The Briennes_ The Rise and Fall of a Champenois Dynasty in the Age of the Crusades, C. 950-1356
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1 The early Briennes, c. 950 -^1191 ...
2 The Briennes, c. 1191 -^1267 ...
3 The later Briennes, c. 1267 -^1356 ...
4 The Champenois succession in the early thirteenth century ...
5 The French crown, the house of Anjou and the Briennes ...
6 The rival houses of Brienne and Antioch-Lusignan in the 1260s ...
Introduction The keynote of the central Middle Ages is expansion, in so many differ- ent ways.^1 However, in order to comprehend ...
extent to which aristocratic ambitions shaped the parameters of the emerging European state system, rather than the other way ar ...
The Briennes have long been acknowledged as ‘une des grandes familles de la feodalité française’.^7 Their greatness lies not so ...
The others are brought in, as and when necessary, merely to enrichen the main narrative. What this means, in practice, is that a ...
marks thefirst attempt at a complete study that examinesallof the branches of the dynasty, and not just the senior line.^13 Howe ...
fundamental change’.^16 Nicholas Paul has taken up this idea and sought to develop it. From the‘conjugal unit’, Paul argues,‘lin ...
It is also worth stressing that this book is only concerned with the Brienne dynasty itself. Large numbers of people bore the na ...
toponym, since the weight of evidencestronglysuggeststhathewasnot amemberoftheBriennefamily.^24 Although the broad outlines of t ...
far more accurately, as and when they encounter them. Indeed, drawing on their own specific areas of proficiency, such experts m ...
1 ‘Between Bar-sur-Aube and Rosnay’ (c. 950–1191) If there is one aspect of the history of the Briennes that cries out for furth ...
Despite all this, the Briennes’debut in our sources is quite clear. A charter shows that, in 950 or 951, a certain Engelbert was ...
between the Briennes and the emergent house of Joinville. In various ways, the two dynasties provide a pertinent counterpoint to ...
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