Renaud of Briel, in older literature Renaud of Bruyères, was a French knight and the first lord of the Barony of Karytaina in the Principality of Achaea, in Frankish Greece. Hailing from

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in the French province of Champagne, Renaud had accompanied

Geoffrey of Villehardouin Geoffrey of Villehardouin (c. 1150 – c. 1213) was a French knight and historian who participated in and chronicled the Fourth Crusade. He is considered one of the most important historians of the time period,Smalley, p. 131 best known for wr ...

on the

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, traveling directly to

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rather than to

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with the main crusader expedition. Renaud then went to

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, where after five years of service as a knight, he was appointed lord of Karytaina (1209-1222) by

. Renaud’s younger brother

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joined him in Greece in 1215, married Geoffrey of Villehardouin’s only daughter Alix, and later succeeded Renaud as baron of Karytaina (ca. 1222-38).

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