The Briennes_ The Rise and Fall of a Champenois Dynasty in the Age of the Crusades, C. 950-1356
The Briennois Context The‘Colbert-Fontainebleau continuation’of William of Tyre’sHistory notes, helpfully, that the county of Br ...
worth more than 100l.per annum.^16 This, then, can help to confirm what can certainly be deduced from a variety of sources. The ...
A celebrated family followed this particular course: the Villehardouins. In many ways, as we shall see, they provide the most ob ...
Brienne agglomeration in the heart of the Champagne region, which posed a significant challenge to the nearby house of Blois–a d ...
Ramerupt’s fate looks rather like the reverse of what happened to Bar-sur-Seine. Walter II inherited the county of Brienne from ...
reading and dialectical applications’.^36 Ramerupt played a quite remark- ably prominent part in all this. Luminaries associated ...
Baudements, Chacenays, Joinvilles, Noyers and Traînels.^40 It has been suggested that the Conflans were also a cadet branch of t ...
taking place in or around the early thirteenth century. It is surely not an accident that the device became settled in this way ...
branches of Bar-sur-Seine and Ramerupt. Yet what little there is can serve a useful purpose. It can challenge the notion that th ...
events that followed Erard’s accession, and so the following account should certainly be treated with caution. After Walter’s de ...
However, there are many signs of the two dynasties co-operating, above all in the religious sphere.^57 All of this suggests that ...
Piety and Plunder Much of the Briennes’relationship with the Church remains clouded in mystery. Tantalising details emerge, here ...
at Boulancourt, not far from Brienne.^68 This may have whetted Erard’s appetite to act more individually, although he could also ...
assured, though, that his son and heir, Erard II, was also committed to supporting the monastery.^75 Despite the house of Bar-su ...
Along with Andrew of Ramerupt, John was often at Erard’s court and witnessed charters for him quite frequently.^81 Whilst monast ...
increasingly rapacious lordship caused most problems, though, with the Cistercian house of Larrivour. The Briennes had been bene ...
some notorious act of depredation against a religious community. We have already noted the most memorable examples, from Walter ...
(‘Henricus de Brena’) suddenly appears in a charter issued in the king- dom of Jerusalem in 1119.^100 Could this Henry be a knig ...
knight die, nor any who came to the rescue of so many.’^106 The principal reason for all this adulation is to be found in the de ...
In short, it is possible to argue that the Briennes’rise really started here, when the leading members of the family perished fo ...
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