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• Name	BRIENNE, Jean de
  Prefix	King
  Suffix	I
  Birth	1 Jun 1158	Acre, Israel
  Gender	Male
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  Burial	Mar 1237
  Death	21 Mar 1237	Constantinople, İstanbul, Turkey
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  Family	LEON, Princess Berenger ,   b. Sep 1198, Leon, Leon, Spain Leon, Leon, Spaind. 12 Apr 1237, Constantinople, Constantinople, Turkey (Age 38 years)
  Marriage	1210
  Notes	MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married 1211 ~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 18 Mar 1992, ATLAN.
  Children	4 sons and 1 daughter
  1. BRIENNE, Isabella Yolanda de ,   b. 1207, Brienne, Nièvre, Bourgogne, France Brienne, Nièvre, Bourgogne, Franced. 5 May 1228, Brienne, Nièvre, Bourgogne, France (Age 21 years) + 2. BRIENNE, Jean de II ,   b. 1217, Galilee, Israel Galilee, Israeld. 1296, Dordogne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France (Age 79 years)   3. BRIENNE, Viscount Louis D'Acre de ,   b. 1218, Galilee, Israel Galilee, Israeld. 1297 (Age 79 years)   4. BRIENNE, Alphonso de ,   b. 1220, Brienne, Nièvre, Bourgogne, France Brienne, Nièvre, Bourgogne, Franced. 1270 (Age 50 years) + 5. BRIENNE, Viscount Louis de ,   b. Abt 1165, Jerusalem, Israel Jerusalem, Israel
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  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  BIO: King of Jerusalem; co-Emperor at Constantinople, 1231-37. ** from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/JERUSALEM.htm#JeanBriennedied1237, as of 11/1/2014 JEAN de Brienne, son of ERARD [II] de Brienne & his wife Agnès de Montbéliard [Montfaucon] ([1170/75]-27 Mar 1237). "Johan de Briene" is named as brother of Gauthier de Brienne by William of Tyre (Continuator), after his brother Guillaume[311]. "Gualterius comes Brene" donated property to Beaulieu (Aube) by charter dated 1194 with the consent of "Willelmi et Johannis fratrum eius"[312]. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "Iohannis frater eiusdem comitis [Galteri comitis Briennensis" when recording that he succeeded as Comte de Brienne after the death of his brother[313]. "Johannes comes Brene" donated property to Basse-Fontaine by charter dated Apr 1210[314]. His first marriage was arranged by Philippe II King of France, who gave him a dower of 40,000 silver pounds, a sum which was equalled by Pope Innocent III[315]. He landed at Acre 13 Sep 1210, was married to his first wife the next day, and was crowned 3 Oct 1210 at Tyre as JEAN King of Jerusalem by Albert Patriarch of Jerusalem[316]. "Iohannes…Latinorum Ierusalem rex decimus et comes Brena et domina Maria uxor mea regina" donated property to the church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem by charter dated 1 Jul 1211[317]. He retained the bailiship of the kingdom of Jerusalem after the death of his first wife[318], nominally in the name of his daughter. After a long siege, and with the help of western armies which were part of the Fifth Crusade, Damietta in Egypt was captured 5 Nov 1219 and added to the territory of the kingdom of Jerusalem[319]. Jean left the crusade in Feb 1220, intending to visit Armenia to claim the throne in the name of his second wife following the death of her father, but as both she and their infant son died before he sailed for Cilicia he had no further claim and abandoned the journey[320]. He arrived back with the Fifth Crusade 6 Jul 1221, which proceeded to march further into Egypt but was forced to retreat and return Damietta 8 Sep 1221[321]. After appointing Eudes de Montbéliard as regent, King Jean sailed from Acre in autumn 1222, to find a suitable husband for his daughter. He agreed to her marriage with Friedrich II King of Germany on condition that he continued as regent of Jerusalem for life. Matthew Paris records that “Johannes de Brennes rex Jerusalem et magister superioris Hospitalis fratrum Jerusalem” visited England “circa octavas Apostolorum Petri et Pauli” to seek help for the relief of “Terræ Sanctæ”[322]. His son-in-law reneged on his promise relating to the throne of Jerusalem immediately after his wedding and declared himself king of Jerusalem in 1225[323]. He was appointed regent of the Latin empire of Constantinople, by agreement at Perugia in Apr 1229, and was crowned JEAN Emperor of Constantinople on his arrival in the city in 1231. