III, Duke of Brittany. Philip VI, first King of the Valois Dynasty. Joan of Valois (1294–1342). Married William I, Count of Hainaut, and had issue. Margaret of Valois (1295–1342). Married Guy I of Blois-Châtillon, Count of Blois, and had issue. Charles II, Count of Alençon (1297 – 26 August 1346 at the Battle of Crécy). Married first Jeanne de Joigny and second Marie de la Cerda and had issue from the second marriage. Catherine of Valois (b. 1299, died young). In 1302 he remarried to Catherine I of Courtenay (1274–1307), titular Empress of Constantinople. They had four children: John, Count of Chartres (1302–1308). Catherine II of Valois, Princess of Achaea, titular Empress of Constantinople (1303–1346). She married Philip I d'Anjou, Prince of Taranto, and had issue. Joan of Valois (1304–1363). Married Count Robert III of Artois and had issue. Elisabeth of Valois (1305–11 November 1349), Abbess of Fontevrault. Finally, in 1308, he married Mahaut of Châtillon (1293–1358), daughter of Guy III of Châtillon, Count of Saint Pol. They had also four children: Louis, Count of Chartres (1309–1328) Marie of Valois (1309–1332). Married Charles, Duke of Calabria, and had issue. Isabella of Valois (1313 – 26 July 1383). She married Peter I, Duke of Bourbon. Blanche of Valois (1317–1348). She married Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor. Sometimes called "Marguerite". Charles de Valois was also known to have one natural child by an unknown mother. This child was placed in a nunnery, and yet was also treated as a legitimate heir to estates, being granted title to lands in Avignon upon her majority: Theresa of Avignon, Countess of Avignon (1335–1387)