Godefroy II of Bruyères

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Godefroy II von Bruyères (also: Geoffrey von Briel the Younger , English Geoffroy de Briel , Greek Γοδεφρείδος ντε Μπρυγέρ ; Γοδεφρείδος ντε Μπριέλ ) was a French knight in Franconian Greece . He was cousin or nephew of Godefroy I of Briel , lord of the barony of Karytaina in the Principality of Achaia .

Godefroy von Briel died in 1275 and in 1279 Godefroy the Younger reached Greece and tried unsuccessfully to claim the barony, which in the meantime had reverted to the principality because Godefroy the Elder had no male descendants. In the 19th century, Karl Hopf wrongly put Godefroy's arrival in Greece in 1287, but the passage from Godefroy from Italy to Greece in January 1279 is documented in the archives of the Kingdom of Sicily . Undaunted, Godefroy decided to acquire his inheritance by force: he went to Araklovon Castle , got access by pretending to be sick and opened the castle to his armed journeymen (according to tradition, four squires and a handful of local Greeks). Then he declared himself lord of the castle. Shortly afterwards the Achaeans reached the fortress and besieged it, but Godefroy had already requested the help of the Byzantine governor of Mystras . In fact, he also sent troops to help, but these were repulsed on the border of Skorta by the Frankish "Capitan von Skorta", Simon von Vidoigne . Ultimately, Godefroy had to surrender, but still received a small fief in Moraina.

Soon after his arrival and his enfeoffment, in 1279 or 1280, he married Margaret, Lady of Lisarea , with whom he had a daughter, Helena. Helena later married Vilain II von Aulnay , the Baron of Arcadia .

literature

  • Antoine Bon: La Morée franque. Recherches historiques, topographiques et archéologiques sur la principauté d'Achaïe. De Boccard, Paris 1969 ( online ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bon 1969: 105-106, 367, 700.
  2. ↑ Bon 1969: 148, 392, 398, 700.
  3. ↑ Bon 1969: 155 (note 3).
  4. ↑ Bon 1969: 148, 352-354, 370-372.
  5. ↑ Bon 1969: 148, 392, 398, 700.
  6. ↑ Bon 1969: 161-162, 700
personal data
SURNAME Bruyères, Godefroy II of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geoffrey II of Briel; Geoffrey von Briel the Younger; Γοδεφρείδος ντε Μπρυγέρ; Γοδεφρείδος ντε Μπριέλ (Greek); Godefridos; Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baron of Karytaina
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH after 1280