John I, King of Jerusalem & Emperor of Constantinople

John Count of Brienne (1205/06–1221), King John I of Jerusalem (1210–1225), Co-Emperor John Brienne of Latin Empire (1229-1237), Progenitor of the d'Acre and Beaumont branches of the House of Brienne.

JEAN de Brienne, King of Jerusalem, Emperor of Constantinople (c1170/75-27 Mar 1237)
s/o ERARD [II] de Brienne & Agnès de Montbéliard
x Tyre 1210, MARIE Queen of Jerusalem

• ISABELLE [Yolande] of Jerusalem (1211-1228)

xx Apr 1214 RITA [Stephanie] of Armenia

• son (c1216-1220)

xxx Toledo 1224 Infanta doña BERENGUELA de Castilla y León

• MARIE de Brienne (1225-1275)
• ALPHONSE de Brienne dit d'Acre (-1270)
• LOUIS de Brienne dit d'Acre (->1297)
• JEAN de Brienne dit d'Acre (-1296)

https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/JERUSALEM.htm#JeanBriennedied1237

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JEAN de Brienne, son of ERARD [II] de Brienne & his wife Agnès de Montbéliard [Montfaucon] ([1170/75]-27 Mar 1237). "Johan de Briene" is named as brother of Gauthier de Brienne by William of Tyre (Continuator), after his brother Guillaume[311]. "Gualterius comes Brene" donated property to Beaulieu (Aube) by charter dated 1194 with the consent of "Willelmi et Johannis fratrum eius"[312]. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "Iohannis frater eiusdem comitis [Galteri comitis Briennensis" when recording that he succeeded as Comte de Brienne after the death of his brother[313]. "Johannes comes Brene" donated property to Basse-Fontaine by charter dated Apr 1210[314]. His first marriage was arranged by Philippe II King of France, who gave him a dower of 40,000 silver pounds, a sum which was equalled by Pope Innocent III[315]. He landed at Acre 13 Sep 1210, was married to his first wife the next day, and was crowned 3 Oct 1210 at Tyre as JEAN King of Jerusalem by Albert Patriarch of Jerusalem[316]. "Iohannes…Latinorum Ierusalem rex decimus et comes Brena et domina Maria uxor mea regina" donated property to the church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem by charter dated 1 Jul 1211[317]. He retained the bailiship of the kingdom of Jerusalem after the death of his first wife[318], nominally in the name of his daughter. After a long siege, and with the help of western armies which were part of the Fifth Crusade, Damietta in Egypt was captured 5 Nov 1219 and added to the territory of the kingdom of Jerusalem[319]. Jean left the crusade in Feb 1220, intending to visit Armenia to claim the throne in the name of his second wife following the death of her father, but as both she and their infant son died before he sailed for Cilicia he had no further claim and abandoned the journey[320]. He arrived back with the Fifth Crusade 6 Jul 1221, which proceeded to march further into Egypt but was forced to retreat and return Damietta 8 Sep 1221[321]. After appointing Eudes de Montbéliard as regent, King Jean sailed from Acre in autumn 1222, to find a suitable husband for his daughter. He agreed to her marriage with Friedrich II King of Germany on condition that he continued as regent of Jerusalem for life. Matthew Paris records that “Johannes de Brennes rex Jerusalem et magister superioris Hospitalis fratrum Jerusalem” visited England “circa octavas Apostolorum Petri et Pauli” to seek help for the relief of “Terræ Sanctæ”[322]. His son-in-law reneged on his promise relating to the throne of Jerusalem immediately after his wedding and declared himself king of Jerusalem in 1225[323]. He was appointed regent of the Latin empire of Constantinople, by agreement at Perugia in Apr 1229, and was crowned JEAN Emperor of Constantinople on his arrival in the city in 1231. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines records the death in 1237 in Constantinople of "rex Iohannes"[324].

