Earl John de Brittany I of Richmond 
John was born in 1216 in Nantes, Bretagne, France. John's father was Earl Piers de Braine of Richmond and his mother was Alix de Thouars. His paternal grandparents were Count Robert de Braine et Dreux II and Yolande de Coucy; his maternal grandparents were Viscount Guy de Thouars and Constance de Bretagne. He was an only child. He died at the age of 69 on October 8th, 1285 in Richmond Castle, North Ride Yorkshire, England. He was buried in Abbey Of Notre Dame de Prieres, France.General Notes
Duke Bretagne
Richmond, previous creations: Henry III granted the Richmond lands in 1240 to Piers, a younger son of the Count of Savoy, who accordingly became known as Earl of Richmond, though never formally invested as such. On his death the Earldom of Richmond, inasmuch as it had ever been his at all, reverted to the Crown. In 1268 Henry granted the Earldom of Richmond to Piers de Braine's son John, who forthwith made it over to his own son, another John. (These Johns, who were both known by the surname Bretagne rather than de Braine, may be regarded respectively as 2nd and 3rd Earls of Richmond of the January 1218/9 creation.) John the younger (ie. the 3rd Earl), who was temporarily deprived of his estates in England in 1296 for siding with the French, married a daughter of Henry III. He was killed by a wall falling on him in Lyons for the coronation of Pope Clement V in 1305. On his death Edward I asserted a right to the Earldom of Richmond, together with its castles and territories, but a year later conferred the title on the late Earl's second son John, who thus became 4th Earl of Richmond. Like his predecessors he too suffered temporary confiscation of his estates by the Crown, this time in 1326, though they were given back to him later that year, on 25 December approximately. [Burke's Peerage, p. 2402]
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EARLDOM OF RICHMOND (VI, 2)
JOHN DE BRETAGNE, DUKE OF BRITTANY, styled "Le Roux," 1st son and heir of Piers, DUKE OF BRITTANY and sometime EARL OF RICHMOND, by his 1st wife, Alice of Brittany, was born in 1216. He was styled John de Bretagne until he became Duke of Brittany on his father's resignation, when he did homage to the King of France in Paris, on or shortly before 16 November 1237. He received the ducal insignia, viz. the sword and banner, at Rennes a few days later. He was knighted by Louis IX on 8 September 1241 at Melun. On 10 April 1240 he ordered the expulsion of the Jews from Brittany. In 1242 and 1259 he petitioned Henry III for the restitution of the Earldom of Richmond. In 1254 he surrendered his right to the succession to the Kingdom of Navarre, which had been secured to him by his marriage contract, for an annuity of 3,000 livres. In 1268 Henry III restored the Earldom of Richmond to John, who immediately surrendered it to his son. In July 1270 he went on Crusade, and took part in the siege of Tunisby Louis IX. Like his father, he was involved in constant quarrels with the Breton bishops, and was excommunicated.
