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Louis I of Nevers

Count of Nevers and Count of Rethel

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ1394448 ↗
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Louis I (1272 – 22 July 1322) was suo jure count of Nevers and jure uxoris count of Rethel.

Louis was a son of Count Robert III of Flanders, and Countess Yolande of Nevers. He succeeded his parents as Count of Nevers. In December 1290, he married Countess Joan of Rethel, and thus became her co-ruler in the County of Rethel. They had two children:

Joan of Flanders

Louis I, Count of Flanders, Nevers and Rethel

He died in Paris shortly before his father and thus never succeeded his father as Count of Flanders.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1272, 1322, 1290—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1272. The account is most persuasive where Louis, Nevers and Count can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as count of Nevers and Count of Rethel. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1394448. VIAF identifies the subject as 285788910. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1272, 1322 and 1290.

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This entry incorporates text from “Louis I of Nevers” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.