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Englebert de Brienne I
- Preferred Name: Englebert de Brienne I[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
- Gender: M
- Death: AFT 968 with note: https://www.wikiwand.com/fr/Engelbert_Ier_de_Brienne
- FSID: 9C9D-CHX
- Birth: BET 880 AND 910 in Brienne, Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France at LATI: N8.25 LONG: E0.0833
- Occupation: Comte de Brienne.
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
geni.com
Engelbert I de Brienne, Comte de Brienne
Birthdate: circa 880
Birthplace: France
Death: circa 968 (79-97)
Brienne Le Chateau, , Champagne,, Brienne Le Château, Aube, Grand Est, France
Immediate Family:
Husband of N.N. wife of Engelbert de Brienne
Father of Engelbert II, comte de Brienne; Marinaude de Cambray and Engeltrude de Brienne
http://shop.fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/chambrien.htm#EngelbertIVBriennedied1035A
=== Aventurier qui s'empare du comté de Brie ===
Aventurier qui s'empare du comté de Brienne.
=== 1028 Gf. v. Brienne ===
1028 Gf. v. Brienne
=== Source: Kraentzler 1320, 1326. K: Engelb ===
Source: Kraentzler 1320, 1326. K: Engelbert III de Brienne, Count de Brienne.
=== The countship was seated at Brienne-le-C ===
The countship was seated at Brienne-le-Chateau, a town in northeastern France (26 miles NE of Troyes). The countship thrived under the Carolingian dynasty. "In the 10th century it was captured by two adventurers named Engilbert and Gobert, and from the first of these sprang the noble house of Brienne, which played an important part in history of the 13th century." - Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1956, 4:145. Engilbert III m. Petronilla ?.
http://racineshistoire.free.fr/LGN/PDF/Brienne.pdf
=== Gf. v. Brienne um 1000 ===
Gf. v. Brienne um 1000
=== My PAF Notes ===
from thepeerage.com, 4/2009:
Engilbert II, Comte de Brienne1
M, #119930, b. before 950, d. after 987
Engilbert II, Comte de Brienne|b. b 950\nd. a 987|p11993.htm#i119930|Engilbert, Comte de Brienne|d. a 968|p11994.htm#i119931||||||||||||||||
Last Edited=29 Apr 2004
Engilbert II, Comte de Brienne was born before 950.1 He was the son of Engilbert, Comte de Brienne .1 He married Adele (?) .1 He died after 987.1
Engilbert II, Comte de Brienne succeeded to the title of Comte de Brienne after 968.1
Child of Engilbert II, Comte de Brienne and Adele (?)
Engilbert III, Comte de Brienne + b. c 970, d. a 10081
Citations
[S8 ] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999), volume 1, page 226. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition.
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Family 1: Wandelmodis d'Escuens, b. 925 in Salins, France d. 968 in Salins, France
- Engelbert de Brienne, b. ABT 975 d. ABT 1035
Sources:
- Title: Wikiwand: County of Brienne
Author: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/County_of_Brienne;
Note: 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. 1161 – 1191)
Walter III (1191–1205)
Walter IV (1205–1246)
John (1246 – c. 1260)
Hugh (c. 1260–1296)
Walter V (1296–1311)
Walter VI (1311–1356)
Isabella (1356–1360) with her son:
Sohier (1356–1364)
Walter VII (1364–1381)
Louis I (1381–1394)
Margaret (1394–1397) with her husband:
John of Luxembourg, Lord of Beauvoir (1394–1397)
Peter I, comte de St-Pol (1397–1433)
Louis I, comte de St-Pol (1433–1475)
Peter II, comte de St-Pol (1475–1481)
Anthony I, Count of Ligny (1481–1519)
Charles I, Count of Ligny (1519–1530)
Anthony II, Count of Ligny (1530–1557)
John III, Count of Ligny (1557–1576)
Charles, Duke of Brienne (1576–1608) (created Duke of Brienne in 1587; extinct on his death)
Louise, Countess of Brienne (1608–1647)
Louise de Béon (1647–?) with her husband:
Henri-Auguste de Loménie, comte de Brienne (1647–1666)
Louis Henri de Loménie, comte de Brienne (1666–1698)
Nicholas de Loménie, comte de Brienne (1698–1758)
Athanase Louis Marie de Loménie, comte de Brienne (1758–1794)
- Title: French Wikiwand: House Brienne
Author: An article from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article was machine-translated from French into English, then further edited; thus it may be difficult to interpret in places. t
Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/fr/Maison_de_Brienne;
Note: The Brienne house is a French feudal family, originally from Champagne, several members of which have distinguished themselves in France, Italy and the Orient.
