Walter V of Brienne (c.
1275 –
March 15,
1311) was born in
Brienne-le-Château,
Aube,
Champagne,
France. He was the son of Hugh de Candie des Brienne, known as
Hugh of Brienne,
Count of Brienne and
Lecce, and Isabel of la Roche, daughter of
Guy I of la Roche,
Duke of Athens. He was the heir of the
Brienne claim to the Kingdom of Jerusalem and of Cyprus, as well as to
Taranto and Sicily.
Walter spent his youth as a hostage in
Sicily, in the castle of
Agosta. On the death of his father Hugh in
1296, Walter inherited the titles of Count of Brienne,
Conversano and Lecce. Like his father, he took up arms in the service of
Naples, but was captured in an ambush at
Gagliano in
1300. He was freed in
1302 with the signing of the
Treaty of Caltabellotta. The death of his mother's first cousin,
Guy II of la Roche, in
1308 brought him the Duchy of Athens. There he found himself hard pressed by the
Despot of Epirus, the Emperor
Andronicus II Palaeologus and the
Lord of Vlachia. In
1310, he hired the
Catalan Company, then ravaging the
Byzantine empire, to fight the
Greeks enroaching on his territory. After the Company had successfully reduced his enemies, he attempted to expel the Company from Athens with their pay in arrears. The Company refusing this, Walter marched out with a strong force of French knights from Athens,
the Morea and Naples and Greek foot from Athens. Walter's army met the Catalans at the
Battle of Halmyros on the river
Cephissus in
Boeotia on
March 15,
1311. The Catalans won a devastating victory, killing Walter and almost all of his chivalry, and seizing his Duchy of Athens, excepting only the Lordship of
Argos and Nauplia. His son
Walter VI of Brienne succeeded him in all his titles; the Catalan Company nominated one of the surviving knights,
Roger Deslaur, as their leader and new Duke of Athens by conquest.
In the year
1306 he married
Jeanne de Châtillon and had two children:
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March 15 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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Commune of
Brienne-le-Château
Location
Longitude 04° 31' 35'' E
Latitude 48° 23' 31'' N
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Country France
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Aube
Coat of arms of the Aube department
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Department number: 10
Region: Champagne-Ardenne
Prefecture: Troyes
Subprefectures: Bar-sur-Aube
Nogent-sur-Seine
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Champagne is a historic wine region in the northeast of France, best known for the production of the sparkling white wine that bears the region's name. The area is about 100 miles (160 km) east of Paris.
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MottoLiberté, Égalité, Fraternité"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
Anthem"
La Marseillaise"
..... Click the link for more information. Hugh de Candie, Count of Brienne and Lecce (c. 1240 – August 8, 1296) was the second surviving son of Count Walter IV of Brienne and Mary of Lusignan of Cyprus.
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The
County of Brienne was a medieval county in France centered on Brienne-le-Château.
Counts of Brienne
- Engelbert III
- Engelbert IV
- Walter I (? – c. 1090)
- Erard I (c. 1090 – c. 1120?)
- Walter II (c. 1120? – c. 1161)
- Erard II (c.
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Guy I de la Roche (1205-1263) was the Duke of Athens (from 1225), the nephew and successor of the first duke Otto. After the conquest of Thebes, Otto gave half the city in lordship to Guy.
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Duchy of Athens was one of the Crusader States set up in Greece after the conquest of the Byzantine Empire during the Fourth Crusade, encompassing the regions of Attica and Boeotia, and surviving until its conquest by the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century.
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Hugh, Count of Brienne claimed the regency of Jerusalem (and, indirectly, a place in the succession) in 1264 as senior heir of Hugh I of Cyprus and Alice of Jerusalem, being the son of their eldest daughter, but was passed over by the Haute Cour
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Agosta has more than one meaning;
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- Agosta, Italy
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The Kingdom of Naples was an informal name of the polity officially known as the Kingdom of Sicily which existed on the mainland of southern Italy after of the secession of the island of Sicily from the old Kingdom of Sicily after the Sicilian Vespers rebellion of
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Gagliano may refer to:
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- Gagliano Castelferrato, Sicily, Italy
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The Peace of Caltabellotta, signed on August 19, 1302, was the last of a series of treaties, including those of Tarascon and Anagni, designed to end the conflict between the Houses of Anjou and Barcelona for ascendancy in the Mediterranean and especially Sicily and the Mezzogiorno.
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Guy II de la Roche (1280 – 5 October 1308) was the Duke of Athens from 1287, the last duke of his family. He succeeded as a minor on the death of his father, William I, at a time when the duchy of Athens had exceeded the Principality of Achaea in wealth, power, and importance.
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The Catalan Company,[1] short name for the Catalan Company of the East (Companyia Catalana d'Orient in Catalan), was a free company of mercenaries founded by Roger de Flor in early 14th-century Europe.
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