Isabella, Countess of Brienne

Isabella of Brienne († 1360 ) was Countess of Brienne and Lecce, Titularherzogin of Athens and Associate throne of the kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus.

She was the daughter of Walter V of Brienne, Duke of Athens, who was in 1311 at the Battle of Halmyros near Thebes, please. As a granddaughter of Hugh of Brienne, Count of Lecce she was a descendant of the kings of Jerusalem and Cyprus.

Her father spent most of his life in Greece, where he endeavored to the legacy of his mother, the Duchy of Athens recapture. When he was killed, fled Isabella's mother Joan de Chatillon († 1354 ), daughter of the Earl of Porcéan, with her ​​two small children to France. The family became impoverished and Isabella married Walter III. of Enghien, a Walloon knight.

Her brother Walter VI. Brienne gained a better position and the connection to the house of Plantagenet from Naples, he got some Italian fiefs back gradually. As Constable of France in 1356 he fell in the battle of Maupertuis.

Isabella survived her brother, whom she inherited. She died 1360th Her husband Walter of Enghien had already died in 1345.

As heiress of her brother, she was a few years Countess of Lecce and Brienne and carried the title of a Duchess of Athens and other securities on which it was entitled. Their legacy became her second son at Sohier of Enghien. In life, she shared the inherited countries with their numerous children.

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Isabella's brother Gauthier had left sometime around 1340 Greece, and her eldest surviving son Sohier of Enghien was apparently since 1350 Lord of Argos and Nauplia. In the division of the inheritance ( 1356-60 ) he was given the title Duke of Athens and certain rights in Argos - Nafplio. Your sixth son Guy of Enghien was given dominion of Argos and Nauplia in the inheritance and resided there from 1356 until his death 1377th Guy also introduced the title of Duke of Athens, although the title officially belonged to his older brother and his son. When Mr. Argos - Nafplio Guy was actually a vassal of his brother, the Duke of Athens.

Isabella's fourth son of Louis d'Enghien, Mr. Conversano, received in 1381 the title of Duke of Athens, as the heir of his nephew was divided.

Guys daughter Mary of Enghien, Isabella's granddaughter, married Pietro Cornaro, a Venetian. They sold the 1388 rule Argos - Nafplio to the Republic of Venice.

Their main legacy was, according to some intermediate phases, to the children of her third son, John of Enghien:

  • Peter of Enghien ( Peter the Great ), Count of Lecce, etc., died childless in 1384; his sister and her husband Raimondo del Balzo Orsini followed him to the throne
  • Mary of Enghien ( Mary II ) (* 1367, † 1446 ), Countess of Lecce, daughter of John and Bianca del Balzo. Maria married Raimondo del Balzo Orsini († 1405), Prince of Taranto in succession. 1406 she married King Ladislas of Naples († 1414).
  • Graf ( Brienne )
  • Graf ( Conversano )
  • Graf ( Lecce)
  • House of Brienne
  • Born in the 14th century
  • Died in 1360
  • Woman
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