Robert, Count of Clermont

Robert
Robert and his wife Beatrice
Count of Clermont
Reign1268 – 7 February 1317
SuccessorLouis I, Duke of Bourbon
Born1256
Died7 February 1317 (aged 60–61)
SpouseBeatrice of Burgundy
IssueLouis I, Duke of Bourbon
Blanche, Countess of Auvergne and Boulogne
John of Charolais
Mary of Clermont, Prioress of Poissy
Peter of Clermont, Archdeacon of Paris
Margaret, Countess of Andria, Marchioness of Namur
HouseCapet
Bourbon (founder)
FatherLouis IX of France
MotherMargaret of Provence

Robert of Clermont (1256 – 7 February 1317) was a French prince du sang who was created Count of Clermont in 1268. He was the sixth and last son of King Louis IX (Saint Louis) and Margaret of Provence.[1]

Although he played a minor role in his lifetime due to a head injury which left him handicapped at a young age, he had an important dynastic position as the founder of the House of Bourbon, to which he passed the rights to the throne of France from his father when all male-line branches descended from his elder brothers died out in 1589, nine generations after him.

  1. ^ Kibler, William W.; Zinn, Grover A.; Henneman, John Bell Jr.; Earp, Lawrence, eds. (1995). "Bourbon". Medieval France: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing. p. 138. ISBN 0-8240-4444-4.