Milon IV (Bar-sur-Seine)

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. Milon IV (* 1168 to 1174; † 17th / 18th August 1219 before Damietta ) was a Count of Bar-sur-Seine , Viscount of Chartres and lord of Le Puiset . He was a son of Hugo IV of Le Puiset († 1189) and Countess Petronille of Bar-sur-Seine.

He was married to Helissende von Joigny, a daughter of Count Rainald IV of Joigny and Adele von Nevers. They had at least one son, Walter (Gaucher) .

Milon's coat of arms is known from a seal from 1202. It is probably borrowed from the coat of arms of the House of Brienne, from which it descended through his mother.

Milon took part on the side of Philip II August in the fight against Richard the Lionheart . When he was defeated in the Battle of Gisors in 1198, he was one of those knights who fell with the king in the Epte . He distinguished himself against Johann Ohneland in 1204 when he conquered Normandy and was present when Rouen was taken . In the Historia Albigensis of Pierre des Vaux-de-Cernay he is mentioned as a participant in the Albigensian Crusade , where he was involved in the sieges of Béziers and Carcassonne in 1209. In the War of Succession in Champagne , he stood from 1215 on the side of Countess Blanka and her son Theobald IV against Érard von Brienne . In 1217 Milon and his son embarked on the Damiette Crusade (Fifth Crusade). In the course of the fighting in front of Damiette , the son and heir was killed on July 30, 1219. Milon himself died in August of the same year before the city was conquered.

Milon had inherited the county of Bar-sur-Seine equally between his sister Margarete and a niece Laure de Sennecey, both of whom later sold their shares to the Count of Champagne. The Vice-Counties of Chartres and Le Puiset went to his nephew Simon de Rochefort.

During the siege of Damiette in 1218, the Templar Grand Master Guillaume de Chartres also died . According to the chronicle of the Cologne scholastic Thomas Olivier ( Historia Damiatina ), who had participated in the crusade, the grand master was a son of Milon ( Venti etiam… Comes Barri et filius ejus frater Willelmus de Carnoto magister militae templi ). From a genealogical point of view, this would be in fact impossible, unless the Grand Master was not older than 25 when he took office in 1210. Milon's well-known son Walter was only old enough in 1199 to bear witness to a donation from his father to a religious institution in Châteaudun . But a filiation of the grand master of Count Milon III would be possible . († 1151), with which he would have been an uncle of Milons IV.

See also: Le Puiset house

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  1. ↑ Roger von Hoveden : The annals of Roger de Hoveden, Vol. 2 , ed. by Henry T. Riley. 1853, p. 431
  2. ↑ Thomas Oliver, Historia Damiatina , ed. von Hoogeweg: The writings of the Cologne Cathedral Scholaster, later Bishop of Paderborn and Cardinal Bishop of S. Sabina Oliverus . 1894, pp. 187-188
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SURNAME Milon IV.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Bar-sur-Seine, Vice-Count of Chartres, Lord of Le Puiset
DATE OF BIRTH between 1168 and 1174
DATE OF DEATH August 17, 1219 or August 18, 1219
Place of death Damiette