1. m firstly (Tyre 1210) MARIE Queen of Jerusalem, daughter of CORRADO Marchese di Monferrato & his third wife Isabelle Queen of Jerusalem (Tyre Summer 1192-1212). .. ...
2. m secondly ([23/30] Apr 1214) RITA [Stephanie] of Armenia, daughter of LEWON I King of Armenia & his first wife Isabelle --- (after 1195-[Acre] [Jun] 1220). .. ...
3. m thirdly (Toledo 1224) Infanta doña BERENGUELA de Castilla y León, daughter of don ALFONSO IX King of León & his second wife Infanta doña Berenguela de Castilla (1204-Constantinople 12 Apr 1237, bur Constantinople). .. ...

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In the Image: The coronation of John of Brienne as King of Jerusalem, with Maria of Montferrat, from a late 13th century MS of the Histoire d'Outremer, painted in Acre. (Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Florence).

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

John of Brienne (c. 1170 – 27 March 1237) was a French nobleman who became John I King of Jerusalem by marriage, and was later invited to become John I Latin Emperor of Constantinople.

He was the second son of Erard II, count of Brienne, in Champagne, and of Agnes de Montfaucon. Destined originally for the Church, he had preferred to become a knight, and in forty years of tournaments and fights he had won himself a considerable reputation, when in 1208 envoys came from the Holy Land to ask Philip Augustus, king of France, to select one of his barons as husband to the heiress and ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Philip selected John of Brienne, and promised to support him in his new dignity. In 1210, John married the heiress (Mary) Maria (daughter of Isabella and Conrad of Montferrat), assuming the title of king in right of his wife. In 1211, after some desultory operations, he concluded a five years' truce with Malik-el-Adil; in 1212 he lost his wife, who left him a daughter, Yolande (also known as Isabella); soon afterwards he married the princess Stephanie, daughter of Leo II of Armenia.

During the Fifth Crusade (1218-1221) he was a prominent figure. The legate Pelagius of Albano, however, claimed the command; and insisting on the advance from Damietta, in spite of John's warnings, he refused to accept the favourable terms of the sultan, as the king advised, until it was too late. After the failure of the crusade, King John came to the West to obtain help for his kingdom. In 1223 he met Pope Honorius III and the emperor Frederick II at Ferentino, where, in order that he might be connected more closely with the Holy Land, Frederick was betrothed to John's daughter Isabella, now heiress of the kingdom. After the meeting at Ferentino, John went to France and England, finding little consolation; and thence he travelled to Santiago de Compostela, where King Alfonso IX of Leon offered him the hand of one of his daughters and the promise of his kingdom. John passed over Alfonso's eldest daughter and heiress in favor of a younger daughter, Berenguela of Leon. After a visit to Germany he returned to Rome (1225). Here he received a demand from Frederick II (who had now married Isabella) that he should abandon his title and dignity of king, which, so Frederick claimed, had passed to himself along with the heiress of the kingdom. John, though fifty or fifty-five years of age, was still vigorous enough to revenge himself on Frederick, by commanding the papal troops which attacked southern Italy during the emperor's absence on the Sixth Crusade (1228-1229).

In 1229, John was invited by the barons of the Latin Empire of Constantinople to become emperor-regent, on condition that Baldwin of Courtenay should marry his second daughter and succeed him. For nine years he ruled in Constantinople, and in 1235, with a few troops, he repelled a great siege of the city by John III Doukas Vatatzes, emperor of Nicaea, and Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria.

After this last feat of arms, which has perhaps been exaggerated by the Latin chroniclers, who compare him to Hector and the Maccabees, John died in the habit of a Franciscan friar. An aged paladin, somewhat uxorious and always penniless, he was a typical knight errant, whose wanderings led him all over Europe, and planted him successively on the thrones of Jerusalem and Constantinople.