History
The house of Brienne was a great French feudal family whose founder was Engelbert I, who lived in the 10th century during the reign of Louis IV of Outremer. Vassals of the Counts of Champagne, their medieval county was centered on the city of Brienne-le-Château.
The last of the elders, Gautier VI de Brienne, Constable of France, died in 1356. The castle and the county of Brienne then went through marriage to the houses of Enghien, Luxembourg, Loménie, and Bauffremont from 1851 to 1933, when the castle was sold to a merchant, a certain Londonschutz, who resold it as a ruin in 1955 to the General Council of Aube.
Branch elder: the Counts of Brienne
Engelbert I of Brienne (Angilbert) (?-968), first known Count of Brienne. According to the chronicler Flodoard, in 951, Englbert I and his brother Gotbert built the castle of Brienne from which they plundered the region until King Louis IV of Outremer came to besiege and destroy it;
Engelbert II of Brienne (?-980), son of the preceding;
Engelbert III de Brienne (?-?), son of the preceding. He first married Wandalmodis, daughter of the Countess Adela de Salins. Second, married Alix de Sens, daughter of Count Renard de Sens and the possible widow of Geoffroy I of Joigny;
Engelbert IV de Brienne (-1035 or later), son of the preceding, married Petronille de Joigny;
Gautier I de Brienne (about 1045-about 1090), son of the former, married Eustachie de Tonnerre, daughter of Milon III de Tonnerre;
Erard I de Brienne (-about 1125), son of the previous, married Alix de Ramerupt, daughter of André Ramerupt, Lord of Ramerupt and Arcis-sur-Aube;
Gautier II de Brienne (?-1161), son of the preceding, married for the second time a daughter of Jean de Soissons and Aveline de Pierrefonds. He showed great generosity during the establishment of the monks of the abbey of Basse-Fontaine in Brienne-la-Vieille;
Érard II de Brienne (?- February 8, 1190/1191), son of the former, married Agnès de Montfaucon-Montbéliard, daughter of Amédée de Montbéliard;
Gautier III de Brienne (?-June 11, 1205), son of the previous, married Elvire Albine, daughter of Tancred of Lecce, King of Sicily;
Gautier IV de Brienne (1205-1246), son of Gautier III de Brienne, married in 1233 Marie de Lusignan, daughter of Hugues de Lusignan, King of Cyprus. Her uncle John I agreed that he take possession of Brienne County in 1221;
Jean de Brienne (Count) (?-1260/1261), son of Gautier IV and Marie de Lusignan, married Marie d'Enghien, Lady of Thieusis;
Hugues de Brienne (about 1240/1260/1261-1296), brother of the preceding, also Duke of Lecce. He married first Isabelle de La Roche, daughter of Guy I of La Roche (Duke of Athens), and second, Hélène Ange Comnène, daughter of Jean Ange Comnène Duke of Neopatra and the widow of William I of La Roche (Duke of Athens, son of Guy and brother of Isabelle);
Gautier V de Brienne (about 1278-1296/1311), son of the former. He was Duke of Athens from 1301 to 1311, and was killed at the Battle of Lake Copais. He married Jeanne de Châtillon, daughter of Gaucher V de Châtillon;
Gautier VI de Brienne (circa 1302/1311-1356), son of Gautier V and Jeanne de Châtillon, was Count of Brienne of Lecce and Conversano, and Constable of France. He died at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356. He married Jeanne de Brienne (-1389), daughter of Count Raoul I st of Brienne, Count of Eu, and Jeanne de Mello;
Isabelle de Brienne, known as "La Belle Hélène" (circa 1305-1356/1360), was Lady of Ramerupt, Nevele and Machault. She inherited the title of Countess de Brienne to death without the descent of her brother Gautier VI. She married in 1321 Gautier III d'Enghien, Lord of Enghien, Tubize, and Lembeek.
