Milo IV, lord of Le Puiset

Milon IV (* 1168-1174; . † 17-18 August 1219 in front of Damietta ) was a Count of Bar-sur -Seine, Viscount of Chartres and Mr. Le Puiset. He was a son of Hugo IV of Le Puiset († 1189 ) and Countess Petronille of Bar -sur -Seine.

He was married with Helis end of Joigny, a daughter of Count Rainald IV of Joigny and Adele de Nevers. They had at least one son, Walter ( Gaucher ).

Milon participated on the side of Philip Augustus in the fight against Richard the Lionheart. With the defeat at the Battle of Gisors in 1198 he was one of those knights who overthrew the king in the Epte. Against John Lackland, he distinguished himself in 1204 in the conquest of Normandy, and was present at the capture of Rouen. In the Historia Albigensis of Pierre des Vaux -de- Cernay he is named as a participant of the Albigensian Crusade, where he was involved in the 1209 siege of Béziers and Carcassonne. In the War of Succession of Champagne from 1215 he stood on the side of the Countess Blanka and her son Theobald IV against Erard of Brienne. 1217 broke Milon and his son for a crusade of Damietta on (fifth crusade ). In the course of the fighting before Damietta, the son and heir was killed on July 30, 1219. Milon himself died in August of the same year before the city was conquered.

The county of Bar-sur -Seine had inherited Milon in equal parts to his sister Margaret and a niece Laure de Sennecey, both sold their shares later to the Count of Champagne. The viscounty Chartres and Le Puiset went to his nephew Simon de Rochefort.

During the siege of Damietta died in 1218 and the Templar Grand Master Guillaume de Chartres. According to the Chronicle of Cologne scholastic Thomas Olivier ( Historia Damiatina ), who had taken part in the crusade, the Grand Master was a son Milons ( Venti etiam et filius ejus Barri ... Comes frater Willelmus de Carnoto magister military templi ). From a genealogical perspective, this would be virtually impossible, unless the Grand Master would not have been older than 25 when he took office in 1210. Milons known son Walter was old enough to witness a donation of his father at a religious institution in Châteaudun until the year 1199. Possible but would be a filiation of the Grand Master by Count Milon III. († 1151 ), which he would then have been an uncle Milons IV.