The Briennes_ The Rise and Fall of a Champenois Dynasty in the Age of the Crusades, C. 950-1356
rightthatheissaidtohaveinthekingdomofCyprus’as thefirst step on theroadtowinningbacktheHolyLanditself.^154 The truce of 1289 pro ...
Isabella as well. However, Hugh and Helena stuck to the policy of ‘masterly inactivity’that had served them so well over the cou ...
Walter had certainly been released, and journeyed on to France, within a short time of his father’s death. We know that he had f ...
seems, rumours came through that the castellan of Gagliano, somefifty miles north-west of the town, was on the verge of defectin ...
was still owed a significant portion of Jeanne’s dowry– 200 l. of rent–as late as the spring of 1307.^171 Yet this does not seem ...
famous ‘Catalan Company’ of mercenaries. The Company’s history would have been well known to him. It had formed under the leader ...
The two armies confronted one another near Halmyros, in Thessaly, on 15 March 1311.^181 Whilst the‘Frankish’host was not 30,000- ...
ploy, and that Walter and the Catalans were about to combine to destroy them. They joined in the slaughter only when it became c ...
5 Hubris and Nemesis (c. 1311–1356) On 17 November 1350, Raoul IV, count of Eu and Guînes and constable of France, was suddenly ...
whole was clearly located in north-western Europe, despite Walter VI’s continued ambitions in southern Italy and Greece. Indeed, ...
and, as late as October 1324, Pope John XXII was still trying to com- mend Walter VI and his cause to them.^4 It is not surprisi ...
Walter who acquired the lordship of Juvanzé.^12 Moreover, we know that, a few years later, thebailliwas acting in accordance wit ...
shall see; the other was Mary, who, again, died young.^20 Perhaps the most significant feature of Raoul III’s marriage, however, ...
The activities of the other main line of the house of Brienne in France, the Beaumonts, cannot help but look rather parochial by ...
sister, Isabella de Vescy, collectively constituted another.^28 The great reaction came in the‘Ordinances’of 1310–11. Thefinal t ...
Although these particular ordinances were formally abrogated a couple of years later, the text makes it clear that the Beaumonts ...
of the English army was crushingly defeated by the Scots. Henry was among those who accompanied King Edward in hisflight from th ...
Beaumont, will be bishop of Durham”’.^37 Accordingly, Edward wrote to the pope, describing Louis as the best candidate available ...
Figure 5.1 The seal of Bishop Louis of Durham, with the device of the house of Beaumont on his dalmatic. Reproduced with permiss ...
The subprior of St Mary’s, Robert of Greystanes, is particularly hostile, claiming that Louis stumbled his way through his own o ...
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