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines records the death in 1237 in Constantinople of "rex Iohannes"[324]. m firstly (Tyre 1210) MARIE Queen of Jerusalem, daughter of CORRADO Marchese di Monferrato & his third wife Isabelle Queen of Jerusalem (Tyre Summer 1192-1212). William of Tyre (Continuator) names her and specifies her parentage[325]. A continuator of Caffaro records the death in 1192 of "Conrado marchionis Montidferrati" leaving "uxore sua pregnante, ex quo nata est unica filia Maria"[326], which indicates that Maria must have been born in summer 1192, therefore after her mother's second marriage. She was known as "la Marquise", from her father's rank[327]. Her marriage was arranged by Philippe II King of France, who gave her husband a dower of 40,000 silver pounds, a sum which was equalled by Pope Innocent III[328]. She was crowned with her husband 3 Oct 1210 at Tyre[329]. William of Tyre (Continuator) records her death in childbirth within two years of her marriage[330]. m secondly ([23/30] Apr 1214) RITA [Stephanie] of Armenia, daughter of LEWON I King of Armenia & his first wife Isabelle --- (after 1195-[Acre] [Jun] 1220). William of Tyre (Continuator) names her and her father when recording her marriage, specifying that she was the daughter of his first marriage[331]. The Chronique du Royaume de la Petite Arménie of Constable Sempad names "une fille encore en bas âge…Ritha" as Leo's daughter by his first marriage, stating that she was brought up by her paternal grandmother[332]. Smbat Sparapet's Chronicle records that "King Lewon gave his daughter Rita to the king of Jerusalem" in [27 Jan 1214/26 Jan 1215][333]. "Leo…rex Armenie" granted property to the Knights Hospitallers with the consent of "domini Rupini principis Antiochie…nepotis et heredis mei" by charter dated 23 Apr 1214, and declared having received a loan from the Knights Hospitallers by charter dated the same date, both documents specifying that they formed part of the arrangements for the marriage of "mee filie" and "regi Iherosolimitano"[334]. William of Tyre (Continuator) records that "li rois Johans", on hearing news of the death of “Livon le roi d’Ermenie, pere de sa feme”, left for Acre from where he intended to go to Armenia to claim the throne, but that he abandoned the journey because his wife died, and after 15 days later also “un fil que il en avoit de age de IV ans”[335]. m thirdly (Toledo 1224) Infanta doña BERENGUELA de Castilla y León, daughter of don ALFONSO IX King of León & his second wife Infanta doña Berenguela de Castilla (1204-Constantinople 12 Apr 1237, bur Constantinople). The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines refers to the wife of "rex Ierusalem Iohannes" as daughter of "Berengaria" and "regi Legionensi id est regi Galicie" and in a later passage records the marriage of "rex Iohannes Ierosolimitanus" and "filia regis Gallicie, sororem Fernandi de Castella", but in neither place is she named[336]. The Chronique de Guillaume de Nangis records the marriage in 1223 of "le roi de Castille…sa sœur Bérengère, nièce de Blanche reine de France" and "Jean roi de Jérusalem"[337]. "Jehan fiuz le roy Jehan de Jherusalem, bouteillier de France" instituted masses for "nostre pere le roy Jehan de Jherusalem et empereur de Costantinoble…et madame Berangiere sa fame jadis nostre mere" in the church of St Paul, Paris by charter dated Oct 1294[338]. The necrology of Maubuisson records the death "II Id Apr" of "Berengaria imperatrix