The Briennes_ The Rise and Fall of a Champenois Dynasty in the Age of the Crusades, C. 950-1356

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The Briennes The Briennes were a highly important aristocratic family who hailed from the Champagne region of north-eastern Fran ...

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The Briennes The Rise and Fall of a Champenois Dynasty in the Age of the Crusades, c. 950– 1356 Guy Perry ...

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Contents List of Figures pageviii List of Maps ix Acknowledgements x List of Abbreviations xii List of Genealogies xiv Introduct ...

Figures 1.1 The definitive arms of the house of Brienne, on the seal of Count Hugh (d. 1296). Taken from A. Roserot,Dictionnaire ...

Maps 1 The Briennes’ancestral heartland pagexv 2 Champagne xvi 3 Northern France xvi 4 Northern England and Scotland xvii 5 Ital ...

Acknowledgements In private, at least, I always referred to this book as‘the whole damn dynasty’. Having written a short work on ...

So much of my training, as a medievalist, was done at Oxford, and therefore I have a large number of people to thank there too. ...

Abbreviations BnF Bibliothèque nationale de France ‘Catalogue’‘Catalogue d’actes des comtes de Brienne, 950 – 1356 ’, compiled b ...

RHC Recueil des historiens des croisades(Paris, 1844 – 1906). RHGF Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France (Paris, 173 ...

Genealogies 1 The early Briennes,c. 950– 1191 pagexxi 2 The Briennes,c. 1191– 1267 xxii 3 The later Briennes,c. 1267– 1356 xxiii ...

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