Marie of Brienne

Maria de Brienne (* 1224, † 1275 ) was a Latin Empress of Constantinople Opel. She was a daughter of John of Brienne, king of Jerusalem, and his third wife, Berengaria of León. Her half sister was the Queen Isabella II of Jerusalem.

Maria's father was in 1228, elected by the Latin barons of Greece as co-emperor and regent of underage Emperor, Baldwin II of Courtenay. This dynastic rule was secured by the engagement of the first four years of Mary with Emperor Baldwin II. The marriage was consummated in 1234 and 1237, her father died, after which Baldwin was able to take the undivided rule.

In 1248 Maria traveled to Cyprus, where just King Louis IX. wintered from France with his crusade army. They lost in a storm, the ship that transported their entire wardrobe; it was pushed towards Acre. She landed in the harbor of Paphos, where she was received by her champagnischen compatriot Jean de Joinville, the new materials for the repair of her dress got her immediately. The knight Philippe de Nanteuil had complained to the king and Joinville accused of having brought about the other knights shame because he did not comply with their dresses for the empress. In their conversations with the King Maria asked him for a military support of about three hundred knights to fight against the Byzantine emperor of Nicaea. King Louis IX. refused this request from, however, because he wanted to use his powers for the crusade against the Muslims. After the Crusaders were broken up in May 1249 to Egypt, Mary traveled to France, where she married her brother, John of Acre, with Joan of Châteaudun that of Count Johann I von Montfort 's widow, who had died in April 1249 in Cyprus.

After 1261 Opel Constantinople was conquered by the Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, Maria and her husband went into exile, first in Euboea and then to France. For their renunciation of the Margraviate of Namur in 1263, she received a severance payment of Guy of Dampierre. After her husband Charles of Anjou in 1267 negotiated with the Treaty of Viterbo, the couple moved to Italy. There Mary died in 1275 and was buried in Assisi.

From their marriage, the son of Philip of Courtenay emerged.

Source

• Joinville, II, § 4, ed. Ethel Wedgwood (1906 )

• Empress
• Kaiser ( Latin Empire )
• House of Brienne
• House France - Courtenay
• Frenchman
• Born in 1224
• Died 1275
• Woman