Érard II (Brienne)

Érard II. († 1190 before Acre ) was a Count of Brienne from the House of Brienne . He was a son of Count Walter II of Brienne .

Together with his brother Andreas , Érard reached the siege of Acre in September 1189 with an advance command of the third crusade under the leadership of Count Robert II of Dreux . The brother fell there on October 4th in a battle against Saladin , in which, according to the author of the Itinerarium Regis Ricardi , Érard himself behaved like a coward and fled from the enemy. In any case, he had survived the battle, but Érard died in the course of the siege in 1190.

Érard was married to Agnes, a daughter of Count Amadeus II of Montfaucon-Montbéliard . Your children were:

• Walter III. († 1205), Count of Brienne
• Wilhelm († before 1200), Lord of Pacy-sur-Armançon ; ∞ with Eustachie, a daughter of Peter I of Courtenay
• John of Brienne († 1237), King of Jerusalem and Emperor of Constantinople
• Ida; ∞ with Arnoul de Reynel

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• Gesta Regis Henrici Secundis et Gesta Regis Ricardi Benedicti abbatis , ed. by William Stubbs in: Rolls Series 49 (1867), Vol. 2 ("Gesta")
• Roger von Hoveden , Chronica , ed. by William Stubbs in: Rolls Series 51 (1870), Vol. 3 ("Chronica")

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gesta , p. 94; Chronica , p. 20
2. ^ Itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta regis Ricardi Liber I, Cap. XXX, ed. by William Stubbs: Chronicles and Memorials of the Reign of Richard I , in: Rolls Series 38 (1864), Vol. 1, p. 71
3. ^ Gesta , pp. 96 and 148; Chronica , p. 88

predecessor	Office	successor
Walter II.	Count of Brienne 1161–1190	Walter III.