Richard de Camville

Richard de Camville, also called Canville († 1191 Acre ) was an English baron and brief Regent of Cyprus.

Camville was of Norman descent and possessed estates in Berkshire and Oxfordshire. He was a follower of the Kings of the House of Plantagenet and founded in 1150 Combe Abbey.

In June 1190 Camville in Chinon of King Richard the Lionheart, next to Robert de Sablé and Guillaume de Forz was named one of the commanders of the fleet for the Third Crusade. Together with Sablé he then lodged from a federation of 64 ships from the coast of Gascony, to circumnavigate the Iberian Peninsula. Even before them, a squadron of the London citizenry had opened, which was invited by King Sancho I of Portugal to defend the town of Silves against the Moors. Although they were paid for it, she then began to draw, plundering by Lisbon. Once there Camville and Sablé arrived with their ships, the situation degenerated into a full-scale war against King Sancho. It was not until July 24, the squadron was published by Guillaume de Forz in the mouth of the Tagus, they finished looting. Combines the fleet sailed to Marseille, where they recorded the crusade army of King Richard.

In May of 1191, the English conquered Crusader Cyprus and took Isaac Comnenus, who had made himself emperor of Cyprus, captured. Together with Robert of Turnham Camville was entrusted by King Richard, who was ferried early June to Acre, with the reign of the island. The two rulers were defending the rule of the Crusaders against a revolt of the Cypriots due to high taxes. Shortly after, ill Camville hard and put on to the Holy Land in order to fulfill his crusading vow. He died at the siege of Acre. In July 1191, Richard the Lionheart sold the island to the Knights Templar.

Richard de Camville was married to Milicent. Your great-granddaughter was the wife of William Longespée of Salisbury.