The Count of Flanders had denied Philip's right to declare war on England while King John was still excommunicated, and that his disobedience needed to be punished.

Initially agreement had been reached for him to marry Margaret of Geneva, daughter of William I, Count of Geneva, but the young bride's journey to Paris was interrupted by Thomas I of Savoy, who kidnapped Philip's intended new queen and married her instead, claiming that Philip was already bound in marriage.

He constructed an alliance against Philip, including Baldwin IX of Flanders, Renaud, Count of Boulogne, and his father-in-law King Sancho VI of Navarre, who raided Philip's lands from the south.

Turning to the west, in 1281 he compelled Count Philip I of Savoy to cede some territory to him, then forced the citizens of Bern to pay the tribute that they had been refusing, and in 1289 marched against Count Philip's successor, Otto IV, compelling him to do homage.

For example, the double marriage in 1385 at Cambrai of his son, John the Fearless, and his daughter, Marguerite, to Margaret of Bavaria and William of Bavaria, son and daughter of Albert, Count of the neighbouring Hainault and Holland, prepared the later union of Hainault and Holland with Burgundy and Flanders, as carried out by Philip's grandson, Philip the Good ; the marriages also inserted the new Valois Burgundy dynasty into the Wittelsbach network of alliances: the other daughters of Count Albert had married William I, Duke of Guelders and Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia ; their cousin, Isabeau of Bavaria, had married Charles VI of France, and become Queen of France.

He granted Aragon to Charles, Count of Valois, Philip's son.

Count Philip's wife, Elisabeth, died in 1183, prompting King Philip II to seize the province of Vermandois on behalf of Elisabeth's sister, Eleonore.

May 6, 1432 ), Count of Charolais ; Charles ( 1433 – 1477 ), Count of Charolais and Philip's successor as Duke, called " Charles the Bold " or " Charles the Rash "

Because there was no single heir to all his possessions, they were divided up once more amongst the families from which they had descended to Philip: King John II of France, grandson of Duke Robert II of Burgundy ( Philip's great-grandfather ), and also Philip's stepfather, inherited the Duchy of Burgundy as one of its most direct heirs ; Countess Margaret I of Artois, daughter of Countess Joan II of Burgundy ( Philip's great-grandmother ), and grandmother of Philip's wife, inherited the Counties of Burgundy and Artois as their direct heiress ; and John of Boulogne, son of Count Robert VII of Boulogne ( Philip's great-grandfather ), inherited Auvergne and Boulogne as their direct heir.

With the assassination of Louis, France broke down into two parties: the Armagnacs of Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, the tutor of the young Charles of Orléans, and the Burgundians of John the Fearless, Philip's successor, who supported Charles of Lorraine.

The Florentine-Neapolitan army was badly beaten at the Battle of Montecatini on 29 August 1315 ; Philip's younger brother Peter, Count of Gravina and his son Charles of Taranto were both killed.

In around 1390, the Carmelite Monastery of Our Lady of Abensberg was founded by Count John II and his wife, Agnes.

Afonso's first wife was Matilda II, Countess of Boulogne, daughter of Renaud, Count of Dammartin, and Ida, Countess of Boulogne.

She was a daughter of Count Amadeus V, Count of Savoy and his second wife Maria of Brabant.

Meanwhile, the Count has plans of his own — as a birthday present to his wife, the pair will attend the party uninvited.

Louis became involved in a war with Count Theobald of Champagne by permitting Raoul I, Count of Vermandois and seneschal of France, to repudiate his wife Eléonore of Blois, Theobald's sister, and to marry Petronilla of Aquitaine, Eleanor's sister.

Eleanor and Henry were cousins to the third degree through their common ancestor, Ermengarde of Anjou ( wife to Robert I, Duke of Burgundy and Geoffrey, Count of Gâtinais ); they were also both descendants of Robert II of France.

When his wife Queen Mary fell ill in 1558, King Philip sent the Count of Feria to consult with Elizabeth.

The daughter of Count Berthold IV of Andechs and his second wife Agnes of Wettin, she was born at Andechs Castle in the Duchy of Bavaria.

Count Morphy was highly praising of Albéniz, and Albéniz would later dedicate Sevilla to Morphy's wife when he premiered it in Paris in January 1886.

By his wife, the countess Katinka Kendeffy, whom he married in Paris in 1856, Count Andrássy left two sons, and one daughter, Ilona ( b. 1858 ).

According to a very common legend, Count Andrássy had a long lasting romance with Queen Elisabeth ( Sissy ), wife of Emperor and King Franz-Josef of Austria-Hungary, and fathered their only son, Archduke Rudolf.

She was the daughter of Bolesław III Wrymouth, Duke of Poland, by his second wife Salomea, daughter of Henry, Count of Berg.

* Rotrude ( b. 800 ), married Gerard, Count of Auvergne, as his first wife

* Hildegard ( or Matilda ) ( b. c. 802 ), married Gerard, Count of Auvergne, as his second wife

* 1590 – Carlo Gesualdo, composer, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, murders his wife, Donna Maria d ' Avalos, and her lover Fabrizio Carafa, the Duke of Andria at the Palazzo San Severo in Naples.

