The Briennes_ The Rise and Fall of a Champenois Dynasty in the Age of the Crusades, C. 950-1356
siege as well. Latin Constantinople had survived: as it proved, for another generation.^175 John swiftly dispatched his new son- ...
across the Golden Horn in Galata. However, it is possible that, at a rather later date, plans were laid to transfer his remains ...
3 In the Pages of Joinville (c. 1237–1267) John of Joinville’sThe Life of Saint Louisis arguably the great French chronicle of t ...
In short, the Briennes had become a highly important dynasty by the mid-thirteenth century. However, there were so many of them, ...
is correct, King Louis had asked John of Beaumont, chamberlain of France, to provide a galley to serve as a landing craft for Er ...
This chapter begins, then, on a rather muted note, with the effective extinction of the Ramerupt cadet branch–part of the human ...
‘Minstrel of Reims’, and they have been taken at face value rather too often.^17 Yet Blanche and her son, the French king Louis ...
bear, he let it loose amongst Joinville’s chickens, and it killed a dozen before it was driven off by a serving woman.^24 This s ...
classic example of the‘Anglo-French’baronage that was so character- istic of the period.^29 Although they produced an important ...
As Wolff has rightly noted,‘the inference is strong that, in Castile, these three were amongst the most prominent courtiers of [ ...
John of Brittany, who sailed with the prince, not John of Brienne.^39 By then, of course, the burning issue in English politics ...
The Fate of the Latin Empire In many ways, though, the most revealing point about the Brienne brothers is that they never return ...
and his family alone, as scions of a cadet branch of the royal house of France. It could not simply be bartered away. Baldwin wa ...
piece of vair. I also sent some tiretaine andcendalto line the dress. My lord Philip of Nanteuil...who was in the king’s entoura ...
Holland (whose power was, in fact, largely confined to the Low Countries), and Charles of Anjou, younger brother of Louis IX. Wh ...
expense, and so the obvious solution was to sell it. Within a few years, Baldwin II had approved the sale of Namur, and of all h ...
the empress of Constantinople came to the Iberian peninsula to plead for help for her husband (not her son), who had been captur ...
clearly sited on the island. It was led not so much by the young king of Cyprus, Henry I, but by the regent, John of Ibelin, who ...
There is a certain irony in the fact that, by the time that Walter actually arrived in the Latin East, the war against the Hohen ...
As the effective lord of Jaffa, Walter was a keyfigure in the politics of the kingdom of Jerusalem in the late 1230s and early 1 ...
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