Marriages and issue

John of Brienne married three times. By his first wife, Marie of Montferrat, he had one child, Yolande, later Queen of Jerusalem. He had also one child by his second wife, Stephanie of Armenia, a son named as successor in Armenia, but died in childhood. By his third wife, Berenguela of Leon, he had four children:

1. Marie of Brienne (1225-1275), who married Emperor Baldwin II of Constantinople.

2. Alphonso of Brienne (c. 1228-1270), who married Marie d'Issoudon, countess of Eu, and became count of Eu in right of his wife, and was also Great Chamberlain of France.

3. Jean (John) de Brienne (c. 1230-1296), who in 1258 became Grand Butler of France. Married as his first wife, Jeanne, daughter of Geoffrey VI, Viscount of Chateaudun, and as his second wife, Marie de Coucy, widow of King Alexander II of Scotland. Had one daughter, Blanche by his first marriage.

4. Louis of Acre (c. 1235-1263), who married Agnes of Beaumont and became Viscount of Beaumont in her right. His children included Henry de Beaumont, Earl of Buchan, an ancestor of England's Royal House of Lancaster.

References

• Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Lines: 114-28, 120-29
• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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Not really sourced father of Agnese Tiepolo (the 1st wife of Lorenzo Tiepolo, 46th doge of Venice)
as hypothesized by [2019]http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/lorenzo-tiepolo_(Dizionario-Biografico)

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Portrait of the coronation of John of Brienne as King of Jerusalem, with Maria of Montferrat, from a late 13th century MS of the Histoire d'Outremer, painted in Acre. (Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Florence).

John of Brienne (c. 1155 – 27 March 1237) was a French nobleman who became King of Jerusalem by marriage, and ruled the Latin Empire of Constantinople as regent.

Jean de Candia-Nevers was the second son of Erard II, count of Brienne, in Champagne, and of Agnes de Montfaucon. Destined originally for a clerical career, he had preferred to become a knight, and in forty years of tournaments and fights he had won himself a considerable reputation, when in 1208 envoys came from the Holy Land to ask Philip Augustus, king of France, to select one of his barons as husband to the heiress and ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Philip selected John of Brienne, and promised to support him in his new dignity. In 1210, John married the heiress (Mary) Maria (daughter of Isabella and Conrad of Montferrat), assuming the title of king in right of his wife. In 1211, after some desultory operations, he concluded a five years' truce with Malik-el-Adil; in 1212 he lost his wife, who left him a daughter, Yolande (also known as Isabella); soon afterwards he married the princess Stephanie, daughter of Leo II of Armenia.

During the Fifth Crusade (1218–1221) he was a prominent figure. The legate Pelagius of Albano, however, claimed the command; and insisting on the advance from Damietta, in spite of John's warnings, he refused to accept the favourable terms of the sultan, as the king advised, until it was too late. After the failure of the crusade, King John came to the West to obtain help for his kingdom. In 1223 he met Pope Honorius III and the emperor Frederick II at Ferentino, where, in order that he might be connected more closely with the Holy Land, Frederick was betrothed to John's daughter Isabella, now heiress of the kingdom. After the meeting at Ferentino, John went to France and England, finding little consolation; and thence he travelled to Santiago de Compostela, where King Alfonso IX of Leon offered him the hand of one of his daughters and the promise of his kingdom. John passed over Alfonso's eldest daughter and heiress in favor of a younger daughter, Berenguela of Leon. After a visit to Germany he returned to Rome (1225). Here he received a demand from Frederick II (who had now married Isabella) that he should abandon his title and dignity of king, which, so Frederick claimed, had passed to himself along with the heiress of the kingdom. John, though fifty or fifty-five years of age, was still vigorous enough to avenge himself on Frederick, by commanding the papal troops which attacked southern Italy during the emperor's absence on the Sixth Crusade (1228–1229).

