Isabelle de Villehardouin

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Isabelle de Villehardouin (* 1263 ; † January 23, 1312 ) was Princess of Achaia and Morea from 1289 to 1307. She was the older daughter of Wilhelm II of Villehardouin , Prince of Achaia and Morea, and Anna Komnene Dukaina.

Her father, in May 1267 Charles of Anjou , King of Sicily and Baldwin II. , Emperor of Constantinople Opel the agreement of Viterbo , won by Charles sovereignty over Achaia. In addition, it was decided to marry off the heirs of Wilhelm and Baldwin to Charles' children. The wedding between Isabelle and Philippe d'Anjou (* 1256) took place on May 28, 1271 in Trani . Philippe became titular king of Thessaloniki in 1274 , but died in 1277 before his father and without descendants. According to the provisions of the Viterbo Agreement, Charles was now the heir of Achaia.

Wilhelm von Villehardouin died in 1278, and from then on Achaia was ruled from Naples. Isabelle married a second marriage on September 16, 1289, and her husband became Florence of Hainaut . King Karl II. , King of Naples since 1285 after the death of Charles I, then returned Achaia to Isabelle with the stipulation that Isabelle, if she survived Florence, may not remarry without the consent of Charles II. Florence of Hainaut managed to make a peace with Byzantium in the Treaty of Klarentza in 1290. The treaty lasted until 1293 when the Greeks conquered Kalamata . In 1296 the castle of Agios Georgios in Arcadia was also lost. Florence besieged the conquered castle, but died on January 23, 1297 before the siege was achieved. The daughter of Isabelle and Florence was Mathilde von Hennegau (* 1293; † 1331), princess of Achaia and Morea, who married four times:

  1. Guy de la Roche († 1308), Duke of Athens
  2. 1313 Louis de Bourgogne (* 1297; † 1316), titular king of Thessaloniki and prince of Achaia
  3. 1318 (divorced 1321) Jean d'Anjou (* 1294; † 1336), Duke of Durazzo and Prince of Achaia
  4. Hugues de La Palice

Widow again, she married Philip of Savoy (* 1278, † 1334) in Rome on February 12, 1301 . Philip intended to recapture Laconia from Byzantium, but his authoritarian character quickly brought him into conflict with the country's nobility. After trying to assert himself against the barons, he had to give in in 1304 and accept a parliament. In 1306 Philip and Isabelle were called to Naples, where Philip was accused of not having sufficiently taken part in a campaign by Charles against the despotate of Epirus ; Isabella, in turn, was accused of not having obtained the necessary consent from Charles for her third marriage. On May 5, 1306 Achaia was taken from the couple and given to Charles' son Philip I of Taranto . Philip of Piedmont gave up his claim to Achaia on May 11, 1307 and received the county of Alba (Piedmont) . Isabelle separated from him and fled to Hainaut , the home of her second husband, from where she continued her claims.

Children of Isabelle and Philip were:

  • Marie (* 1301; † young)
  • Alice († 1368), ⚭ I Manfred de Carretto, Margrave of Savona, ⚭ II 1354 Antelmo d'Urtières
  • a daughter, ⚭ 1306 à Charles d'Anjou (X 1315), Prince of Achaia ( House of Anjou )
  • Marguerite (* 1303; † after 1371), ⚭ 1324 Renaud, Count of Forez († 1370)

literature

  • René Grousset : L'Empire du Levant. Histoire de la Question d'Orient. Nouvelle édition revue. Payot, Paris 1949.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . First Section AG. Hermann Brockhaus, Leipzig 1867, p. 263 ( full text in Google Book Search).

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personal data
SURNAME Isabelle de Villehardouin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Princess of Achaia
DATE OF BIRTH 1263
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1312