Gottfried II (Joinville)

Gottfried II of Joinville (French: Geoffroy II ; † 1096 ) was Lord of Joinville and comes Ioviniaci ( Count of Joigny ?).

He was a son of Gottfried I von Joinville and Blanka von Reynel. Like his father and grandfather, he ruthlessly enriched himself, mostly through blackmail, from the church property entrusted to him for protection. With him, the lords of Joinville increasingly approached the Counts of Champagne , who made him their mediator for their legal disputes with the abbots of the monasteries of Champagne .

Gottfried also entered into an important marriage for the Joinvilles. He married Hoderine von Courtenay, whose brother Joscelin von Courtenay later rose as Count of Edessa to become a famous crusader prince. Through her mother, Elisabeth von Montlhéry , she came from one of the most powerful families in the Île-de-France .

Your children were:

• Gottfried († before his father)
• Rainald (last mentioned in a document on May 29, 1103), called comes Ioviniaci (perhaps identical with Count Rainald III of Joigny )
• Roger († around 1124) Lord of Joinville
• Hedwig († after 1141) ∞ Gobert III. from Apremont
• Laure, abbess

literature

• Jules Simonnet: Essai sur l'histoire de la généalogie des sires de Joinville (1008-1386) accompagné de chartes . F. Dangien, Langres 1875, pp. 28-38 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

predecessor	Office	successor
Gottfried I./III.	Lord of Joinville 1080-1096	Roger
Gottfried I./III.	Count of Joigny 1080-1096	Rainald III.