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Jean de Brienne

Jean de Brienne

Birth
Brienne-le-Chateau, Departement de l'Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France
Death 23 Mar 1237 (aged 66–67)
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Burial
Assisi, Provincia di Perugia, Umbria, Italy
Memorial ID 4104 · View Source
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Crusader. He was a French knight who became King of Jerusalem by marriage and ruled the Latin Empire of Constantinople Turkey, as regent. He was a prominent figure after the 5th and 6th for France when he was invited in 1229, 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. He then ruled in Constantinople and in 1235, with a few troops, he repelled a siege of the city by John III Vatatzes, Emperor of Nicaea, leading a successful cavalry charge which killed some 10,000 enemy soldiers.

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  1. Memorials
  2. Region
  3. Europe
  4. Italy
  5. Umbria
  6. Provincia di Perugia
  7. Assisi
  8. Basilica di San Francesco d'Assisi
  9. Jean de Brienne
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  • Added: 6 Dec 1998
  • Find A Grave Memorial 4104
  • Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed ), memorial page for Jean de Brienne (1170–23 Mar 1237), Find A Grave Memorial no. 4104, citing Basilica di San Francesco d'Assisi, Assisi, Provincia di Perugia, Umbria, Italy ; Maintained by Find A Grave .