John of Acre

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Johann von Akkon or Johann von Brienne (* 1227 , † 1296 ) was a grand cupbearer of France from the House of Brienne .

He was a son of John of Brienne , King of Jerusalem , and Princess Berenguela of León († 1237), a daughter of King Alfonso IX. of Castile and Leon . His half-sister was Queen Isabella II of Jerusalem .

Together with his other siblings, he was transferred to the court of King Ludwig IX in 1244 . sent to France. In 1258 he was appointed royal grand cupid and was entrusted with administrative tasks in Champagne . He took part in the Seventh Crusade (hence his nickname of Acre ), on which his brother Alfonso and the king died. From King Philip III. he was sent to Castile in 1274 to represent the rights of the Princes de la Cerda.

In 1257 Johann married Marie de Coucy , the widow of the Scottish King Alexander II. As queen widow, his wife was entitled to considerable income from the Scottish crown property, and with the consent of the English King Henry III. Johann was allowed to travel to Scotland in 1257. The Regency Council, which is responsible for the underage Scottish King Alexander III. led the government, evidently did not want to anger either the English king or the French king and granted John the income due to him. However, he was back in France by February 1259 at the latest. Neither he nor the Queen Dowager continued to influence Scottish politics. In 1268, Johann separated from Marie, whereupon the Scottish king cut his income and from then on Johann paid a pension. Only after Marie's death in 1284 did Johann Johanna von Châteaudun , mistress of Château-du-Loir and daughter of Vice-Count Gottfried VI, marry . von Châteaudun , widow of Count Johann I von Montfort . Both marriages remained childless.

literature

  • Louis Carolus-Barré, Henri Platelle: Le procès de canonisation de Saint Louis (1272–1297). Essai de reconstitution. École Française de Rome, Rome 1994, ISBN 2-7283-0300-2 , p. 77 ( Collection de l'École française de Rome 195).

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Baldwin of Avesnes ?: Extraits de la Chronique attribuée a Baudoin d'Avesnes , in: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 21 (1840), p. 179
  2. ↑ DER Watt: The minority of Alexander III of Scotland . In: Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Vol. 21 (1971), p. 19.

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SURNAME John of Acre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES John of Brienne; Jean de Brienne; Jean d'Arce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Grand cupbearer of France
DATE OF BIRTH 1227
DATE OF DEATH 1296