Philip I de Croÿ was Seigneur de Croÿ and Count of Porcéan.

Philip I belonged to the powerful House of Croÿ

House of Croÿ

The House of Croÿ is an international family of European mediatized nobility which held a seat in the Imperial Diet from 1486, and was elevated to the rank of Imperial Princes in 1594...

. He was the eldest surviving son of Antoine de Croy, Comte de Porcéan and Margaret of Lorraine-Vaudémont.


Philippe I de Croÿ was raised together with Charles the Bold, who arranged Philippe's marriage to Jacqueline of Luxembourg in 1455. The bride's father, Louis de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol

Louis de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol

Louis de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol, of Brienne, de Ligny, and Conversano belonged to the Ligny branch of the House of Luxemburg and was Constable of France....

, was extremely against the alliance and attempted to win his daughter back by force, but the Count of Porcéan closed the borders of Luxembourg and announced that the marriage had been consummated.

He was also Governor of Luxembourg

Luxembourg

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 and Ligny

Ligny

Ligny is a village in the municipality of Sombreffe . It is known as the site of the Battle of Ligny, when Napoleon defeated Blücher two days before the battle of Waterloo while Wellington and Marshal Ney were engaged at Quatre Bras...

.

In 1471 Philippe defected to the King of France with 600 knights but returned to Burgundy

Duchy of Burgundy

The Duchy of Burgundy , was heir to an ancient and prestigious reputation and a large division of the lands of the Second Kingdom of Burgundy and in its own right was one of the geographically larger ducal territories in the emergence of Early Modern Europe from Medieval Europe.Even in that...

 to fight for Charles during the Battle of Nancy

Battle of Nancy

The Battle of Nancy was the final and decisive battle of the Burgundian Wars, fought outside the walls of Nancy on 5 January 1477 between Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, and René II, Duke of Lorraine...

. During the battle he was taken prisoner. Following Charles's death, Philippe de Croÿ helped arrange the betrothal of his heiress Marie

Mary of Burgundy

Mary of Burgundy ruled the Burgundian territories in Low Countries and was suo jure Duchess of Burgundy from 1477 until her death...

 with Emperor Maximilian I.

Towards the end of his life, he was employed by the Emperor as Governor of Valenciennes

Valenciennes

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, Lieutenant General of Liege, and Captain General of Hainaut

County of Hainaut

The County of Hainaut was a historical region in the Low Countries with its capital at Mons . In English sources it is often given the archaic spelling Hainault....

. Philippe commissioned a remarkable church in Château-Porcien

Château-Porcien

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, in which he was buried upon his death in 1511.

Children

Philippe I de Croÿ and Jacqueline of Luxembourg had three children :

• Henry de Croÿ (died 1514), married Charlotte de Chateaubriand (died 1509) and had issue
  • Philippe II, Duke of Aarschot
    Philippe II de Croÿ
    Philip II de Croÿ was Seigneur de Croÿ, Count of Porcéan and first Duke of Aarschot.Philip I belonged to the powerful House of Croÿ...
    
     (1496–1549)
  • William de Croÿ (archbishop)
    William de Croÿ (archbishop)
    William de Croÿ was Archbishop of Toledo from 1517–1521...
    
     (1497–1521)
• Antoine de Croÿ, Bishop of Thérouanne, died on 21 September 1496 in Cyprus
  Cyprus
  Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...
  
   and lies buried there.
• Guillaume de Croÿ
  William de Croÿ
  William II de Croÿ, Lord of Chièvres , later Duke of Sora and Arce, Baron of Roccaguglielma William II de Croÿ, Lord of Chièvres (1458 – 28 May 1521) (also known as: Guillaume II de Croÿ, sieur de Chièvres in French; Guillermo II de Croÿ, señor de Chièvres, Xevres or Xebres in Spanish;...
  
   (1458–1521), chief tutor of the infant Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
  Charles V was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and, as Charles I, of the Spanish Empire from 1516 until his voluntary retirement and abdication in favor of his younger brother Ferdinand I and his son Philip II in 1556.As...
  
  , no issue

Sources

• genealogy