Guillaume III. des barres
Guillaume III. des Barres (* around 1185 / 90 ; † 15. November 1249 in Nicosia ) was a French Knight and Crusader . He was the son of Guillaume II. Des Barres , Count of Rochefort , from whom he inherited the castle of Oissery .
Through his mother, Amicia de Beaumont, Guillaume was a half-brother of Simon IV. De Montfort , whom he accompanied on the Albigensian Crusade . In the Battle of Muret (September 12, 1213) he fought as a troop leader. In 1216 he supported Crown Prince Louis VIII the Lion in the invasion of England, but was defeated together with Robert von Courtenay in a naval battle off Sandwich in August 1217.
Together with his great-nephew, Count Johann I von Montfort , Guillaume took part in the Sixth Crusade under King Ludwig IX. part of France . Both fell ill while the army was wintering in Cyprus from 1248 to 1249 and died shortly afterwards.
His first marriage was to Countess Beatrix von Chalon († 1227), the heir to Count Wilhelm II of Chalon . His second wife Heloise Britaud, a daughter of Herr von Nangis, with whom he had children.
Web links
- Guillaume des Barres at fmg.ac (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vincent de Beauvais , Speculum Historiale xxxii , 89 (Strasbourg, Johann Mentelin 1473)
- ↑ Baldwin von Avesnes , Chronicon Hanoniense , ed. by Johannes Heller in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS 25 (1880), p. 454
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guillaume III. des barres |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lord of Oissery and La Ferté-Alais |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1185 |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 1249 |
| Place of death | Nicosia |