ID: I16985
Name: *Robert III of DREUX
Sex: M
Birth: ABT 1185 in Dreux, Eure-Et-Loire, France 1
Death: 1234 1
Occupation: BET 1218 AND 1234 Count of Dreux and Braine 1
Note:
Robert III of Dreux (1185–1234), Count of Dreux and Braine, was the son of Robert III, Count of Dreux, and Yolanda de Coucy. He was given the byname Gasteblé (lit. wheat-spoiler) when he destroyed a field of wheat while hunting in his youth.

Along with his brother Peter, Duke of Brittany he fought with future Louis VIII of France in 1212 at Nantes and was captured there during a sortie. Exchanged after the Battle of Bouvines for William Longsword, Earl of Salisbury, he fought in the Albigensian Crusade, besieging Avignon in 1226. He was a supporter of Blanche of Castile during her regency after the death of Louis VIII in 1226.

In 1210 he married Aénor of Saint-Valéry (1192–1250) and they had several children, including Yolande (1212–1248), who married Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, John I (1215–1249), later Count of Dreux, Robert (1217–1264), Viscount of Châteaudun, and Peter (1220–1250), a cleric.
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Father: *Robert II of DREUX b: 1154 in Dreux, Eure-Et-Loire, France
Mother: Yolande DE COUCY b: 1164

Marriage 1 Aénor of SAINT VALÉRY b: 1192
Children
*Yolande of DREUX b: 1212 in Dreux, Eure Loire, France
*John I of DREUX b: 1215 in Dreux, Eure Loire, France
*Robert of DREUX b: 1217 in Dreux, Eure Loire, France
Peter of DREUX b: 1220 in Dreux, Eure Loire, France

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