Erard of Brienne-Ramerupt
Erard of Brienne (* 1170, † 1246 ) was Lord of Ramerupt and Venizy. He came to the house and Brienne was a claimant to the county of Champagne.
Life
Erard was a son of Andrew of Brienne, Lord of Ramerput, and Alix ( Adelais ), Lady of Venizy. His father was a famous knight of the Third Crusade, his mother a descendant of Prince Floris, a son of King Philip I of France.
He married his first wife, a certain Hélisende. After these had died before 1210, he moved in with his first cousin, John of Brienne, king of Jerusalem who was there, the Holy Land.
Travel to the Holy Land
In Acre married Érard to 1213 in second marriage the Princess Philippa of Jerusalem, who was a daughter of Count Henry II of Champagne and Queen Isabella I of Jerusalem. The marriage took place against the resistance of the Roman Curia, as the pair was related in the ninth grade to each other and, therefore, according to canon law is not ready for marriage. However, the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 loosened these rules, therefore the marriage was no longer disputed. The legitimate origin Philippa itself, however, was in doubt because the first husband of her mother, Humphrey IV of Toron, had never recognized his forced divorce.
Succession war for Champagne
Nevertheless, Philippa and Érard make an attempt to fight her father's heritage, the rich French Champagne County. The reigning Count there was Philippa's cousin, the immature Theobald IV, whose legitimacy they now set in consultation. The Gräfinnenmutter Blanche of Navarre confiscated then Erard's possession in France and sent her eunuch to take him prisoner.
1215 reached Érard and his wife Genoa, where he was expected by the count's treasurer and invited to a duel. Érard was subsequently arrested by the Genoese authorities, who presented the case of a papal commission. After five months in prison he escaped to France. There he was immediately arrested in Le Puy -en -Velay of Countess Blanka, but soon again left free because the arrest was done in an unlawful manner.
In the spring of 1216 Érard reached the Champagne, where he. Discontented barons of the country to be united and began the war against the countess and her son With the Duke Theobald I of Lorraine, he won a powerful ally. Érard accepted at the fall of 1216 the Arbitration court of King Philip II, who brokered a truce and to a postponement of the question of power to consent Count Theobald IV was. Érard but broke the ceasefire quickly, for which he was excommunicated by the Archbishop of Reims on April 25, 1217. Took place on February 2, 1218 against him and his colleagues and the excommunication of the Pope. This also led to the military intervention of the king, the Duke of Burgundy and Emperor Frederick II, who was able to capture the Duke of Lorraine in June 1218. Thus his most powerful supporter robbed Érard gave up the struggle. On November 2, 1221, he met with Countess Blanka an agreement in which he and his wife gave up their claims. In return they received from the Countess generous financial compensation and Érard even got his family possessions refunded.
The couple returned in 1222 after Outremer back. Years later rose Erard's sister, Alice of Cyprus, is also entitled to the Champagne.
Progeny
From his marriage with Philippa († 1250) Érard had several children:
- Erard of Brienne († February 8, 1250 during the sixth crusade )
- Henry of Brienne († 1248/49 during the sixth crusade ), Lord of Venizy
- Maria de Brienne ( † after 1221 ), ∞ I. ) Gaucher Nanteuil -la -Fosse ∞ II ) Hugo of Conflans
- Margaret of Brienne († 1275 ) ∞ Dirk van Beveren
- Héloïse de Brienne
- Isabella of Brienne († 1274/1277 ), ∞ Henry V, Count of Grandpré
- Joan of Brienne, ∞ 1250 Mathieu III. de Montmorency
- Sibylle of Brienne, Abbess of Ramerupt
- Alix of Brienne ( called 1245 )