He married, 16 January 1235/6, at Château-Thierry, Blanche, daughter of Theobald, KING OF NAVARRE, COUNT OF CHAMPAGNE AND BRIE, by his 2nd wife, Agnes DE BEAUJEU. She died 12, and was buried 14 August 1283, in the abbey of Nôtre Dame de la Joie, near Hennebont. John died probably 8 October 1285, and was buried in the abbey of Nôtre Dame de Prières. [Complete Peerage X:809-11, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1052 in Reims, Champagne, France d.29 Jul 1108 in Melun, Isle De France, France
- b.~ 1081 in Paris, France d.01 Aug 1137 in Chãateau De Bâethizy, Paris, Isle De France, France
- b.~ 1054 in Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands d.1093/1094 in Montreuil-sur-Loire, , France
- b.~ 1123 in Reims, Champagne, France d.11 Oct 1184/1185 in Braine, Champagne, France
- b.~ 1062 in Savoy, France d.17 Oct 1103
- b.~ 1092 in Savoie d.18 Nov 1154
- b.~ 1060 in Bourgogne, France d.> 1133
- b.~ 1154 in Braine, Aisne, Picardy, France d.28 Dec 1218
- b.~ 1060 in France d.1130 in Braine-Sur-Vesle
- b.~ 1098 in France d.< 1144
- b.ABT 1060/1064 in Braine, France
- b.~ 1130 in France d.11 Jul 1218 in France
- b.~ 1100 in France
- b.1187/1190 in Braine, Aisne, Picardy, France d.~28 May 1250
- b.~ 1082 in Boves, Somme, France d.1131
- b.~ 1110 in Boves, Somme, France d.ABT 1148/1149 in Palestine
- b.~ 1087 in Crecyenponthieu, Somme, France d.> 1147
- b.~ 1139 in Boves, Somme, France d.01 Nov 1191 in Siege Of Acre, Palestine
- b.~ 1082 in Beaugency, Loiret, France d.1130
- b.~ 1112 in Beaugency, Loiret, France
- b.~ 1080 in Valois, France d.1130
- b.~ 1164 in Boves, France d.18 Mar 1222
- b.1087/1088 in Hainault, France d.1120
- b.1108 in Mons, Hainault, Belgium d.08 Nov 1171
- b.1089 in Wassenberg, Rheinland, Prussia
- b.~ 1141 in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium d.ABT 1168/1173
- b.1067/1073 in Namur, Namur, Belgium d.1139
- b.~ 1124 in Namur, Namur, Belgium d.Nov 1168
- b.1075/1080 in Trier, Rhineland, Germany d.24 Jun 1143
- b.1216 in Nantes, Bretagne, France d.08 Oct 1285 in Richmond Castle, North Ride Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1045 in Thouars, Deux-Sevres, France d.1123
- b.~ 1095 in Thouars, Deux-Sevres, France d.~ 1127
- b.1075 in Thouars, Deux-Sèvres, France d.< 1107
- b.~ 1120 in Thouars, Deux-Sevres, France d.1173
- b.22 Oct 1071 in Aquitaine, France d.10 Feb 1126 in France
- b.ABT 1096/1100 in Aquitaine, France d.1147 in Aragon, Spain
- b.~ 1073 in France d.28 Nov 1117/1118 in Anjou, France
- b.~ 1157 in Thouars, Anjou, France d.24 Nov 1225 in Villeneuve, Charente-Martime, France
- b.~ 1039 in Lusignan, Vienne, France d.1110
- b.ABT 1065/1090 in Lusignan, Vienne, France d.>02 Feb 1151
- b.1041 in Thouars, Deux-Sevres, France
- b.~ 1119 in Lusignan, Vienne, Poitou, France
- b.~ 1095 in Lusignan, Vienne, Poitou Charentes, France d.1144
- b.~ 1195 in Thouars, Anjou, France d.21 Oct 1221 in Convent Of Cordeliers, Nantes, France
- b.ABT 1064/1065 in Penthievre, Morbihan, Bretagne, France d.1135 in St Marys, York, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1095 in Brittany, France d.15 Sep 1146
- b.ABT 1064/1072 in Brittany, France d.21 Feb 1133/1134 in Richmond upon Thames, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 1140 in Bretagne, France d.20 Feb 1170/1171 in Bretagne, France
- b.1096 in Bretagne, Indre, France d.17 Sep 1148
- b.~ 1122 in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Anjou/Pays de La Loire, France d.< 1167 in Richmond, Yorkshire, England
- b.ABT 1086/1091 in England
- b.12 Jun 1166 in Bretagne, France d.31 Aug 1201 in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France
- b.~ 1084 d.24 May 1153 in Carlisle
- b.ABT 1114/1119 in Scotland d.12 Jun 1152 in Scotland
- b.1072/1080 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England d.23 Apr 1131 in Scone, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.1144/1154 in Northumberland, Northumberland, England d.1201 in Richmond, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1065 in Sussex, England d.11 May 1138 in England
- b.~ 1104 in Huntingdon, England d.1178
- b.~ 1085 in Valois, France d.13 Feb 1131 in England
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Children
Duke Jean II of Bretagne
Jean was born on January 4th, 1238 in Rennes, Ille-Et-Vilaine, France. He died at the age of 67 on November 18th, 1305 in Lyons, Rhone, France.
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