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Rudolph (
1320 –
August 26,
1346 in the
Battle of Crécy), called
the Valiant (
le Vaillant), was the
duke of Lorraine from
1329 to his death. He was the son and successor of
Frederick IV and Elisabeth, daughter of
Albert I of Germany, a
Habsburg, whence his name. Though he was but nine years of age when his father died and he succeeded to the duchy under the
regency of his mother (until
1334), he was a warrior prince, taking part in four separate wars in
Lorraine,
France,
Brittany, and
Iberia.
In
1337, Count
Henry IV of Bar refused to do homage for a few seignories he held of the duke. Rudolph was forced to devastate
Pont-à-Mousson and its environs. In a series of reprisals, Henry ravaged the west of Lorraine and Rudolph attacked the
Barrois. Only by the intervention of
Philip VI of France was the war ended. By that time, the ties of Lorraine to France had become very strong. They were to become stronger under the half-Habsburg Rudolph. His second marriage was to the daughter of a French lord,
Guy I of Blois, and niece of the king of France. He also assisted Philip with troops to lift
Edward III of England's
Siege of Tournai in the opening phase of the
Hundred Years' War.
During a brief Anglo-French peace, he journeyed to the Iberian Peninsula to aid
Alfonso XI of Castile in the
Reconquista. He battled the
Moors of
Granada and shone in the
Battle of Gibraltar on
3 November 1340.
On his return to France, he came to the aid of his French brother-in-law,
Charles of Blois, in the
War of the Breton Succession. He returned to Philip's side at the
Battle of Crécy and was killed there, along with many illustrious French cavaliers, on
25 August 1346.
His first wife was Eleanor (
Aliénor), daughter of
Edward I of Bar, and Mary of Burgundy. Their marriage took place at Pont-à-Mousson in 1329, but they'd no children before Eleanor's death in
1332. He remarried to Mary (
1323-
1380), daughter of the aforementioned Guy and Margaret of
Valois, the sister of King Philip. They had three children:
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