Richard de Camville

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Richard de Camville (also Canville ) († June 1191 before Acre ) was an Anglo-Norman knight. During the Third Crusade , he served as the brief regent of Cyprus .

origin

Richard de Camville came from an Anglo-Norman family who originally came from Canville-les-Deux-Églises in Normandy . He was a son of Richard de Canville and his second wife Millicent, the widow of Robert Marmion († 1143/4).

Participation in the Third Crusade

After his father's death in 1176, his older half-brother Gerard de Canville inherited most of their father's estates. Richard apparently inherited estates at Little Stretton in Leicestershire from his father and the estate of Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire from his mother . As a younger son he entered the service of King Henry II. After his death in 1189, he took part in the coronation of his son Richard I in Westminster Abbey . On June 18, 1190, Richard appointed Camville in Chinon Castle, alongside Robert de Sablé and Guillaume de Forz, as one of the commanders of the fleet with which he wanted to leave for the Third Crusade to Palestine . While the king and most of his army first moved overland from Normandy to southern France, Camville probably set out with Sablé in July 1190 with 63 ships from Gascony to circumnavigate the Iberian Peninsula . During a stopover in Lisbon, the crusaders and the sailors committed riots against the population, which Camville and Sablé were only able to stop with difficulty before they concluded an armistice with King Sancho I of Portugal . Then Guillaume de Forz reached the mouth of the Tagus with 33 ships . On July 24th, Sablé and Camville left Lisbon and together the crusaders successfully assisted the Portuguese in the defense of Silves in the Algarve . The city had only been conquered the previous year with the help of crusaders from Flanders , Thuringia and London and was now threatened by a Moorish army. The united English fleet sailed on into the Mediterranean. In Marseilles , the ships took in King Richard and his army. During the winter in Messina , Camville served as a hostage for the armistice between the army of King Richard and King Tankred of Sicily . After the fleet had reached Cyprus in May 1191, the king appointed him governor of Cyprus together with Robert of Thornham after the conquest of the island . Not long afterwards, Camville fell ill. To fulfill his crusade vows, he traveled on to Acre, which was besieged by the Crusaders . There he met the king again before he died.

Marriage and offspring

Canville had married Hawise, a daughter of Walter Fitzwilliam. By this marriage he had acquired Whalton in Northumberland . He exchanged this in 1188 with his sister-in-law Constance and her husband Ralph de Crammaville for properties in Leicestershire . He left a daughter, Isabella, who married Robert de Harcourt and inherited Camville's estates at Little Stretton and Stanton Harcourt.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Lee Wolff, Harry W. Hazard: A history of the Crusades, Vol 2: The later Crusades, 1189-1311 . University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 1969, p. 56
  2. Harold Victor Livermore: A New History of Portugal . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1966, p. 70
  3. ^ Robert Lee Wolff, Harry W. Hazard: A history of the Crusades, Vol 2: The later Crusades, 1189-1311 . University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 1969, p. 602
predecessor Office successor
Isaak Komnenus (Emperor) Governor of Cyprus
(with Robert of Thornham )
1191
Armand Bouchart ( Knights Templar )