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Count Dreux is in Counts of France.
In 1137 Robert "Great" Capet I Count Dreux (age 14) was created I Count Dreux.
In 1139 Robert "Great" Capet I Count Dreux (age 16) and Agnes Garlande Countess Dreux (age 22) were married. She by marriage Countess Dreux. He the son of Louis VI King of the Franks and Adelaide Savoy Queen Consort France.
In 1145 Robert "Great" Capet I Count Dreux (age 22) and Hawise Salisbury Countess Dreux (age 27) were married. She by marriage Countess Dreux. He the son of Louis VI King of the Franks and Adelaide Savoy Queen Consort France.
In 1152 Robert "Great" Capet I Count Dreux (age 29) and Agnes Baudemont Countess Dreux (age 22) were married. She by marriage Countess Dreux. He the son of Louis VI King of the Franks and Adelaide Savoy Queen Consort France.
In 1178 Robert Capet II Count Dreux (age 24) and Mahaut Burgundy Countess Dreux were married. She by marriage Countess Dreux. He the son of Robert "Great" Capet I Count Dreux (age 55) and Agnes Baudemont Countess Dreux (age 48).
After 1181 Robert Capet II Count Dreux (age 27) and Yolande Coucy Countess Dreux (age 17) were married. She by marriage Countess Dreux. He the son of Robert "Great" Capet I Count Dreux (age 58) and Agnes Baudemont Countess Dreux (age 51). They were third cousin once removed.
On 11th October 1188 Robert "Great" Capet I Count Dreux (age 65) died. His son Robert (age 34) succeeded II Count Dreux.
Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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In or before 1212 Robert Capet III Count Dreux (age 26) and Aénor de Saint-Valéry (age 19) were married. She by marriage Countess Dreux. He the son of Robert Capet II Count Dreux (age 57) and Yolande Coucy Countess Dreux (age 47). They were fourth cousin once removed.
On 28th December 1218 Robert Capet II Count Dreux (age 64) died. His son Robert (age 33) succeeded III Count Dreux.
In 1234 Robert Capet III Count Dreux (age 49) died. His son John (age 19) succeeded I Count Dreux.
In 1240 John Capet I Count Dreux (age 25) and Marie Dampierre Countess Dreux were married. She by marriage Countess Dreux. He the son of Robert Capet III Count Dreux and Aénor de Saint-Valéry (age 48).
In 1249 John Capet I Count Dreux (age 34) died. His son Robert succeeded IV Count Dreux.
In 1309 John "Good" Capet (age 44) died. His son Robert (age 16) succeeded V Count Dreux.
On 22nd March 1329 Robert Capet V Count Dreux (age 36) died. His brother John (age 34) succeeded III Count Dreux.
In 1331 John Capet III Count Dreux (age 36) died. His brother Peter (age 33) succeeded I Count Dreux.
On 3rd November 1345 Peter Capet I Count Dreux (age 47) died. His half sister Joan (age 36) succeeded I Countess Dreux.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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Robert Capet IV Count Dreux and Beatrice Montfort Countess Dreux were married. She by marriage Countess Dreux. He the son of John Capet I Count Dreux and Marie Dampierre Countess Dreux.