The Briennes_ The Rise and Fall of a Champenois Dynasty in the Age of the Crusades, C. 950-1356
demonstrated by the events that followed. In late 1239, the crusaders moved south to Walter’s own town of Jaffa, which they used ...
La Forbie, not far from Gaza. It was indeed a‘second Hattin’, compar- able to thefirst in terms of the losses sustained.^90 As J ...
‘because all our menfled shamefully’; it was not his fault, in other words. He was hung from a gibbet outside his own town of Ja ...
Through his marriage to Mary of Lusignan, Walter had three sons, and their names are particularly revealing. The eldest was call ...
argued that this was at the expense of the family’s prospects in the Latin East. All of this was a consequence of the death of t ...
arranged by John’s leading kinswoman in the West, the Empress Mary of Constantinople.^109 We may guess that the empress had met ...
correct, since the notion of Catherine’s connection with Cyprus did not takefirm root until rather later.^118 Lillich is on much ...
error. The Cypriot High Court passed over Isabella’s claim, in favour of Hugh of Antioch-Lusignan. From this point onwards, cert ...
his mother, Isabella. Thefirst of these contentions, certainly, had con- siderable legal weight. In particular, Hugh of Antioch- ...
succeeded as king of Jerusalem two years later, reuniting the crowns for thefirst time since his great-grandfather.^128 As thirt ...
4 The Angevins and Athens (c. 1267–1311) The events of the mid-1260s constitute a watershed in the relationship between France a ...
a clear confirmation of the Briennes’subordinate status–sometimes, indeed, to the point of pathetic clientage. This chapter, the ...
kinswoman, Agnes of Laval, to become the third abbess of the convent.^5 Blanche proved to be an assertive and acquisitive leader ...
a rather later date, between the mid-1220s and the late 1240s. This discrepancy may well be the key to unravelling the events th ...
left her and Alfonso’s son, the future John II, as the rightful heir to her lands and claims–except, of course, that the boy was ...
of Nangis, records some murmuring against the decision, which was thought to be too lenient.^19 However, the king’s clemency was ...
(that is, the son and heir of Philip III).^25 Whatever the truth on this point, it was the magnitude of Beatrice’s lineage and c ...
It may well be the case, then, that soon after this, Alfonso married John’s niece, Matilda of Eu.^30 If this is the correct reco ...
of Eu. However, Count John’s side was far more illustrious. It began, we are told, with a representation of John of Brienne, kin ...
worth noting, of course, that Robert had acted as the effective regent of Sicily for more thanfive years, and hence that he had ...
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