Robert, Count of Clermont

Robert, Count of Clermont

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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

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Robert, Count of Clermont, was a French prince and military leader. He was the son of Louis IX and Margaret of Provence. He was the grandson of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile. He was the great-grandson of Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine. He was the great-great-grandson of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. He was the great-great-great-grandson of William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders. He was the great-great-great-great-grandson of Rollo of Normandy and Gisla of France. Robert, Count of Clermont, is most famous for his military leadership in the Seventh Crusade and his participation in the Albigensian Crusade.