Laura may have been Laura de Noves, the wife of Count Hugues de Sade ( an ancestor of the Marquis de Sade ).

Practically nothing is recorded of Pope Anastasius III, his pontificate falling in the period when Rome and the Papacy were in the power of Theophylact, Count of Tusculum, and his wife Theodora, who approved Anastasius III's candidacy.

Born in Hornburg, Lower Saxony, Germany, he was the son of Count Konrad of Morsleben and Hornburg and his wife Amulrad.

Paavo's maternal grandparents were Jaakko Antero Ingman / Iisalo ( a distant relative of Count Adolf Fredrik Munck af Fulkila and Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim ) and his wife Siiri Törnroos.

One sister, Gisela, was married to Humbert II, Count of Savoy, and then to Renier I of Montferrat ; another sister, Maud, was the wife of Eudes I of Burgundy.

Charles was Count of Provence by right of his wife, maintaining a rich base for projecting what would be an expensive Italian war.

He was King of England from 1135 to his death, and also the Count of Boulogne in right of his wife.

They included Robert's uncle, Robert the archbishop of Rouen, who had originally opposed the duke, Osbern, a nephew of Gunnor the wife of Duke Richard I, and Count Gilbert of Brionne, a grandson of Richard I.

# Elisabeth ( 8 April 1474, Ansbach – 25 April 1507, Römhild ), married Count Hermann VIII of Henneberg-Aschach ( 1470 – 1535 )

* Prince Charles, Count of Flanders ( 1903 – 1983 ), former Belgian regent, second son of Albert I, King of the Belgians and Duchess Elisabeth

Under the ownership of Count Antoon de Lalaing ( 1480 – 1540 ) and his wife, Countess Elisabeth van Culemborg ( 1475 – 1555 ), the ‘ Land van Hoogstraten ’ became a county, a title bestowed by Margaretha of Austria.

Conrad's widow Elisabeth married secondly Meinhard II, Count of Tirol, who in 1286 became Duke of Carinthia.

He married the singer Lucia Elisabeth Münchhausen ( 1728 – 1803 ) in 1755 and the Count stood as godfather to his son Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach.

The Belgian royal court considered Elisabeth as a possible bride for Prince Albert, heir-presumptive to the throne of Belgium ; but King Leopold II violently disapproved of her mother's recent morganatic marriage to Count Lonyay, and he refused to give Albert his permission.

Floris V was the son of Count William II of Holland and Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

Prince Paul of Yugoslavia was the only son of Prince Arsen ( brother of King Peter I ) and Princess and Countess Aurora Pavlovna Demidova ( a granddaughter of the Finnish philanthropist Aurora Karamzin and her Russian husband Prince and Count Pavel Nikolaievich Demidov, and Russian Prince Peter Troubetskoy and his wife Elisabeth Esperovna, née Princess Belosselsky-Belozersky ).

William was born in Dillenburg as the younger son of Count John V of Nassau-Dillenburg and Landgravine Elisabeth, daughter of Landgrave Henry III of Hesse-Marburg and Anna of Katzenelnbogen He was the brother of count Henry III of Nassau-Breda and the father of William I of Orange.

# Elisabeth ( 25 September 1542 – 18 November 1603 ), married 16 June 1559 to Count Conrad of Solms-Braunfels

His first wife, Countess Elisabeth von Thun was a sister in law of Count Carl von Lichnowsky.

* Elisabeth ( d. before 2 February 1306 ), ( 1 ) ∞ in 1250 Count John I of Schauenburg and Holstein-Kiel, ( 2 ) ∞ in 1265 Count Conrad I of Brehna

* Archduke Ferdinand of Austria ( HI & RH, 1918-2004 ), married to Countess Helene ( 1937-), only daughter of HIllH Carl Theodor, Count zu Toerring-Jettenbach and HRH Princess Elisabeth of Greece and Denmark ( a sister of Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent )

* Jeanne Sophie Elisabeth Septimanie de Vignerot du Plessis ( 1 March 1740 – 14 October 1773 ) married Don Casimir Pignatelli, Count of Egmond, Duke of Bisaccia ; no issue.

# Elisabeth ( d. after 30 October 1308 ), married in 1299 to Count Albert II of Gorizia.

****** Elisabeth Gfin Stauffenberg ( born 13. Jun. 1939 ) ∞ Count Piero Roberti ( born 26. Dec. 1935 )

* Elisabeth, Countess of Vermandois also known as Isabelle Mabile ( 1143 – 28 March 1183 ), married Philip, Count of Flanders.

# Johannette Elisabeth ( 13 February 1593 – 13 September 1654 ), married on 16 December 1616 to Count Conrad Gumprecht of Bentheim-Limburg.

He was the second son of Count John VI of Nassau-Dillenburg and his wife Elisabeth of Leuchtenberg.

# Elisabeth ( 8 November 1584 – 26 July 1661 ), married on 26 July 1604 to Count Christian of Waldeck

# Elisabeth Juliane ( 1 May 1620 – 13 May 1665 ), married in 1647 to Count Bernhard of Sayn-Wittgenstein