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John I, Count of Aumale

John I, Count of Aumale

Count of Ponthieu

John I of Ponthieu (d. July 11, 1302, Kortrijk, County of Flanders, Kingdom of France) was Count of Aumale.

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He was son of Ferdinand II, Count of Aumale, and Laura of Montfort.[1]

After the death of his father in 1260, he became co-ruler in the County of Aumale with his grandmother Joan. They reigned together until her death in 1279.

John married Ida of Meulan,[2] and had a son John II (1293–1343), who succeeded him.

John fought as a knight in the French army against the Flemish in the Battle of the Golden Spurs on July 11, 1302 near Kortrijk, and was one of the many nobles killed in the battle.[lower-alpha 1][3]

Notes

  1. Listed as the Count of Aumale.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Parsons 1977, p. 77.
  2. [2]
    Power 2004, p. 165.
  3. [3]
    Verbruggen 2002, p. 57.

Sources

  • Parsons, John Carmi (1977). The Court and Household of Eleanor of Castile in 1290. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.
  • Power, Daniel (2004). The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries. Cambridge University Press.
  • Verbruggen, J. F. (2002). DeVries, Kelly (ed.). The Battle of the Golden Spurs (Courtrai, 11 July 1302). Translated by Ferguson, David Richard. The Boydell Press.


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