John of Artois, Count of Eu

John of Artois
John of Artois with his wife Isabelle de Melun
Spouse(s)	Isabeau of Melun
Noble family	House of Artois
Father	Robert III of Artois
Mother	Jeanne of Valois
Born	(1321-08-29)29 August 1321
Died	1387

John of Artois (29 August 1321 – 1387), called "sans Terre" (Lackland), was the son of Robert III of Artois and Joan of Valois.^[1] The confiscation of his father's goods for attempted fraud in 1331 had left him without an inheritance.^[2]

In 1352, he was created Count of Eu, a title earlier forfeited at the execution of the previous holder, Raoul II of Brienne. He was badly wounded at the Battle of Poitiers on 19 September 1356, and was captured there by the English.^[3] Enormously rich his ransom was sold to the Black Prince by his captor Élie de Pommiers for 30,000 old écus.

He married Isabeau of Melun (1328–1389),^[4] daughter of John I of Melun, Count of Tancarville, on 11 July 1352 and had the following issue:

Joan (1353–1420), married at the Château d'Eu on 12 July 1365 Simon de Thouars (d. 1365), Count of Dreux
John of Artois (1355–1363), Lord of Peronne
Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (1356–1387)
Philip of Artois, Count of Eu (1357–1397)
Charles (1359 – 15 April 1368)
Isabeau (1361 – 26 June 1379)

Genealogy

Ancestors of John of Artois, Count of Eu

16. Robert I, Count of Artois

8. Robert II, Count of Artois

17. Matilda of Brabant

4. Philip of Artois

18. Pierre de Courtenay

9. Amicie de Courtenay

19. Peronelle de Joigny

2. Robert III of Artois

20. John I, Duke of Brittany

10. John II, Duke of Brittany

21. Blanche of Navarre

5. Blanche of Brittany

22. Henry III of England

11. Beatrice of England

23. Eleanor of Provence

1. John of Artois, Count of Eu

24. Louis IX of France

12. Philip III of France

25. Margaret of Provence

6. Charles, Count of Valois

26. James I of Aragon

13. Isabella of Aragon

27. Violant of Hungary

3. Joan of Valois, Countess of Beaumont

28. Baldwin II of Constantinople

14. Philip of Courtenay

29. Marie of Brienne

7. Catherine of Courtenay

30. Charles I of Naples

15. Beatrice of Sicily

31. Beatrice of Provence

Notes

↑ Froland, Louis, Memoires concernans le comté-pairi d'Eu, et ses usages pretendus locaux, (1722), 13.
↑ Anquetil, Louis-Pierre and Gallais (Jean-Pierre, M.), Vincent Marie Viénot, Histoire de France depuis les Gaulois jusqu'à la mort de Louis XVI, (Rue Neuves Des Petit Champs, 1819), 184-185.
↑ Sumption, Jonathon, The Hundred Years War: Trial by Fire, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), 147.
↑ Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert, North-eastern France, (Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., 1890), 58.

References

Anquetil, Louis-Pierre and Gallais (Jean-Pierre, M.), Vincent Marie Viénot, Histoire de France depuis les Gaulois jusqu'à la mort de Louis XVI, Rue Neuves Des Petit Champs, 1819.
Froland, Louis, Memoires concernans le comté-pairi d'Eu, et ses usages pretendus locaux, 1722.
Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert, North-eastern France, Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., 1890.
Sumption, Jonathon, The Hundred Years War: Trial by Fire, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.

French nobility
John of Artois, Count of Eu House of Artois Born: 29 August 1321 Died: 1387
Preceded by Raoul II	Count of Eu 1352–1387	Succeeded by Robert

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