Assorted rogues - Person Sheet
Assorted rogues - Person Sheet
FatherEtienne Boileau (ca1200-ca1269)
Notes for Robert Boileau
13Robert Boileau son of Etienne, accompanied Louis IX on his expedition to the Crusades in 1270, and perished at the siege of Tunis.
15[BBB]: According to '1754', Etienne's son Robert took the Cross, and went with St Louis on the Crusade to the Holy Land, dying there in 1270. In fact, this, the eighth and last Crusade, went only as far as Tunis in North Africa. The army was decimated by disease, among the victims being the King himself; and it is said that he was shriven on his deathbed by a priest named Geoffroi Boileau.
Nothing else is known of Robert or of his children. No connection between him and Jean, the next in order, is stated either in '1754' or in the pedigree produced by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, the poet, when he was called upon to prove his nobility.
15[BBB]: According to '1754', Etienne's son Robert took the Cross, and went with St Louis on the Crusade to the Holy Land, dying there in 1270. In fact, this, the eighth and last Crusade, went only as far as Tunis in North Africa. The army was decimated by disease, among the victims being the King himself; and it is said that he was shriven on his deathbed by a priest named Geoffroi Boileau.
Nothing else is known of Robert or of his children. No connection between him and Jean, the next in order, is stated either in '1754' or in the pedigree produced by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, the poet, when he was called upon to prove his nobility.