The Briennes_ The Rise and Fall of a Champenois Dynasty in the Age of the Crusades, C. 950-1356
This could well have contributed to Andrew, Bohemund and Hugh’s decision to quit the crusade after only a few months, in January ...
control of the city not only to boost his prestige, but also to reassert his claim to the crusade’s leadership (at least, for th ...
his majority at the age of twenty-one, then this would have been in around late 1226–and we know that Walter consistently styled ...
The Notorious Erard of Ramerupt Erard, the eldest surviving son and heir of Andrew of Ramerupt, was still very young–perhaps aro ...
kin, the family of Rethel, who owned the‘other half’of Ramerupt.^113 Erard and Helisende had at least threechildren. Their fates ...
claim that county, which he regarded as her rightful inheritance (despite the inconvenient fact that she was the younger sister) ...
thefiefs that he held from her within Champagne.^125 This could have been highly alarming for John, the distant king of Jerusale ...
the hustle and bustle of preparations for the Fourth Lateran Council that facilitated his escape from their clutches.^129 The Fr ...
Bishop William of Langres, who soon became lynchpins of the rebel cause.^133 These two were not the only disaffected‘Brienne kin ...
and to the merchants involved. The rebels were past listening to such strictures, however, and so the cycle of short, sharp outb ...
out to Egypt to take part in the Fifth Crusade–an enterprise headed, of course, by another Brienne, King John.^140 The truces of ...
worth noting that unseemly wrangling over the rent continued until 1227.^143 At around the same time, though, Erard bought the‘o ...
The Lure of Constantinople The‘Erard of Brienne affair’was fresh in the mind–indeed, it cast something of a shadow–when King Joh ...
conference, at which Frederick swore to depart by 15 August 1227. As a clear sign of his commitment to the enterprise, the emper ...
that John was still the rightful king of Jerusalem. Henceforth, for almost six years, the papacy continued toaccord the title to ...
war, a sort of‘semi-crusade’against the excommunicate emperor, has colourfully been labelled the‘War of the Keys’, on account of ...
advance of Frederick’s subordinate, Duke Rainald of Spoleto, who had opened the war proper by invading the Papal State. Although ...
Rainald’s withdrawal. The duke withdrew to the fastness of Sulmona, which was besieged by John and Colonna. However, the Church’ ...
quickly. It was sealed at Perugia on 9 April 1229, during the War of the Keys. John was to be sole emperor for life, but Baldwin ...
The‘war of the three Johns’–or, to put it another way, the assault and siege of Constantinople in 1235– 6 – was the defining eve ...
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