About John I, Count of Dreux
Lived 1215 – 1249 (aged 33–34). John I, Count of Dreux was a French aristocrat.
John I of Dreux (1215–1249), Count of Dreux and Braine, was the son of Robert III of Dreux and Annora (Aenor) of Saint-Valéry.
Life Knighted by King Louis IX of France, John accompanied the king on several campaigns, firstly in Poitou in 1242, where he fought at the Battle of Taillebourg. In 1249 he joined the king on the Seventh Crusade to Egypt, but died at Nicosia in the Kingdom of Cyprus before arriving.
In 1240 he married Marie (1220–1274), daughter of Archambaud VIII of Bourbon. They had three children: Robert IV (1241–1282), succeeded his father. John, joined Knights Templar Yolande, became the second wife of John I, Count of Dammartin.
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French nobleman
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John I, Count of Dreux was born in 1215.
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John I, Count of Dreux died in 1249 in Nicosia.
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John I, Count of Dreux was French.
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