The Briennes_ The Rise and Fall of a Champenois Dynasty in the Age of the Crusades, C. 950-1356
of the seventh French cohort along with two other Normans, the lord of Tancarville and the count of Aumale.^49 What no one had a ...
Angevin establishment.^54 Indeed, there is a clear contrast between Louis and his elder brother, Alfonso, which can serve to sum ...
responsibilities seriously. He may well have been very concerned, for instance, about the welfare and prospects of his young nep ...
For all these Mediterranean links and connections, the Beaumonts would achieve their greatest successes not in these old hunting ...
pointed out that, not all that long before, the Beaumonts had produced a queen of Scots in the person of Isabella’s great-aunt, ...
foreigner: a veritable‘alieninpolitics’, even more than her father had once been. The king seems to have anticipated that there ...
opportunity to define and extend what had been, hitherto, a rather vague English suzerainty over Scotland.^78 The English perspe ...
Moreover, as he rose in importance, he was entrusted with more and more important duties and responsibilities. As early as 1300, ...
in 1308, and also in the grant of a lordship that had suddenly become tremendously important: the Isle of Man.^93 The crucial de ...
this: the branch represented by theEmpress Mary of Constantinople, along with her husband, Baldwin II. Charles’s victory had mad ...
of any conquests that they might make together, excepting only the city of Constantinople itself.^99 Although Charles now had go ...
Figure 4.1 Thegisant en marbre noire. The supposed tomb of Mary of Brienne, Latin empress of Constantinople. Photograph by Acoma ...
Barletta, looking hopefully across the Adriatic.^104 Mary survived her husband by several years. Very little is known about this ...
against making a bid for the disintegrating kingdom of Jerusalem. How- ever, he clearly regarded himself as the rightful ruler o ...
sudden rush of charters, and he sailed from Marseilles in the summer.^115 As he left, though, he formally acknowledged that he o ...
of tussles between Hugh and a rather lesserfigure, Bertrand of Réaulx. Despite repeated injunctions, Hugh was still in possessio ...
in childbirth–may well have led to questions about whether Hugh could keep her lands in trust for their children.^129 Longnon su ...
in right of his wife, Queen Constance. In this way, the revolt was converted into a major European war.^135 Hugh’s appointments ...
also reaffirms the count’s loyalty to the beleaguered Angevins. It isfirmly sited in the reign of Charles of Anjou’s successor, ...
This is highly significant, since it shows that there was continued contact between the senior line and the Ramerupt cadet branc ...
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