Florent de Ville

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Florent de Ville († before 1245) was a French knight and crusader in the early 13th century.

The coat of arms of Florent de Ville was described by Baudouin d'Avesnes.

He was a son of Jean I. de Ville and his wife Alix. Around the year 1200, Florent inherited his father in the possession of Ville ( Dép: Oise ) and from 1212 he is also called in the possession of Nouvion-sur-Comte ( Dép: Aisne ). He held his possessions as a fiefdom of the bishop-counts of Noyon , but he became a ligious vassal of King Philip II August . In 1245 his son Jean II. De Ville is mentioned in this property.

Florent de Ville became known as a crusader in the Albigensian Crusade . The Chronicle of Baudouin d'Avesnes named him one of the outstanding actors in the Battle of Muret (September 12, 1213), in which the Crusaders under Simon de Montfort achieved a decisive victory against the Princes of Languedoc and King Peter II of Aragon . During the battle, together with the knight Alain de Roucy, he attacked the Aragonese king and his closest entourage. In doing so, Florent killed the Aragonese knight who wore the armor and the king's banner, whereupon the knights of Aragon, believing they had lost their king, fled, which meant victory for the crusaders. In fact, there was only a simple knight in the royal armor, while King Peter II fought in an anonymous armor. The king was ultimately killed in a duel by Roucy, although he still revealed himself.

Like Roucy, Florent is mentioned on July 27, 1214 as a participant in the Battle of Bouvines .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maximilien Melleville: Dictionnaire historique, généalogique et géographique du département de l'Aisne , 1857
  2. ^ François Clément , Nicolas Viton de Saint-Allais , Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Jullien de Courcelles : L'Art de vérifier les dates des faits historiques, des inscriptions, et autres anciens monuments [...] , part 2, volume 12, 1818
  3. ^ Bulletin trimestriel de la Société des antiquaires de Picardie , Volume 6, years 1856-57-58
  4. ^ John W. Baldwin: The government of Philip Augustus: foundations of French royal power in the Middle Ages (Paris, Fayard, 1991)
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SURNAME Florent de Ville
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lord of Ville and Nouvion-sur-Comte, crusaders
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH between 1213 and 1245