Sour branches
John of Brienne, King of Jerusalem and Latin Emperor of Constantinople
Jean de Brienne was born around 1170/1175. His father was Érard II de Brienne (?-February 8, 1190/1191) and his mother was Agnès de Montfaucon-Montbéliard, above; they were married in the year 1166. With his brother Gautier III, Jean de Brienne participated in the Fourth Crusade in the Holy Land from 1202 to 1204. He returned to France in the year 1205.
He returned to Saint-Jean-d'Acre on September 1210. He was 40 years old and married on 14 September 1210 Marie de Montferrat (1192/1193-1212), 17-year-old Queen of Jerusalem. This marriage was granted by the King of France, Philippe Auguste. John of Brienne was crowned King of Jerusalem with his wife on October 3, 1210, in Tire. From this marriage were born:
Isabel II (Yolande), Queen of Jerusalem, who married in 1225 Frederick II, Germanic emperor. They had a son, Conrad (1228-1254). Widowed in the year 1212, Frederick II married second, in 1214, Rita of Armenia (ap.1195-1220). They had a son: John (1216-1220);
Jean de Brienne made another trip to France in the year 1222. Widowed since the year 1220, he married third, Bérengère de León-Castile, daughter of King Alfonso IX of León. Four children were born of this marriage:
Alphonse de Brienne, known as d'Acre, Count of Eu (see 1225-1270);
Louis Acre (c. 1225-1297/1301) married Agnes Beaumont. He became viscount of Beaumont-au-Maine, from Fresnay and Sainte-Suzanne, and founded the branch of Brienne of Beaumont, Viscounts of Maine;
Jean d'Acre (-1296), Butler of France, married in 1251/1252 Marie de Coucy, widow of King Alexander II of Scotland and daughter of Enguerrand III de Coucy;
Marie de Brienne (1225-1275), wife Baldwin II of Courtenay (1218-1273), Latin Emperor of Constantinople and Margrave of Namur.
The death of Robert de Courtenay in January 1228, placed on the throne of Contantinople an eleven-year-old child, Baldwin II of Courtenay (1217-1273). The barons at first thought of entrusting the regency to Ivan Asen II, Czar of the Bulgarians, but changed their minds, fearing the power of the latter. They then proposed the regency to Jean de Brienne, who accepted it in April 1229, on the condition of being put on the throne. As soon as he arrived in 1231, Jean de Brienne was crowned Emperor of Constantinople, where he died on March 27, 1237.
Eu Branch
The branch of Eu came from Jean de Brienne, above.
Main article: List of counts of Eu.
Main article: List of Counts of Guines.
Alphonse de Brienne dit d'Acre (ca. 1227-1270), husband of Marie de Lusignan, daughter of Raoul II de Lusignan, count of Eu;
John II of Brienne (1250-1294), their son, married Beatrice, daughter of Guy II Count of Saint-Pol;
Jean III de Brienne (-1302), their son, married Jeanne de Guînes, daughter of Baldwin IV Count of Guînes;
Raoul I st of Brienne, Count of Eu and Guînes (1302 to 1344), was created Constable of France by Philip VI;
Raoul II de Brienne (?-1344/1350), son of the preceding, was Count of Eu and Guines. The November 19, 1350, Raoul II of Brienne, 15th and last Count of Guines, Constable of France, was accused of treason after the capture of Caen by the English, and beheaded in Paris on the orders of John II, who gave the county of Eu to Jean d'Artois and attached the county of Guines to the royal domain.