In 1229, John was invited by the barons of the Latin Empire of Constantinople to become emperor-regent, on condition that Baldwin of Courtenay should marry his second daughter and succeed him. For nine years he ruled in Constantinople, and in 1235, with a few troops, he repelled a great siege of the city by John III Doukas Vatatzes, emperor of Nicaea, and Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria, killing around 10,000 of the enemy single-handedly at the age of eighty.[1]

After this last feat of arms, which has perhaps been exaggerated by the Latin chroniclers, who compare him to Hector, Roland and the Maccabees, John died in the habit of a Franciscan friar. An aged paladin, he was around 80 years old, somewhat uxorious and always penniless, he was a typical knight errant, whose wanderings led him all over Europe, and planted him successively on the thrones of Jerusalem and Constantinople.

John of Brienne married three times. By his first wife, Marie of Montferrat, he had one child, Yolande, later Queen of Jerusalem. He had also one child by his second wife, Stephanie of Armenia, a son named as successor in Armenia, but died in childhood. By his third wife, Berenguela of Leon, he had four children:

Marie of Brienne (1225–1275), who married Emperor Baldwin II of Constantinople. Alphonso of Brienne (c. 1228–1270), who married Marie d'Issoudon, countess of Eu, and became count of Eu in right of his wife, and was also Great Chamberlain of France. Jean (John) de Brienne (c. 1230–1296), who in 1258 became Grand Butler of France. Married as his first wife, Jeanne, daughter of Geoffrey VI, Viscount of Chateaudun, and as his second wife, Marie de Coucy, widow of King Alexander II of Scotland. Had one daughter, Blanche by his first marriage. Louis of Acre (c. 1235–1263), who married Agnes of Beaumont and became Viscount of Beaumont in her right. His children included Henry de Beaumont, Earl of Buchan, an ancestor of England's Royal House of Lancaster.

Notes: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Hy8OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1082&lpg=PA108...

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (Eleventh ed.). Cambridge University Press.  

John, byname JOHN OF BRIENNE, French JEAN DE BRIENNE (b. c. 1148--d. March 1237, Constantinople), count of Brienne who became titular king of Jerusalem (1210-29) and Latin emperor of Constantinople (1231-37).

A penniless younger son of the French count Erard II of Brienne and Agnes of Montbéliard, John passed most of his life as a minor noble until befriended by King Philip II Augustus of France, who arranged for him to marry Mary (Marie) of Montferrat, queen of the crusader state of Jerusalem, in 1210. John reached the Palestinian town of Acre on Sept. 13, 1210, married Mary the following day, and was crowned at Tyre on October 3. Mary died in 1212, and John was named regent for their infant daughter, Yolande de Brienne, who inherited the crown as Isabella II. In 1214 John married Princess Stephanie of Armenia, daughter of the Armenian king Leo II, and later had a son by her.

As regent, John arranged a five-year truce with al-Malik al-'Adil, sultan of Egypt and Syria, in July 1212, and during the truce he persmacded Pope Innocent III to launch the Fifth Crusade in support of his daughter's kingdom. In 1218 he joined the crusading force from the West in an expedition against the Egyptian port of Damietta. After quarrelling with the crusade leader, the cardinal legate Pelagius, John left Egypt in February 1220, returning in July 1221 to witness the humiliating defeat of the crusaders and the abandonment of the siege of Damietta.

Stephanie died in 1219; John then married Berengaria, daughter of Ferdinand III of Castile, and in 1225 gave his daughter Isabella in marriage to the Holy Roman emperor Frederick II, trying to retain his rights as regent of the kingdom of Jerusalem. Immediately following the marriage, however, Frederick began to contest these rights.