Constantinopolitane"[339]. King Jean & his first wife had one child: 1. ISABELLE [Yolande] of Jerusalem (1211-Andria, Bari 25 Apr or 5 May 1228, bur Bari cathedral). m (by proxy Acre Aug 1225, Brindisi Cathedral 9 Nov 1225) as his second wife, Emperor FRIEDRICH II, son of Emperor HEINRICH VI [Hohenstaufen] & his wife Constanza of Sicily (Iesi, Ancona 26 Dec 1194-Castel Fiorentino near Lucera, Foggia, of dysentery 13 Dec 1250, bur 25 Feb 1251 Palermo Cathedral). King Jean & his second wife had one child: 2. son ([1216]-[Jun/Jul] 1220). King Jean & his third wife had four children: 3. MARIE de Brienne (Capua Apr 1225-in Italy after 5 May 1275, bur Assisi). m (contract Perugia 19 Apr 1229, in person 1234) BAUDOUIN II Emperor of Constantinople, son of PIERRE Emperor of Constantinople, Seigneur de Courtenay & his second wife Yolande de Flandre Marquise de Namur (Constantinople [late 1217/early 1218]-Naples 1273 after 15 Oct, bur Barletta Cathedral). 4. ALPHONSE de Brienne dit d'Acre (-Tunis 25 Aug 1270, bur Saint-Denis). He succeeded as Comte d'Eu, by right of his wife. 5. LOUIS de Brienne dit d'Acre (-after 1 Sep 1297). He succeeded as Vicomte de Beaumont-au-Maine by right of his wife. 6. JEAN de Brienne dit d'Acre (-1296). m firstly ([1250/52]) as her second husband, JEANNE de Châteaudun, widow of JEAN Comte de Montfort, daughter of GEOFFROY [VI] Vicomte de Châteaudun & his second wife Clémence des Roches (-[19 Sep 1254]). m secondly (before 6 Jun 1257, separated [1265]) MARIE de Coucy, widow of ALEXANDER II King of Scotland, daughter of ENGUERRAND [III] Seigneur de Coucy & his third wife Marie de Montmirail (-[1284/85], bur Newbottle, Scotland). ** from The Ill Enc of Medieval Civ (A. Grabois) p 451-- John of Brienne (1148-1237) King of Jerusalem (1210-25), Latin emperor of Constantinople from 1231. Count of Brienne in Champagne, he befriended Philip II, king of France, whom he joined on the Third Crusade. By marrying Mary, queen of Jeruslaem, at Acre in 1210, he became king of the Crusaders' realm. Devoting his energy to consolidating the kingdom, he took part in the Fifth Crusade at the Egyptian port of Damietta (1218-20), where his counsels against adventure went unheeded. In 1225, he arranged the marriage of his daughter Isabella with Frederick II, hoping to retain his regency of the kingdom of Jerusalem. But Frederick ordered him to abdicate the kingship and vested him with lands in Italy, where John became one of his adversaries. As one of the most experinced men of his time, he was called to Constantinople in 1228, to act as regent for young Baldwin II and, at Baldwin's death, was elected emperor. In his old age, he fought against the Bulgarians, maintaining the empire intact. ** from The Encyclopedia of World History (William Langer, 1962) p 260 Near East 1229-1237. Regency of John of Brienne, former King of Jerusalem, for the boy-emperor. John became co-emperor in 1231. ** from Wikipedia listing for John of Brienne, as of 11/1/2014 John of Brienne (c. 1170[1] – 27 March 1237) was a French nobleman who became King of Jerusalem by marriage, and ruled the Latin Empire of Constantinople as regent. Life John of Brienne was the second son of Erard II, count of Brienne, in Champagne, and of Agnes de Montfaucon. Destined originally for a clerical career, he had preferred to become a knight, and in forty years of tournaments and fights he had won himself a considerable reputation, when in 1208 envoys came from the Holy Land to ask Philip Augustus, king of France, to select one of his barons as husband to the heiress and ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Philip selected John of Brienne, and promised to support him in his new dignity. In 1210, John married the heiress (Mary) Maria (daughter of Isabella and Conrad of Montferrat), assuming the title of king in right of his wife. In 1211, after some desultory operations, he concluded a five years' truce with Malik-el-Adil; in 1212 he lost his wife, who