Branch of Conflans
Main article: House of Conflans.
Hubert de Brienne Conflans (Paris 1690-Paris 1777), son of Henri Jacob, Marquis of Conflans, and Marie du Bouchet. Marshal of France, he was commander at the Battle of the Cardinals;
Louis de Conflans d'Armentieres (1711-1774), arshal of France,
Charles Louis Gabriel of Conflans of Armentières (1772-1849), Marshal of Camp.
Branch of Ramerupt
André de Brienne, Lord of Ramerupt, knight of the Third Crusade, son of Gautier II de Brienne, husband of Adélais de Trainel-Venisy;
Érard Brienne-Ramerupt, son of the precedenting, Knight of the Cross, participated in the war of Champagne Succession in the name of his wife Philippe de Champagne;
Henri de Brienne, Lord of Ramerupt and Venisy; and Érard de Brienne: two sons of the preceding, were killed in 1250 during the Seventh Crusade;
Jeanne de Brienne, daughter of hte precedentlng, wife of Mathieu III de Montmorency .
- Title: French Wikiwand: Engelbert II de Brienne
Author: An article from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sources: JA Jacquot, Historical record on Brienne, 1832. M. Bourgeois, History of the Counts of Brienne, 1848. Marie Henry of Arbois de Jubainville, History of the Dukes and Counts of Champagne, 1865. Marie Henry d'Arbois de Jubainville, Catalog of Acts of the Counts of Brienne, 950-1356 ..., 1872. Edouard de Saint-Phalle, The Counts of Brienne, 2017. Dana Celest Asmoui Ismail, History of the Counts of Brienne (950 – 1210), 2013. Guy Perry, The Briennes: The Rise and Fall of a Champenois Dynasty in the Age of the Crusades, c. 950–1356, 2018.
Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/fr/Engelbert_II_de_Brienne;
Note: Engelbert II of Brienne (around 940-after 990) was the Count of Brienne at the end of 10th century. He was the son of Engelbert I, first known Count of Brienne.
Biography
He succeeded his father Engelbert I, as Count of Brienne, on his father's death in 968 (however, it is not impossible, but it is unlikely, that Engelbert I st and Engelbert II are one and the same person).
Shortly after 980, after the death of his daughter Ingeltrude and his son-in-law Milon de Tonnerre, he claimed possession of the land of Jessains, which had been part of his daughter's dowry, and which would have been donated by her and her husband to the monks of the abbey Saint-Michel de Tonnerre.
Engelbert III de Brienne later asserted in a charter that his predecessor, Engelbert II, had raised Montier-en-Der Abbey from its ruins.
Marriage and children
His wife's name is unknown (perhaps it was Mainfreda). They had at least two children:
Engelbert III de Brienne, who succeeded his father.
Ingeltrude de Brienne (-after 980), who married Milon, Count of Tonnerre.
- Title: Engelbert II de Brienne - Medlands
Publication: Name: http://shop.fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/chambrien.htm#EngelbertIVBriennedied1035A;
- Title: 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 4: Brienne-le-Château
Publication: Name: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Brienne-le-Ch%C3%A2teau;
Note: BRIENNE-LE-CHÂTEAU, a town of north-eastern France, in the department of Aube, 1 m. from the right bank of the Aube and 26 m. N.E. of Troyes on the Eastern railway. Pop. (1906) 1761. The château, which overlooks the town, is an imposing building of the latter half of the 18th century, built by the cardinal de Brienne (see below). It possesses an important collection of pictures, many of them historical portraits of the 17th and 18th centuries. The church dates from the 16th century and contains good stained glass. A statue of Napoleon commemorates his sojourn at Brienne from 1779 to 1784, when he was studying at the military school suppressed in 1790. In 1814 Brienne was the scene of fighting between Napoleon and the Allies (see Napoleonic Campaigns). Brewing is carried on in the town. Brienne-la-Vieille, a village 1 m. south of Brienne-le-Château, has a church of the 12th and 16th centuries with fine stained windows. The portal once belonged to the ancient abbey of Bassefontaine, the ruins of which are situated near the village.
