Posthumous birth
Name Born Late parent Parent died Gap
Muhammad Prophet of Islam c. 571 Abdullah ibn Abdul-Muttalib 570 4 years
Robert I King of France 15 August 866 Robert the Strong 2 July 866 6 weeks
Charles III The Simple King of France 17 September 879 Louis the Stammerer 10 April 879 5 months
Lothair III Holy Roman Emperor 1075 Gebhard of Supplinburg 9 June 1075 ?
Valdemar I the Great King of Denmark 14 January 1131 Canute Lavard 7 January 1131 7 days
Constance I Queen of Sicily 2 November 1154 Roger II of Sicily 26 February 1154 8 months
Baldwin V King of Jerusalem August 1177 William of Montferrat , Count of Jaffa and Ascalon June 1177 2 months
Arthur I Duke of Brittany 29 March 1187 Geoffrey II , Duke of Brittany 19 August 1186 7 months
Maria of Montferrat Queen of Jerusalem Summer 1192 Conrad of Montferrat 28 April 1192 A few months
Theobald I King of Navarre 30 May 1201 Theobald III , Count of Champagne 24 May 1201 6 days
Raymond Nonnatus Catholic saint 1204 His mother 1204 -
Przemysł II King of Poland 14 October 1257 Przemysł I of Greater Poland 4 June 1257 4 months
John I King of France 15 November 1316 Louis X of France 5 June 1316 5 months
Isabel de Verdun , Baroness Ferrers of Groby English aristocrat 21 March 1317 Theobald de Verdun , 2nd Lord Verdun , Justiciar of Ireland 27 July 1316 8 months
John , 3rd Earl of Kent 7 April 1330 Edmund of Woodstock , 1st Earl of Kent 19 March 1330 19 days
William of Bavaria-Munich 1435 William III , Duke of Bavaria 12 September 1435 up to 3 months
Ladislaus the Posthumous King of Bohemia , Hungary , and Croatia , Duke of Austria 22 February 1440 King Albert II of Germany 27 October 1439 4 months
Henry VII King of England 28 January 1457 Edmund Tudor , 1st Earl of Richmond 1 or 3 November 1456 3 months
John Louis Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken 19 October 1472 Johann II of Nassau-Saarbrücken 15 July 1472 3 months
Mencía Pacheco Castilian noblewoman 1474-1475 Juan Pacheco 1 October 1474
Notable people born posthumously -- Middle Ages
A posthumous birth is the birth of a child after the death of a biological parent. A person born in these circumstances is called a posthumous child or a posthumously born person. Most instances of posthumous birth involve the birth of a child after the death of its father, but the term is also applied to infants delivered after the death of the mother, usually by caesarean section.