Philip I, Duke of Brabant

Philip I, Duke of Brabant, also known as Philip of Saint Pol (25 July 1404 – Leuven, 4 August 1430), was the younger son of Antoine, Duke of Brabant and Jeanne of Saint-Pol, and succeeded his brother John IV as Duke of Brabant in 1427.[1] He had already been given Saint-Pol and Ligny as an appanage on the death of his grandfather, Waleran III of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny, in 1415 at the Battle of Agincourt.

Philip I, Duke of Brabant
Philip I, Duke of Brabant
Count of Ligny and Saint-Pol
Reign	25 October 1415 – 4 August 1430
Predecessor	Waleran III
Successor	Joan
Duke of Brabant, Lothier and Limburg
Reign	1427 – 4 August 1430
Predecessor	John IV
Successor	Philip II
Born	25 July 1404
Died	4 August 1430 (aged 26) Leuven
Spouse	Yolande of Anjou
House	House of Valois-Burgundy
Father	Antoine, Duke of Brabant
Mother	Jeanne of Saint-Pol

He commanded the Burgundian forces occupying Paris in 1419, but he returned to Brabant in 1420, where the populace complained of his brother's misadministration. He was then declared ruwaard (regent) of Brabant. In 1421, he was reconciled with his brother and resigned the regency. The citizens were pacified by John's "Nieuw Regiment" in 1422.

During his own reign, Philip was forced to grant concessions to the nobility in 1428. Wary of the rise of his cousin and heir Philip the Good in the Hook and Cod wars, he sought a marital alliance with Louis II, Duke of Anjou, against Burgundy, marrying his daughter Yolande of Anjou.
Because this marriage produced no children, his death in 1430 placed Brabant in the hands of his cousin Philip the Good, the next heir, whilst Saint-Pol and Ligny went to his great-aunt, Joan of Luxembourg, by proximity of blood.[2] His wife Yolande was placed in the guardianship of Philip the Good, until she remarried in 1431 to Francis I, Duke of Brittany.

References

1. Willem Pieter Blockmans and Walter Prevenier, The Promised Lands: The Low Countries Under Burgundian Rule, 1369-1530, Transl. Elizabeth Fackelman, Ed. Edward Peters, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), 91.
2. Willem Pieter Blockmans and Walter Prevenier, The Promised Lands: The Low Countries Under Burgundian Rule, 1369-1530, 91.

Ancestors

Ancestors of Philip I, Duke of Brabant

16. Philip VI of France 8. John II of France 17. Joan the Lame 4. Philip the Bold 18. John I of Bohemia 9. Bonne of Bohemia 19. Elisabeth of Bohemia 2. Anthony, Duke of Brabant 20. Louis I of Flanders 10. Louis II of Flanders 21. Margaret I, Countess of Burgundy 5. Margaret III, Countess of Flanders 22. John III, Duke of Brabant 11. Margaret of Brabant 23. Marie d'Évreux 1. Philip I, Duke of Brabant 24. John I of Luxembourg, Lord of Ligny 12. Guy I of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny 25. Alix of Dampierre 6. Waleran III of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny 26. Jean de Châtillon-Saint-Pol 13. Mahaut of Châtillon 27. Jeanne de Fiennes 3. Jeanne of Saint-Pol 28. Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Holand 14. Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent 29. Maud la Zouche 7. Maud Holland 30. Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent 15. Joan of Kent 31. Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell