Robert of Wavrin, lord of Saint-Venant (d. 1370)

A distant cousin of Robert IV, Robert V and Robert VI of Wavrin, from a junior branch of the family. He was a squire in 1326, but by 1330 he had been knighted. The count of Flanders made him honorary falconer of Flanders in 1334 and hereditary seneschal of Flanders in 1336. He was marshal of France in 1342, 1345, 1346 and 1358. He went to England as a hostage for the execution of the Treaty of Brétigny. He died around 1370.

Bibliographic References:

F[éli]x B[rassart], ‘Une vieille généalogie de la maison de Wavrin. Les sénéchaux et les connétables de Flandre’, Souvenirs de la Flandre wallone. Recherches historiques et choix de documents relatifs à Douai et aux anciennes provinces du Nord de la France, 16 (1876), 27–178 (p. 76–80); Maurice Vandermaesen, De besluitvorming in het graafschap Vlaanderen tijdens de veertiende eeuw: bijdrage tot een politieke sociologie van de Raad en van de raadsheren achter de figur van Lodewijk II van Nevers (1322–1346), Bronnen en bijdragen tot de Vlaamse geschiedvorsching (: Genootschap voor geschiedenis “Société d’Émulation” te Brugge, 1999), I, pp. 590–91.

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