Robert II de la Marck
Robert II de la Marck,(b.1468 - d. November 1536), Duke of Bouillon, Belgium, and Seigneur of Sedan, France.[1] Son of Robert I de la Marck and Jeanne de Saulcy.[2]
Robert would fight against the supporters of John de Horne, Bishop of Liege, along with his own minor border engagements in the latter 15th century.[2] He fought at the battle of Novara, saving the lives of his sons,[2] was seriously wounded, taking two months to recover.[3]
By 1518, Robert was allied with Charles I of Spain, but later reconciled with Francis I of France. In 1521, he would place Virton under siege, thus instigating the Four Years War.[2] During the war between Charles and Francis, Robert would be driven from his lands by Charles which were restored following the Treaty of Madrid (1526).[2]
He married Catherine de Croÿ, daughter of Philip I of Croÿ-Chimay, Count of Chimay, in 1490. They had:
- Philippine, m. Renaud sieur de Brederode[1] in 1521.[4]
- Robert III de La Marck, seigneur of Florange (d.1537)[1]
- Philip (d.1545)[1]
- Antoine[1]
- William seigneur de Jametz
- John seigneur de Jametz
- Jacques chevalier de l'ordre de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem
- Jacqueline
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Desiderius Erasmus, The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 594-841, transl. R. A. B. Mynors and D.F.S. Thomson, (University of Toronto Press, 1979), 257 note29.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Bouillon, Robert II de la Marck, Duke de,, Angelo Louisa, The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography, ed. Trevor N. Dupuy, Curt Johnson, and David L. Bongard, (Castle Books, 1995), 97.
- ↑ Pain and Memory: The War Wounds of Blaise de Monluc, Michael Wolfe, France and Its Spaces of War: Experience, Memory, Image, ed. P. Lorcin and D. Brewer, (Springer, 2009), 110.
- ↑ Images and Objects in Ritual Practices in Medieval and Early Modern Northern and Central Europe, ed. Krista Kodres and Anu Mänd, (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), 151.