left him a daughter, Yolande (also known as Isabella); soon afterwards he married the princess Stephanie, daughter of Leo I, King of Armenia. During the Fifth Crusade (1218–1221) he was a prominent figure. The legate Pelagius of Albano, however, claimed the command; and insisting on the advance from Damietta, in spite of John's warnings, he refused to accept the favourable terms of the sultan, as the king advised, until it was too late. After the failure of the crusade, King John came to the West to obtain help for his kingdom. In 1223 he met Pope Honorius III and the emperor Frederick II at Ferentino, where, in order that he might be connected more closely with the Holy Land, Frederick was betrothed to John's daughter Isabella, now heiress of the kingdom. After the meeting at Ferentino, John went to France and England, finding little consolation; and thence he travelled to Santiago de Compostela, where King Alfonso IX of Leon offered him the hand of one of his daughters and the promise of his kingdom. John passed over Alfonso's eldest daughter and heiress in favor of a younger daughter, Berenguela of Leon. After a visit to Germany he returned to Rome (1225). Here he received a demand from Frederick II (who had now married Isabella) that he should abandon his title and dignity of king, which, so Frederick claimed, had passed to himself along with the heiress of the kingdom. John avenged himself on Frederick, by commanding the papal troops which attacked southern Italy during the emperor's absence on the Sixth Crusade (1228–1229). In 1229, John was invited by the barons of the Latin Empire of Constantinople to become emperor-regent, on condition that Baldwin of Courtenay should marry his second daughter and succeed him. He then ruled in Constantinople, and in 1235, with a few troops, he repelled a siege of the city by John III Doukas Vatatzes, emperor of Nicaea, and Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria, leading a successful cavalry charge which killed some 10,000 enemy soldiers.[2] After this last feat of arms, which has perhaps been exaggerated by the Latin chroniclers, who compare him to Hector, Roland and the Maccabees, John died in the habit of a Franciscan friar. An aged paladin, he was somewhat uxorious and always penniless, and a typical knight errant whose wanderings led him all over Europe, and planted him successively on the thrones of Jerusalem and Constantinople. Marriages and issue John of Brienne married three times. By his first wife, Maria of Montferrat, he had one child, Yolande, later Queen of Jerusalem. He had also one child by his second wife, Stephanie of Armenia, a son named as successor in Armenia, but died in childhood. By his third wife, Berenguela of Leon, he had four children: Marie of Brienne (1225–1275), who married Emperor Baldwin II of Constantinople. Alphonso of Brienne (c. 1228–1270), who married Marie d'Issoudon, countess of Eu, and became count of Eu in right of his wife, and was also Great Chamberlain of France. Jean (John) de Brienne (c. 1230–1296), who in 1258 became Grand Butler of France. Married as his first wife, Jeanne, daughter of Geoffrey VI, Viscount of Chateaudun, and as his second wife, Marie de Coucy, widow of King Alexander II of Scotland. Had one daughter, Blanche by his first marriage. Louis of Acre (c. 1235–1263), who married Agnes of Beaumont and became Viscount of Beaumont in her right. His children included Henry de Beaumont, Earl of Buchan, an ancestor of England's Royal House of Lancaster. Notes The persuasive arguments for putting John's year of birth between 1169 and 1175 are set forth in James Michael Buckley, "The Problematical Octogenarianism of John of Brienne", Speculum, 32 (1957), pp. 315-322 Gibbon, Edward (1837). "The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire". References Attribution Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to John of Brienne.

  
  

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