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