Anseau de Cayeux

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Anseau de Cayeux († 1273) was a knight of the fourth crusade and briefly a regent of the Latin Empire of Constantinople . He came from the lordly family of Cayeux-sur-Mer in Picardy .

Life

The French knight, military leader and chronicler , Gottfried von Villehardouin , reports that Anseau took the cross together with Count Hugo IV of Saint-Pol in the spring of 1200. Until the conquest of Constantinople in April 1204, Anseau was again named in the Count's entourage. According to a letter from the count, Anseau was one of the knights who, after the conquest of Zara , voted for the detour of the crusade to Constantinople. After Count Hugo died in 1205, Anseau joined the entourage of Heinrich von Flanders , the younger brother of Baldwin I , who was elected emperor . After the emperor was captured by the Bulgarians in the battle of Adrianople in April 1205 , Heinrich of Flanders was appointed regent of the empire. From him Anseau was appointed commander of the Bizye garrison (today Vice ), which consisted of six other knights and a larger number of mountain troops . He then successfully defended the city against the Bulgarian ruler Kalojan (Johannitzes) , while most of the other cities of Thrace were stormed by him.

Also in the next few years Anseau was mentioned in the chronicle of Henri de Valenciennes , called Ansil de Kaeu by him , at the side of the regent and, since 1206, of the emperor Heinrich. Together with Conon de Béthune , he led unsuccessful negotiations on the Gulf of Volos with the Lombards under Ravano dalle Carceri , who refused to recognize the sovereignty of Emperor Henry.

After the death of co-emperor Johann von Brienne in March 1237, Anseau took over the reign in the empire, which was in fact limited to Constantinople, for Emperor Baldwin II, who was absent in Europe . His official title was Bailli . In this position he was replaced by Narjot de Toucy only a year later .

family

Around 1230 Anseau married the Byzantine princess Eudokia Laskarina , a daughter of the exiled emperor Theodor I Laskaris . The princess was originally betrothed to Emperor Robert , but was then cast out by him, which in turn cost him the throne.

Anseau de Cayeux was probably identical to the man Anselino de Cazeu Camerario Imperii Romanie , mentioned in a document , who stayed at the court of Charles of Anjou in Naples in 1269 and managed his daughter's inheritance there. If this is the case, he would have experienced the beginning (1204) and the end (1261) of the Latin Empire. A son of his was possibly Anseau de Chau, who served as vicar general of Charles of Anjou in Albania in 1273 and was related by marriage to the Serbian queen Jelena Anžujska (Helena of Anjou) .

literature

  • Robert Lee Wolff, Romania: The Latin Empire of Constantinople (1204-1261) (Harvard, 1947)
  • Deno John Geanakoplos: Greco-Latin Relations an the Eve of the Byzantine Restoration: The Battle of Pelagonia 1259 in: Dumbarton Oaks Papers , Vol. 7, (1953)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . First Section AG. Hermann Brockhaus, Leipzig 1867, p. 300 ( full text in Google Book Search).
  2. ↑ Annales Colonienses maximi , ed. by Georg Heinrich Pertz in MGH SS 17 (1861), p. 812
  3. ↑ L'Estoire de Eracles empereur Liv. 33, cap. XIV, in: Recueil des historiens des croisades (1859), Historiens Occidentaux II, p. 381
personal data
SURNAME Anseau de Cayeux
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ansil de Kaeu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Crusader, regent of the Latin Empire
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1273