Renier of Trit
Rénier de Trith ( † after 1206) was a French crusaders of the Fourth Crusade. He was lord of Trith -Saint -Léger ( Dép North ) in the County of Hainaut.
According to Geoffrey of Villehardouin Rénier de Trith adopted on February 23, 1200 along with Count Baldwin IX. of Flanders the cross for the fourth crusade. The crusade also joined his son Rainald. Until the conquest of Constantinople Opel in April 1204 Rénier is no longer mentioned in Villehardouin, but the Count Hugo counted him IV of Saint-Pol in a letter to the circle of those crusaders after the conquest of Zara (1202 ) for a detour of the Crusade had voted to Constantinople Opel.
After Constantine Opel conquered and the Earl of Flanders was elected for the first emperor of the Latin Empire, was appointed Rénier de Trith by him for the " Duke of Philippopolis " (now Plovdiv ). In this city he was able to move with one hundred and twenty knights without a fight and with the support of the indigenous Greek population in November 1204. However, About the environs of his fief, he was unable to win control because there the Greeks revolted against the rule of the Latins, while the Bulgarians ruler Kaloyan ( Johannitzes ) were supported. After a few months deserting hundred knights, who wanted to support Emperor Baldwin at the siege of Adrian Opel. After it was defeated in April 1205 by the Bulgarians and were captured there, but the emperor, the population of Philippopolis revolted against the Latins, after which Kaloyan could occupy the town. The revolt against the Latins was particularly supported by the community of the Paulicians, whose district Rénier de Trith so let burn. After losing the city, he entrenched himself with no more than fifteen knights in the nearby castle Stenimachos (now Asenovgrad ), where he gave a three -month siege by Kaloyan stood until it was liberated in the spring of 1206 by a relief under the leadership of Villehardouin; the castle had to be abandoned, however.
During the siege had ever experienced the death of Emperor Baldwin in captivity, to which his brother and acting regent Henry was crowned the new emperor Rénier de Trith the first of the Crusaders. After the battles for Stani Machos was reported no longer Rénier de Trith.