Adelais of Baudemont

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Also called, on some occasions, Hubelina. Peter Stewart's 6 Feb 2011 post to SGM demonstrates that Adelais and Hubelina have to have been the same person, and that contrary to some claims, she was the only known wife of Gautier II.

Family/Spouse: Gautier II of Brienne. Gautier (son of Erard I of Brienne and Alix) died before 1161. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Brienne. He was a French general in the Third Crusade, most notably at the siege of Acre.

Family/Spouse: Agnès. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lord of Ramerupt. Killed fighting Saladin at the siege of Acre.

André married Adélais before 1167. Adélais (daughter of Anseau de Venisy and Isabelle de Nangis) died between 20 Mar 1221 and Nov 1222. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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]

Gauthier married Elvira de Lecce in 1200 in Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France. Elvira (daughter of Tancred, King of Sicily and Sibilla d'Aquino) died after 1216. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Between 1169 and 1174

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From Wikipedia:

John of Brienne (c. 1170 - 27 March 1237), also known as John I, was King of Jerusalem from 1210 to 1225 and Latin Emperor of Constantinople from 1229 to 1237. He was the youngest son of Erard II of Brienne, a wealthy nobleman in Champagne. John, originally destined for an ecclesiastical career, became a knight and owned small estates in Champagne around 1200. After the death of his brother, Walter III, he ruled the County of Brienne on behalf of his minor nephew Walter IV (who lived in southern Italy).

The barons of the Kingdom of Jerusalem proposed that John marry Maria, Queen of Jerusalem. With the consent of Philip II of France and Pope Innocent III, he left France for the Holy Land and married the queen; the royal couple were crowned in 1210. After Maria's death in 1212 John administered the kingdom as regent for their infant daughter, Isabella II; an influential lord, John of Ibelin, attempted to dethrone him. John was a leader of the Fifth Crusade. Although his claim of supreme command of the crusader army was never unanimously acknowledged, his right to rule Damietta (in Egypt) was confirmed shortly after the town fell to the crusaders in 1219. He claimed the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia on behalf of his second wife, Stephanie of Armenia, in 1220. After Stephanie and their infant son died that year, John returned to Egypt. The Fifth Crusade ended in failure (including the recovery of Damietta by the Egyptians) in 1221.

John was the first king of Jerusalem to visit Europe (Italy, France, England, León, Castile and Germany) to seek assistance for the Holy Land. He gave his daughter in marriage to Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in 1225, and Frederick ended John's rule of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Although the popes tried to persuade Frederick to restore the kingdom to John, the Jerusalemite barons regarded Frederick as their lawful ruler. John administered papal domains in Tuscany, became the podestà of Perugia and was a commander of Pope Gregory IX's army during Gregory's war against Frederick in 1228 and 1229.

He was elected emperor in 1229 as the senior co-ruler (with Baldwin II) of the Latin Empire, and was crowned in Constantinople in 1231. John III Vatatzes, Emperor of Nicaea, and Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria occupied the last Latin territories in Thrace and Asia Minor, besieging Constantinople in early 1235. John directed the defence of his capital during the months-long siege, with the besiegers withdrawing only after Geoffrey II of Achaea and united fleets from Italian towns defeated their fleet in 1236. The following year, John died as a Franciscan friar.

Jeane married Bérenguère of Castile-León in 1223 in Burgos, Castile, Spain. Bérenguère (daughter of Alfonso IX, King of León and Galicia and Berenguela I of Castile, Queen Of Castile & Toledo) was born about 1199; died on 12 Apr 1237 in Constantinople. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lord of Rameru and Venisy. Count of Brienne.

Family/Spouse: Philippe de Champagne. Philippe (daughter of Henri II, King of Jerusalem and Isabella d'Anjou) died in 1250. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Brienne; Count of Jaffa.

From Leo Van de Pas (citation details below):

Gauthier was born in 1205, the son of Gauthier III de Brienne, prince of Tarente, comte de Brienne, and Elvira (Albiria) of Sicily. Around the time of his birth, his father lost his bid for the Sicilian throne and died in prison. His inheritance of the principality of Tarente and the county of Lecce was confiscated.

Gauthier IV was not a crusader per se, but a baron of Outremer, having emigrated there upon or following his arranged marriage to Marie de Lusignan about 1233. His family had various Italian involvements with Emperor Frederick II through Gauthier's Sicilian mother, and of course strong connections to Outremer with the marriage of his uncle Jean de Brienne to the heiress of Jerusalem.

As count of Jaffa he had a good military reputation over a number of years. However he was involved in the great losses of the kingdom of Jerusalem to the Khorasmians in 1244. One of the commanders of the combined army of the kingdom in the field against the Khorasmians in October 1244, his tactical choices in the field of Herbgiya (a few miles northeast of Gaza) on 17 October 1244 spelled disaster: the defeat of the army of the kingdom of Jerusalem, and the greatest loss in pitched battle since Hattin.

Gauthier was taken prisoner. The Khorasmian army then marched to Jaffa and besieged it, hanging Gauthier on a forked pole, outside the walls, threatening to leave him hanging until Jaffa capitulated. While dangling he shouted to his men not to capitulate, and that he would kill them with his own hands if they did. Jaffa held.

He was eventually taken to Cairo. Joinville tells us that the Sultan handed him over to various commanders who avenged their losses at his hands, presumably by torturing him to death at an unknown date, but thought to be between 1247 and 1251. His cousin Marguerite had his remains taken from Cairo and removed to Acre for burial.

Gauthier married Marie de Lusignan about 1233. Marie (daughter of Hugues I de Lusignan, King of Cyprus and Alix de Champagne) was born in 1215; died after 1251. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Jean d'Acre. Count of Montfort jure uxoris.

"Grand butler of France, 1258?; guardian and councillor, with his 2nd wife, Marie de Coucy, queen mother of Scotland, of Alexander III of Scotland 1257-1259; ambassador to Spain, 1275; administered Champagne for Blanche d'Artois and her 2nd husband Edmund of Lancaster, 1276-1284." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

Jean married Jeanne de Châteaudun in 1251. Jeanne (daughter of Geoffroi VI de Châteaudun and Clémence des Roches) died about 1254; was buried in Maubuisson Abbey near Pontoise, near Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Jure uxoris viscount of Beaumont.

Family/Spouse: Agnes de Beaumont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry V de Grandpré. Henry (son of Henry IV de Grandpré and Marie de Garlande) was born about 1218; died after 7 Apr 1287. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]