Born in Paris, Robert was born either in 1296 or 1297. He was the youngest child of Philip IV of France and his wife Joan, the reigning Queen of Navarre. In 1306, at the age of ten, he was betrothed to
Constance of Sicily, daughter of
Frederick III of Sicily and
Eleanor of Anjou. However, Robert died in 1308, and the marriage alliance was abandoned. Constance would later go on to become
Queen of Cyprus as the wife of
Henry II of Cyprus. ==Ancestry==