Louis I (Louis) I de Blois-Chatillon ( fr. Louis I er de Châtillon, comte de Blois ; died August 26, 1346 , Crecy ) - French nobleman, comte de Blois (from 1342 ), Dunois and Fretaval, nephew of the King of France Philip VI .
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The son of Guy I de Chatillon , Count de Blois, and Marguerite de Valois (1295–1342), daughter of Carl Valois . His brother Charles (Charles) was the duke of Breton .
According to chronology, Louis was the second count of Blois, who bore this name - at the turn of the XII-XIII centuries the grandson of the French king Louis VII, the crusader Louis , owned the county - therefore the writing of "Louis II" sometimes occurs, but nevertheless it is often numbered "first".
In 1340, in Soissons, Louis married Jeanne de Beaumont (1323–1350), Countess Soissons , Dame de Chimes , daughter of Jean de Hainault, Senora de Beaumont, and Margarita de Conde de Soissons, Countess de Soissons. They had three children:
- Louis II (d. 1372)
- Jean II (d. 1381)
- Guy II (d. 1397)
Froissart reports that in 1339 Louis' father-in-de-Hénône’s father-in-law, serving the English king , burned Guise and Louis’s other possessions with 500 bats, despite pleas from his daughter, who was in the Giza fortress, not to do so.
Louis died in the battle of Crecy . Froissart describes his doom as follows:
"The count of Blois, nephew of the king of France, and the duke of Lorraine , his son-in-law, defended themselves gloriously with their troops, but were surrounded by English and Welsh troops and killed, despite all their prowess"
The sons of Louis and Jeanne one after another owned their vast areas.
In 1348, Jeanne married the margrave of Namur Guillaume , but in December 1350 she died from the plague .