Balduin III. (Guînes)

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Balduin III. (French: Baudouin III ; † after May 1244 ) was Count of Guînes . He was the son of Count Arnold II († 1220) and Beatrix von Bourbourg.

Battle of Monmouth 1233: Richard Marshal pushes the knight Baldwin de Guisnes from the saddle in a duel. (contemporary illustration from the Chronica Majora by Matthew Paris)

Count Balduin III. von Guînes was probably identical with a Flemish knight named Baldwin de Guisnes , who was mentioned in the chronicles of the English historians Roger von Wendover ( Flores Historiarum ) and Matthäus Paris ( Chronica Majora ). According to the tradition of Wendover, the knight Baldwin in England belonged to King Henry III's followers, which consisted mainly of foreigners ( Poitevins and Flemings ) . from whom he was appointed castellan of Monmouth Castle . During the rebellion of Richard Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke , who revolted against the influence of foreigners on the king, Baldwin first conquered Marshal's castle Usk , but was then attacked by Marshal in Monmouth on November 25, 1233. A fierce battle broke out in front of the castle. Baldwin almost defeated Marshal in a duel, but was shot from his horse by an opposing archer and seriously injured. Wendover's continuer and marshal admirer, Matthäus Paris, however, drew a different representation of the fight in that Baldwin was knocked off his horse by Marshal in a knightly fight with a lance. Paris also made a drawing for this (see picture).

In 1238, Baldwin joined the English contingent that King Henry III. was sent to Italy under the leadership of Henry de Trubleville . There they were supposed to support Emperor Friedrich II , a brother-in-law of the English king, in the fight against the Lombard League.

Baldwin is mentioned for the last time in a document from May 1244 in which he makes a donation to his sister, the abbess of Bounham. He was married to Mathilde de Fiennes ( Mahaut de Fiennes ), with whom he had several children, including the son Arnold III. (* 1225; † 1283).

In the same year 1244, according to other sources not until 1245, he is said to have died.

Sources and individual references

  • Roger of Wendover, The Flowers of History , ed. by John Allen Giles (1849), Vol. 2, pp. 574-575
  • Matthäus Paris, Chronica Majora , ed. by Henry Richards Luard in: Rolls Series 57 (1876), Vol. 3, pp. 255-256
  1. ^ History of the Magna Carta: Restoring royal authority. Retrieved May 27, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Alexander Croke: The Genealogical History originally of the Croke Family, named Le Blount , Volume 1, 1823, pages 64-65: archive.org .

literature

  • Walther Kienast : The German Princes in the Service of the Western Powers until the Death of Philip the Fair of France (1931), vol. 2, p. 85
  • Suzanne Lewis: The art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora , in: California studies in the history of art 21 (1987), pp. 231-232
  • Björn KU Weiler: Henry III of England and the Staufen Empire, 1216-1272 (2006), p. 79

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predecessor Office successor
Arnold II Count of Guînes
1220–1244 		Arnold III
personal data
SURNAME Balduin III.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baudouin III de Guînes, Baldwin de Guisnes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Guînes
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH after May 1244