Career
The teenage Louis inherited the duchy from his father Duke Peter I after his death in the Battle of Poitiers in 1356. Catherine of Bourbon (b 1378), daughter young
John of Bourbon (1381–1434), Duke of Bourbon
Louis of Bourbon (1388 – 1404), Sieur de Beaujeu
Isabelle of Bourbon (1384 – aft 1451)
In 1390, Duke Louis launched the Barbary Crusade against the Hafsids of Tunis, in conjunction with the Genoese. Its objective was to suppress piracy based in the city of Mahdia, but the siege was unsuccessful.
Duke Louis died at Montlucon in 1410, at the age of 72 or 73.