Robert III of Artois (d. 1342)

Son of Philip of Artois and Blanche of Brittany. He married Jeanne, daughter of Charles I of Valois, half-sister of the French king, Philip VI of Valois. He died on 20 November 1342 at the siege of Vannes. His body was brought to London for burial in the church of the Dominicans.

For his children, see John, Charles.

Bibliographic References:

E. Déprez, ‘La mort de Robert d’Artois’, Revue historique, 94 (1907), 63–66; Dana L. Sample, +, ‘Philip VI’s mortal enemy: Robert of Artois and the beginnings of the Hundred Years War’, in The Hundred Years War (part II): different vistas, ed. by L. J. Andrew Villalon and Donald J. Kagay (Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2008), pp. 261–84.

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