Hugh,
Count of Brienne
The County of Brienne was a medieval county in France centered on Brienne-le-Château.
Counts of Brienne
* Engelbert I
* Engelbert II
* Engelbert III
* Engelbert IV
* Walter I (? – c. 1090)
* Erard I (c. 1090 – c. 1120?)
* Walter II ...
and
Lecce
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( 1240 – 9 August 1296) was the second surviving son of Count
Walter IV of Brienne
Walter IV (french: Gauthier (1205–1246) was the count of Brienne from 1205 to 1246.
Life
Walter was the son of Walter III of Brienne and Elvira of Sicily. Around the time of his birth, his father lost his bid for the Sicilian throne and died in ...
and
Marie de Lusignan of
Cyprus
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.
Life
His father,
Count of Jaffa and Ascalon
The double County of Jaffa and Ascalon was one of the four major seigneuries comprising the major Crusader state of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, according to 13th-century commentator John of Ibelin.
History
Jaffa was fortified by Godfrey of Bouill ...
in
Palestine
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, was murdered in 1244 in
Cairo
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, and was succeeded by his elder son,
John
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* John (surname)
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* Second ...
.
On the death of John (c. 1260), Hugh inherited the County of Brienne, in
France
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, and the family's claims in
southern Italy
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The term ''Mezzogiorno'' today refers to regions that are associated with the peop ...
, including the
Principality of Taranto
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and the County of Lecce, which had been confiscated in 1205.
He claimed the regency of the
Kingdom of Jerusalem
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(and, indirectly, a place in the succession) in 1264 as senior heir of
Alice of Jerusalem and
Hugh I of Cyprus
Hugh I (french: Hugues; gr, Ούγος; 1194/1195 – 10 January 1218) succeeded to the throne of Cyprus on 1 April 1205 underage upon the death of his elderly father Aimery, King of Cyprus and Jerusalem. His mother was Eschiva of Ibelin, heir ...
, being the son of their eldest daughter, but was passed over by the ''
Haute Cour
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'' in favor of his cousin
Hugh of Antioch, and thereafter took little part in the affairs of
Outremer
The Crusader States, also known as Outremer, were four Catholic realms in the Middle East that lasted from 1098 to 1291. These feudal polities were created by the Latin Catholic leaders of the First Crusade through conquest and political int ...
. His first cousin King
Hugh II of Cyprus
Hugh II of Cyprus (or Hugues II de Lusignan) (June–August, 1252 or 1253 – November or December 5, 1267) was king of Cyprus and, from the age of 5 years, also Regent of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Biography
On January 18, 1253, at the age of two ...
died in 1267, and despite Hugh's rights as the senior heir, Hugh of Antioch, was crowned as Hugh III of Cyprus. When his second cousin's son
Conradin
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, King of Jerusalem, was killed in 1268, the succession again went to the junior cousin Hugh III.
Hugh decided to seek his fortune in
Europe
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rather than
Outremer
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, and took service under
Charles I of Naples
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. Charles made him Captain-General of
Brindisi
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Histo ...
,
Otranto
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and
Apulia
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and Lord of
Conversano
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The counts of Conversano owned a stud that they us ...
, and he was an enthusiastic partisan of the
Angevin
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cause in Italy. For this service, his family's County of Lecce was restored to him. He was taken prisoner at the
Battle of the Gulf of Naples
The naval Battle of the Gulf of Naples took place on 5 June 1284 in the south of the Gulf of Naples, Italy, when an Aragonese-Sicilian galley fleet commanded by Roger of Lauria defeated a Neapolitan galley fleet commanded by Charles of Salerno ( ...
in 1284 with
Charles II of Naples
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and again at the
Battle of the Counts
The naval Battle of the Counts took place on 23 June 1287 at Naples, Italy, when an Aragonese- Sicilian galley fleet commanded by Roger of Lauria defeated a large combined Angevin (Kingdom of Naples) galley fleet commanded respectively by Reyn ...
in 1287, both times in sea battles against
Roger of Lauria
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. On one of these occasions, he obtained his parole by leaving his only son
Walter
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as a hostage. He was killed in
Sicily
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, at the Battle of Gagliano, fighting Catalan
Almogavars
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, and was succeeded by Walter.
In 1291, he married
Helena Angelina Komnene Helena Angelina Komnene ( el, Ἑλένη Ἀγγελίνα Κομνηνή) was a daughter of the Greek ''sebastokrator'' John I Doukas, ruler of Thessaly in ca. 1268–1289, and a Greek princess of Aromanian origin, known only by her monastic name ...
, the widow of
William de la Roche
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William reversed the territorial losses of his brother's reign, extending his control over Lamia and Gardiki. He ma ...
,
Duke of Athens
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, and regent for her underage son
Guy II de la Roche
Guy II de la Roche, also known as Guyot or Guidotto (1280 – 5 October 1308), was the Duke of Athens from 1287, the last duke of his family.''The Latins in Greece and the Aegean from the Fourth Crusade to the End of the Middle Ages'', K. M. Se ...
. He thus became ''
bailli
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'' of the Duchy of Athens until Guy II's coming of age in 1296.
Marriages and issue
Hugh's first wife was
Isabella de la Roche
Isabella de la Roche (died before 1291) was a daughter of Guy I de la Roche. She was married twice, firstly to Geoffrey of Briel, Lord of Karytaina and then secondly to Hugh, Count of Brienne, having children only with her second husband.
Life
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, heiress of Thebes. They had a son,
Walter V
Walter V of Brienne (french: Gautier; – 15 March 1311) was Duke of Athens from 1308 until his death. Being the only son of Hugh of Brienne and Isabella de la Roche, Walter was the heir to large estates in France, the Kingdom of Naples, and th ...
(d. 1311), who succeeded Hugh, and a daughter, Agnes, who married Count John of Joigny. Hugh and his second wife,
Helena Angelina Komnene Helena Angelina Komnene ( el, Ἑλένη Ἀγγελίνα Κομνηνή) was a daughter of the Greek ''sebastokrator'' John I Doukas, ruler of Thessaly in ca. 1268–1289, and a Greek princess of Aromanian origin, known only by her monastic name ...
, had a daughter, Joanna, who married Duke
Nicholas I Sanudo
Nicholas I Sanudo (or ''Niccolò''; died 1341) was the fifth Duke of the Archipelago from 1323 to his death. He was the son and successor of William I of the House of Sanudo.
Nicholas fought under his brother-in-law Walter, Duke of Athens, at the ...
of Naxos.
Genealogical table
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1240 births
1296 deaths
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Counts of Lecce
Christians of the Crusades
French people of Cypriot descent
Military personnel killed in action
Regents of Jerusalem
House of Brienne
Barons of Karytaina
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