Pierre (Luxembourg) de Luxembourg (1390 - 1433)

Born 1390 in Naples, Napoli, Campania, Italy

Ancestors

Husband of Marguerite (Baux) de Luxembourg — married 8 May 1405 (to 31 Aug 1433) in St Pol sur Ternoise, Artois, Pas-de-Calais, France

Descendants

Died 31 Aug 1433 at about age 43 in Chateau Rambures, Somme, Picardie, France

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Biography

Pierre Luxembourg was a member of the aristocracy in Europe.

Pierre de Luxembourg, son of Jean de Luxembourg, Seigneur de Beauvoir et de Richebourg, and his wife, Marguerite d’Enghien. He was born about 1390 in Naples, Italy and died 31 August 1433 at Chateau de Rambures, Rambures, Somme, Picardy, France^[1]

Count of St. Pol, of Brienne and of Conversano.

Pierre married Marguerite del Balzo (des Baux), daughter of Francesco I del Balzo (des Baux), 1st Duke of Andria and his 3rd wife, Sueva Orsini, on 8 May 1405. They had 9 children:^[2]

1. Catherine de Luxembourg, d. 1492
2. Isabelle de St. Pol Countess de Guise, d. 1472
3. Thiebaud de Luxembourg, seigneur de Fiennes, Comte de Brienne+1,13 d. 1 Sep 1477
4. Jacques de Luxembourg-Saint-Pol, seigneur de Fiennes, Richebourg, comte de Saint-Pol, d. 20 Aug 1487
5. Waléran de Luxembourg
6. Jean de Luxembourg
7. Philippa de Luxembourg
8. Jacquette de Luxembourg, Dutchess of Bedford, b. c 1415, d. 30 May 1472
9. Louis I, Comte de Luxembourg, St. Pol, et de Ligny, b. 1418, d. 19 Dec 1475

He died of the Bubonic Plague on 31 August 1433 at the Chateau de Rambures, Picardie, France, and was buried at the Abbey of Cercamp, Artois, Pas-de-Calais, France. His wife survived until 1469. She was born in 1394 at les Baux (le Balzo) in Provence.

Ancestor of John Alston of North Carolina and possibly ancestor of Grace Newton (Elizabeth Willoughby).

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S830 Page: 3; Quality or Certainty of Data: 3. Note: In "Medieval Lands" it states he was born at the Chateau de Rambures, in Picardie, France. See Sources.
2. ↑ Pierre I (?) Comte de de Luxembourg, St. Pol, Brienne and Conversano on Acvancestors.com

• "Royal Ancestry" Douglas Richardson, 2013, Vol. III page 4

• "Royal Ancestry" Douglas Richardson, 2013, Vol. III. p. 132

Anthony Grey, Knt., son and heir apparent. He married before 1475 Joan (or Jane) Wydeville, daughter of Richard Wydeville, K.G., 1st Earl Rivers, Constable of England, Lord High Treasurer, by Jacquette, daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol sur Ternoise, Artois, France, and Brienne (in Champagne). She was the sister of Queen Elizabeth Wydeville, wife of King Edward IV of England. They had no issue.

• "Royal Ancestry" Douglas Richardson, 2013, Vol. III. p. 160

John Grey, Knt., son of Elizabeth Ferrers, by Edward Grey, Knt., born about 1432. He married about 8 Jan. 1454/5 Elizabeth Wydeville, eldest daughter of Richard Wydeville, L.G., 1st Earl Rivers, Constable of England, Lord High Treasurer, by Jacquette, daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol, Conversano, and Brienne. She was born about 1437. They had two sons, Thomas, K.G., K.B. and Richard, Knt. Sir John Grey was slain on the Lancastrian side at the 2nd Battle of St. Albans 17 Feb. 1460/1.

• Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. V page 423

• http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_de_Luxembourg

• S303 Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000

• S648 Our Kingdom Come (Last updated October 10, 2004. Accessed December 2, 2005)

• S830 The Plantagenet Ancestry, by William Henry Turton, 1968.

• Pierre I, Comte de Luxembourg, St. Pol, Brienne and Conversano on Acvancestors.com States he was born near Naples, in the south of Italia. FMG states he was born at the Chateau de Rambures. See: Pierre died 1433 on Medieval Lands