Erard II (died 16 June 1236) was the
Sire de
Chacenay (Chassenay) from 1190/1. He was the eldest son of
Erard I of Chacenay and Mathilde de Donzy.
Life
In 1209 Erard, with the consent of his unnamed wife, confirmed a donation to
Basse-Fontaine by a certain ''Agnete'', specified as ''domina'' of Chacenay, probably his grandmother Agnes de Brienne.
During the
succession crisis of Champagne, Erard was the strongest support of
Erard of Brienne-Ramerupt
Érard de Brienne (c. 1170 † 1246) was a French nobleman. He was lord of Ramerupt and of Venizy, and also a pretender to the county of Champagne as an instigator of the Champagne War of Succession. He was a son of André of Brienne and of ...
and was the last to reconcile with
Blanche of Navarre.
Uneasy with the result in Champagne, Erard took part in the
Fifth Crusade
The Fifth Crusade (1217–1221) was a campaign in a series of Crusades by Western Europeans to reacquire Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land by first conquering Egypt, ruled by the powerful Ayyubid sultanate, led by Al-Adil I, al-Adil, brothe ...
(1217), but was back in Europe by 1220. In July 1219 Erard's cousin,
Hervé,
Count of Nevers
The counts of Nevers were the rulers of the County of Nevers, which became a French duchy in 1539, with the rulers of the duchy calling themselves dukes.
History
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, confirmed a donation Erard had made to the
Teutonic Knights
The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem, commonly known as the Teutonic Order, is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem. It was formed to aid Christians o ...
, while Erard was at the
siege of Damietta. Upon his return, Erard paid homage to
Theobald, Count of Champagne and made a donation to the convent of Argensolles, which had been founded by Blanche of Navarre.
He was a patron of the
trouvère
''Trouvère'' (, ), sometimes spelled ''trouveur'' (, ), is the Northern French ('' langue d'oïl'') form of the '' langue d'oc'' (Occitan) word ''trobador'', the precursor of the modern French word ''troubadour''. ''Trouvère'' refers to poet ...
Guiot de Dijon. He was buried in the
Abbey of Clairvaux
Clairvaux Abbey (, ; la, Clara Vallis) was a Cistercian monastery in Ville-sous-la-Ferté, from Bar-sur-Aube. The original building, founded in 1115 by St. Bernard, is now in ruins; the present structure dates from 1708. Clairvaux Abbey was ...
, 16 June 1236.
Marriage and issue
Erard was the second husband of Emmeline (Emelina) de Broyes (died 1249, before April), widow of
Odo II of Champlitte Odo II of Champlitte, (died May 1204 at the Siege of Constantinople) was the first son of Odo or Eudes I of Champlitte and a grandson of Hugh, Count of Champagne, although Hugh disowned Odo I.
At an assembly at Citeaux, Odo, and his brother Willi ...
. They were married in 1205. In 1218 she made a joint donation with her husband to the
Abbey of Moutier-la-Celle. Erard was faced with a possible divorce when he sold his step-daughter, Oda's, inheritance to the Knights Templar. Erard and Emeline had:
*Huet, died on Crusade in 1247, no issue
*
Erard III, succeeded Erard
*Matilda, who married Guy d'Arcis-sur-Aube
*
Alix,
*Joanna, who is only known from the donation of 1218
Notes
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1236 deaths
Christians of the Fifth Crusade
Medieval French nobility
Year of birth unknown
13th-century French people