Narjot III de Toucy (died 1241), lord of Bazarnes, was the son of Narjot II of

Toucy Toucy () is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France, in the historical region of Puisaye. Personalities Toucy was the birthplace and hometown of Pierre Larousse, lexicographer and founder of the publ ...

(France) and his wife Agnes de Dampierre.

Life

Alongside his father-in-law

Theodore Branas Theodore Branas or Vranas ( el, , ''Theodōros Branas''), sometimes called Theodore Komnenos Branas, was a general under the Byzantine Empire and afterwards under the Latin Empire of Constantinople. Under the Latin regime he was given the title Ca ...

and Geoffroy de Merry, Narjot de Toucy formed part of the council that briefly governed

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from 17 December 1219 (on the death of

Conon de Béthune Conon de Béthune (before 1160 in the former region of Artois, today Pas-de-Calais - 17 December 1219, possibly at Adrianople) was a French crusader and trouvère poet who became a senior official and finally regent of the Latin Empire of Cons ...

) until the arrival of the designated Emperor,

Robert of Courtenay Robert I, also Robert of Courtenay (died 1228), Latin Emperor of Constantinople, was a younger son of the emperor Peter II of Courtenay, and Yolanda of Flanders. When it became known in France that Peter of Courtenay was dead, his eldest son, ...

, in 1220. He served as

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of the

Latin Empire The Latin Empire, also referred to as the Latin Empire of Constantinople, was a feudal Crusader state founded by the leaders of the Fourth Crusade on lands captured from the Byzantine Empire. The Latin Empire was intended to replace the Byzant ...

in 1228–1231, during the minority of

Baldwin II of Constantinople Baldwin II, also known as Baldwin of Courtenay (french: Baudouin de Courtenay; late 1217 – October 1273), was the last Latin Emperor ruling from Constantinople. Biography Baldwin II was born in Constantinople (the only Latin emperor to be bo ...

and in 1238–1239 during the Emperor's fund-raising journey in western Europe. He died in 1241.

Marriage and issue

Narjot de Toucy's first wife was the daughter of

and the dowager Empress

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(Agnes of France). They had four children: *

Philip of Toucy Philippe de Toucy (died 12 January 1277) was a French Crusader nobleman and ''Bailli'' of the Latin Empire. Philippe was the son of Narjot de Toucy, a senior lord of the Latin Empire of Constantinople, and a daughter of the Byzantine lord Theodo ...

, who was regent of the Latin Empire from 1245 to 1247 and Admiral of

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in 1271. * Anselin of Toucy, lord of Mottola. * An unnamed daughter, who in 1239 married

William II of Villehardouin William of Villehardouin (french: Guillaume de Villehardouin; Kalamata, 1211 – 1 May 1278) was the fourth prince of Achaea in Frankish Greece, from 1246 to 1278. The younger son of Prince Geoffrey I, he held the Barony of Kalamat ...

prince of Achaea The Prince of Achaea was the ruler of the Principality of Achaea, one of the crusader states founded in Greece in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade (1202–1204). Though more or less autonomous, the principality was never a fully independent s ...

. * Margaret of Toucy, who married Leonardo of Veruli, Chancellor of the Principality of Achaea. In 1239 or 1240, presumably after his first wife's death, Narjot de Toucy married the daughter of Jonas, King of the Cumans. She became a nun after his death.

References

Bibliography

* Jean Longnon, "Les Toucy en Orient et en Italie au XIIIe siècle" in ''Bulletin de La Société des Sciences Historiques et Naturelles de l'Yonne'' (1953/1956) *

External links

Medieval Lands Project
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