Mathilde of Hainaut
Mathilde von Hennegau (born November 29, 1293 ; † 1331 ) was Princess of Achaia from 1313 to 1318. She was the daughter of Florence of Hainaut and Isabelle de Villehardouin , Princess of Achaia.
From 1307 when Philip of Piedmont relinquished his claims to Achaia to 1312 when Isabelle de Villehardouin died, Achaia was claimed by two people, Isabelle and Philip I of Taranto . In 1313 Philip gave the principality to Mathilde. However, Isabelle's death had prompted another claimant, Ferdinand of Mallorca , who appeared on behalf of his wife Isabelle de Sabran, the daughter of Isabelle de Villaehardouin's younger sister Margarete.
In 1299, still as a child, Mathilde was married to Guido II. De la Roche , Duke of Athens , who died in 1308. In 1313 she married Louis of Burgundy , the titular king of the long-defunct Kingdom of Thessaloniki , in order to connect the House of Anjou with the House of Burgundy . In addition to this, Hugo V , Duke of Burgundy and Ludwig's older brother, was betrothed to Catherine de Valois-Courtenay , but Catherine's father Karl von Valois broke the engagement and married her to Philip I of Taranto , who in turn went to Achaia in favor of Mathilde and Ludwig waived.
The couple traveled to Greece to take possession of their fiefdom, which was already occupied by Ferdinand of Mallorca. Ferdinand was killed in the battle of Manolada on July 5, 1316, and Ludwig was then able to exercise control over Elis . Four weeks later, according to the Chronicle of Morea, he died of a fever, while the Catalan Declaratio summa suggests poison administered by Count John of Kefalonia. His death left an unsecured principality with his brother Odo IV of Burgundy , Mathilde of Hainaut and the Angevinen as claimants.
Mathilde was forced to marry Johann von Durazzo in 1318 and deposed as princess. In 1321 Johann Mathilde rejected (the marriage had remained childless), who then married Hugues de La Palice in her fourth marriage. She retired to Aversa , where she died in 1331.
literature
- René Grousset : L'Empire du Levant. Histoire de la Question d'Orient. Nouvelle édition revue. Payot, Paris 1949.
- Kenneth M. Setton (Ed.): A History of the Crusades. Volume 3: Harry W. Hazard (Ed.): The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison WI et al. 1975, ISBN 0-299-06670-3 .
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Philip I of Taranto |
Princess of Achaia (1313–1316 with Ludwig of Burgundy ) 1313–1318 |
Robert I of Naples |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Mathilde of Hainaut |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Princess of Achaia |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1293 |
DATE OF DEATH | 1331 |