In 1228 John was invited to Constantinople to be regent and co-emperor with the young Baldwin II and arranged a match between Baldwin and his four-year-old daughter by Berengaria. Crowned in 1231, John helped fend off attacks by the Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II and the Nicaean emperor John III Vatatzes, but shortly before his death he was forced to appeal to the West for help. [Encyclopaedia Britannica CD '97]

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King of Jerusalem 1210-1212, ruled from Acre since Saracens had Jerusalem. [Burke's Peerage]

Sources: 1.Title: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley {1999} Repository: Media: Book Page: 227 2.Title: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten; W. K. Prinz von Isenburg {1975} Page: II:47, 136 3.Title: Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom; GE Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd {2000} Repository: Media: Book Page: V:168 4.Title: Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families; Douglas Richardson {2004} Page: Brienne 5

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References

1. ENGLISH: John of Brienne http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Brienne
   
2. FRENCH: Jean de Brienne http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_Brienne
3. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4104/jean-de_brienne
4. https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/nfralaoncou.htm#HumbelineBaudement...
5. Perry, Guy. The Briennes: The Rise and Fall of a Champenois Dynasty in the Age of the Crusades, c. 950-1356. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2018. < GoogleBooks >
6. A History of the Counts of Brienne (950 – 1210) by Dana Celest Asmoui Ismail. Royal Holloway, University of London (2013) Doctor of Philosophy thesis.< PDF >
7. Jotischky, Andrew. 2015. “Guy Perry, John of Brienne. King of Jerusalem, Emperor of Constantinople c.1175–1237. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. Xiv, 221. ISBN 978 1 10704 310 7.” Crusades 14 (1): 248–50. doi:10.1080/28327861.2015.12220374. " ... Crusading was a Brienne family tradition. John's father Count Erard II had taken part in the Second Crusade with his own father [Walter ll of Brienne] and died in 191 at Acre. .."
8. http://genealogy.euweb.cz/brienne/brienne1.html C2. Cte Evrard I de Brienne, went on Crusade ca 1097, +1114/25; m.Alix, dau.of Andre de Montdidier, sn de Ramerupt D1. Cte Gautier II de Brienne, sn de Ramerupt, took the cross 1147, +ca 1161; 1m: N, a dau.of Andre de Baudement; 2m: N de Soissons, probably dau.of Cte Jean de Soissons; 3m: 1137 Humbeline de Troyes; 4m: 1146 Adelais N
9. Brook, Lindsay. Bohemund of Brienne, Prince of Rascia, Alleged Ancestor of Bajamonte Tiepolo < link > This article attempts to shed some light on the ancestry of Bajamonte Tiepolo, failed leader of a putsch against the Venetian Republic in 1310. His forename seems to be unique among members of the oligarchs of Venice. No firm conclusions can as yet be drawn. Some of the more fanciful suggestions can, however, be questioned or even dismissed. It is moreover proposed that ‘Rascia’ is a red-herring, and that the enigmatic ‘Bohemund’ came from elsewhere in the Balkans. This article includes a brief reassessment of the chronology of the life of Jean de Brienne, to whom Bohemund is alleged to be related.
10. WikiTree contributors, "Jean (Brienne) de Brienne (1168-1237)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brienne-4 : accessed 18 December 2024). cites
    1. Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. I p. 536
    2. Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. II. p. 116
    3. Wikipedia: John of Brienne < link >
    4. Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700, 7th ed., Baltimore MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1992. Access online (search only) at < GoogleBooks >, Line 114, pp. 104-105: b.c. 1168, d.21 Mar 1237, parents, m. as 3rd wife Berengaria of Leon in 1223, she d.12 Apr 1237; m1. 15 Sep 1210 Mary Montferrat and became King of Jerusalem, m2. 1214 Stephanie of Armenia; emperor of Constantinople 1228; Line 120, p.107.
    5. Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004; [database on-line] Ancestry.com, Provo, UT, USA: < Ancestry.com > Operations, Inc., 2006: #467 p.385-6.
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    3. [S02081] ~Wikipedia Website .
12. Review: "John of Brienne" by Guy Perry < link >
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14. Roberts, Gary Boyd. The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., (2004). Section: Immigrant Descendants of High Medieval Kings. Page 385. < Ancestry.com >; (document attached.) "Descent from Alfonso IX, king of Leon and Galicia & Berenguela I la Grande, reina de Castilla."