Counts of Brienne.—Under the Carolingian dynasty Brienne-le-Château was the capital town of a French countship. In the 10th century it was captured by two adventurers named Engelbert and Gobert, and from the first of these sprang the noble house of Brienne. In 1210 John of Brienne (1148–1237) became king of Jerusalem, through his marriage with Mary of Montsserrat, heiress of the kingdom of Jerusalem. He led a crusade in Egypt which had no lasting success; and when in 1229 he was elected emperor of the East, for the period of Baldwin II.’s minority, he fought and conquered the Greek emperor John III. (Batatzes or Vatatzes). Walter V., count of Brienne and of Lecce (Apulia) and duke of Athens, fought against the Greeks and at first drove them from Thessaly, but was eventually defeated and killed near Lake Copais in 1311. His son, Walter VI, after having vainly attempted to reconquer Athens in 1331, served under Philip of Valois against the English. Having defended Florence against the Pisans he succeeded in obtaining dictatorial powers for himself in the republic; but his tyrannical conduct brought about his expulsion. He was appointed constable of France by John the Good, and was killed at the battle of Poitiers in 1356. His sister and heiress Isabelle married Walter of Enghien, and so brought Brienne to the house of Enghien, and, by his marriage with Margaret of Enghien, John of Luxembourg-St Pol (d. about 1397) became count of Brienne. The house of Luxembourg retained the countship until Margaret Charlotte of Luxembourg sold it to a certain Marpon, who ceded it to Henri Auguste de Loménie (whose wife, Louise de Béon, descended from the house of Luxemburg-Brienne) in 1640. The Limousin house of Loménie (the genealogies which trace this family to the 15th century are untrustworthy) produced many well-known statesmen, among others the celebrated cardinal Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne (1727–1794), minister of Louis XV.; and the last lords of Brienne were members of this family.
- Title: Engelbert I De Brienne
Publication: Name: https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-1-819269221-1-508014/engelbert-i-de-brienne-in-myheritage-family-trees?fspid=9C9D-CHX;
- Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: ENGELBERT [II] [de Brienne], son of ---
Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/chambrien.htm#_ftnref6;
Note: ENGELBERT [II] [de Brienne], son of --- . His existence is confirmed by the charter dated to [1027] under which "Ingelbertus…comes" donated property to Montiérender naming "quondam Ingelbertus comes predecessor noster." The dating suggests that the earlier Engelbert must have been a different person from Engelbert [I] (see above). This source does not specify that Engelbert's predecessor was his father. Comte de Brienne. 1004/08.
m firstly WANDALMODIS, daughter of --- Comte & his wife Adela de Salins. A manuscript genealogy, dated to the early 12th century, records "Letaldus comes Vesoncius et Umbertus comes Marisconensis fratres," adding "ex Umberto, Adala comitissa, ex Adala Windesmodis soror matris vestræ non german, ex Windesmode Ingelbertus et Witdo de Upione."
m secondly as her second husband, ALIX de Sens, widow of GEOFFROY de Joigny, daughter of RENARD [I] Comte de Sens & his wife ---. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines refers to the wife of "comes de Brena super Albam Engelbertus" as "comitissam Ioviniaci viduam de primo marito." She died before her husband, as the same passage refers to her son-in-law inheriting Joigny after her death and subsequently building the first castle of Joinville with the help of his father-in-law. The primary source which confirms her parentage has not yet been identified.
Comte Engelbert [II] & his first wife had two children:
- Title: Engibert I De Brienne, Count of Brienne
Publication: Name: http://racineshistoire.free.fr/LGN/PDF/Brienne.pdf;
- Title: Engelbert I° ,comte De Brienne
Publication: Name: https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-1-591669921-2-41684/engelbert-i%C2%B0-comte-de-brienne-in-myheritage-family-trees?fspid=9C9D-CHX;
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