Walter IV, Count of Brienne

Walter IV of Brienne ( frz: Gauthier, ital: Gualtiero, * 1205, † 1246 ) was a Count of Brienne and Jaffa.

Life

He was the son of Walter III. of Brienne and of Lecce Elvira.

At the time of his birth, his father lost the fight against the Hohenstaufen to the Sicilian throne and died in captivity. The Principality of Taranto and the County of Lecce were seized. Walter IV inherited only the paternal county of Brienne. As a teenager, Walter IV was sent to Outremer, where his uncle John of Brienne was Regent of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. He supported the barons under the leadership of John of Ibelin, the " old man of Beirut " in the fight against the imperial governor Richard Filangieri. Around the year 1235 he married Maria of Cyprus, daughter of King Hugo I and Alice of Champagne, which brought him the County of Jaffa as a dowry in the marriage.

Walter joined the crusade from 1239 to 1240 the Barons, in consequence of Ashkelon was recaptured and fortified. Ascalon was once owned by the County of Jaffa before it was conquered in 1187 by Saladin. Walter now but did not get back Ashkelon, since the Emperor Frederick II, this castle still sold in 1243 to the Hospitallers, who actually took the castle in possession.

1244 Walter led the army of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in the battle of La Forbie against the Egyptian army Sultan as- Salih. Against the advice of his Syrian allies al - Mansur of Homs to fix his camp and wait for the possible withdrawal of Choresmier, Walter ordered the attack. In the ensuing battle, the Christian- Syrian army was defeated. Walter was captured by the Choresmiern, tortured outside the walls of Jaffa in 1246, and finally delivered to the Egyptians after the defeat of Choresmier before Homs. He was imprisoned in Cairo and eventually murdered by merchants whose caravans he had robbed, with the consent of the Sultan.

His underage sons retreated to the royal court of her cousin who was bred to Cyprus. The county of Jaffa was awarded in 1247 to John of Ibelin. Walters eldest son John I of Brienne succeeded him as Count of Brienne. He died childless in 1261 in Cyprus. He was followed by Walters younger son Hugh of Brienne, who left in 1268 to Cyprus, settled in Southern Italy and joined Charles of Anjou, of which he eventually regained the County of Lecce.

Walters remains were only towards the end of the year 1250 by the Mamluks as a diplomatic overtures to Louis IX. released. They were buried by his cousin Marguerite de Reynel, wife of Balian of Sidon, in the church of the Hospitallers in Acre.

Itemization

  • Graf ( Brienne )
  • Graf ( Jaffa )
  • Crusaders ( crusade of the barons )
  • House of Brienne
  • Born in 1205
  • Died in 1246
  • Man
Walter III, Count of Brienne House of Hohenstaufen Hugh I of Cyprus Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor As-Salih Ayyub John of Ibelin (jurist) Hugh, Count of Brienne Balian Grenier
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