The Briennes_ The Rise and Fall of a Champenois Dynasty in the Age of the Crusades, C. 950-1356
2 Breakthrough and High Point (c. 1191–1237) The Briennes’breakthrough onto the international stage and rise to their high point ...
Briennes since the 1120s at the latest.^3 Until comparatively recently, it was often claimed that this brood of Brienne children ...
a young age, but the boy did not want that. So hefled to the care and protection of a relative–ironically, in a monastery–but th ...
Melun in April 1198, William was among those who stood surety for him.^12 Within a year or so, William may well have held the vi ...
of Lecce, an illegitimate member of the Norman royal family but, in a sense, the‘native’southern Italian candidate; and the man ...
of southern Italy, it is hard to see why he would have chosen Walter in particular. The Briennes were not yet the‘family of the ...
Innocent’s approval as thesine qua nonfor his forthcoming campaign to vindicate his and Elvira’s rights in southern Italy and Si ...
Innocent goes on: But if the count or his wife contravene in any way the oath that they have sworn, either by their own action o ...
he had been a child and too young to defend himself, the Church‘had sent enemies into Apulia in the guise of protectors...’^35 F ...
the house of Champagne ended up saddled with some of the debts that Walter incurred through his war in southern Italy. As late a ...
ministerialis, Dipold of Schweinspünt. Dipold’s county of Acerra had once belonged to Richard, the brother of Walter’s mother-in ...
struggle is suffused with the atmosphere of Holy War. Walter‘received a blessing and absolution’from the legate before proceedin ...
no signs of doing so.^62 Innocent had become extremely impatient by September 1202. To induce the count to launch an invasion, I ...
followed, it is unsurprising that various sources suggest that Walter had become overconfident, or even arrogant. TheGestaoffers ...
in southern Italy, amidst the wreckage of his father’s ambitions.^77 It would be easy to conclude that Walter III did not leave ...
his county was to pass to that cadet branch. Through his marriage to Queen Isabella I of Jerusalem, though, Henry had had two su ...
southern Italy, can only be described as meteoric. Walter of Montbéliard had quickly become a protégé of Aimery of Lusignan, kin ...
The‘Crusade of 1210– 11 ’proved notably less successful than had been expected. It marks the end of a run of small gains that th ...
refortify Mount Tabor, the supposed site of Christ’s transfiguration, ‘only seven leagues from Acre’.^82 This would become the i ...
politics–and, indeed, to maintain this position, even during his long absence from the kingdom–shows some of the latent strength ...
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