Louis I, Count of Nevers

Louis I (1272 – 22 July 1322) was suo jure Count of Nevers and jure uxoris Count of Rethel.

Louis I, Count of Nevers
Count Louis (right)
Born	1272
Died	(1322-07-22)22 July 1322 Paris
Noble family	House of Dampierre
Spouse(s)	Joan, Countess of Rethel
Issue	Joanna, Duchess of Brittany Louis I, Count of Flanders
Father	Robert III, Count of Flanders
Mother	Yolande II, Countess of Nevers

Louis was a son of Robert III, Count of Flanders,^[1] and Yolande, Countess of Nevers.^[2] He succeeded his parents as Count of Nevers. In December 1290, he married Joan, Countess of Rethel,^[3] and thus became her co-ruler in the County of Rethel. They had two children:

• Joanna of Flanders
• Louis I, Count of Flanders,^[3] Nevers and Rethel

He died in Paris shortly before his father and thus never succeeded his father as Count of Flanders.

References

1. William H. TeBrake, A Plague of Insurrection: Popular Politics and Peasant Revolt in Flanders, 1323-1328 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993), 36.
2. The Low Countries and the Disputed Imperial Election of 1314, Henry S. Lucas, Speculum, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Jan., 1946), 80.
3. David M Nicholas, Medieval Flanders, (Taylor & Francis, 1992), 442.

Louis I, Count of Nevers House of Dampierre Born: 1272 Died: 22 July 1322
French nobility
Preceded by Yolande and Robert	Count of Nevers   1280–1322	Succeeded by Louis I
Preceded by Joan as sole ruler	Count of Rethel   1290–1322	Succeeded by Joan as sole ruler