Gauthier III de Brienne

Abt 1165 - 1205  (~ 40 years)

• Name	Gauthier III de Brienne
  Birth	Abt 1165  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Jun 1205	Sarno, Campania, Italy   [1]
  Burial	Church of St. Maria della Foce, Sarno, Campania, Italy   [1]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  + 1. Gauthier III de Brienne ,   b. Abt 1165   d. Jun 1205, Sarno, Campania, Italy  (Age ~ 40 years) ▻ Elvira de Lecce ,  m. 1200 + 2. Jeane de Brienne, King of Jerusalem; Latin Emperor of Constantinople ,   b. Abt 1175   d. 23 Mar 1237, Constantinople  (Age ~ 62 years) ▻ Bérenguère of Castile-León ,  m. 1223
  Person ID	I28864	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	14 Jun 2020

  
  

  Father	Erard II de Brienne   d. 1191
  Mother	Agnès
  Family ID	F10539	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elvira de Lecce   d. Aft 1216
  Marriage	1200	Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Gauthier IV de Brienne,   b. 1205   d. Between 1247 and 1251, Cairo, Egypt (Age 42 years)
  Family ID	F17195	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Jun 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Prince of Tarente, Count of Brienne, Duke of Apulia, Count of Lecce, and titular King of Sicily 1201-1205. "In 1200 Gauthier married the sister and heiress of the deposed King Guglielmo III of Sicily. Her precise name is unclear but has been given variously as Elvira or Albinia, but also as Maria, Albiria and Blanche. At the time of their marriage, she and her family were exiles in France, trying to find allies to reclaim the kingdom of Sicily from the young King Fadrique (the future Friedrich II, Holy Roman Emperor, son of Heinrich VI, who deposed Guglielmo, had him blinded and castrated, and took him to Germany where he died). As her husband, Gauthier was recognised by Pope Innocent III as prince of Taranto, duke of Apulia, and count of Lecce. After the Battle of Agnella in 1201, he took the title of King of Sicily. In 1204 he was besieged in the fortress of Terracino by Diepold von Vohburg and lost an eye to an arrow, but he broke the siege and put Diepold to flight. On 11 June 1205 he was ambushed by Diepold while besieging him at Sarno, and was mortally wounded. Gauthier died imprisoned by the Germans on 14 June 1205, and was buried at the church of St. Maria della Foce in Sarno. Later in 1205 Gauthier's widow gave birth to his son Gauthier, who became known as Gauthier IV 'le Grand' de Brienne, comte de Brienne, count of Jaffa; he received only the county of Brienne, his Sicilian inheritance having been confiscated because of his father's rebellion." [Leo van de Pas, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler.