Robert de Joinville

Robert de Joinville († probably in June 1205 in Apulia ) was a French knight at the beginning of the 13th century. He came from Champagne and was a younger son of Lord Gottfried IV of Joinville .

On the occasion of a by Count Theobald III. of Champagne 1199 organized tournament in Écry-sur-Aisne , on which the traveling preacher Fulko von Neuilly gave a rousing address to the one year earlier by Pope Innocent III. held the fourth crusade , Robert decided to take the cross together with his older brother Gottfried V. A year later, however, Robert's relative, Count Walter III, married. von Brienne , a daughter of King Tankred of Sicily and was given by Pope Innocent III. called to come to southern Italy to end the rule of the German rulers of the child king Friedrich there. Like Count Walter, who had also taken the cross, Robert gave up his participation in the crusade and went with him to Italy. On the way they met Marshal Gottfried von Villehardouin in Mont Cenis on his return trip from Venice, where he had negotiated a crossing to the Holy Land for the crusade .

Robert then fought at Agnella in 1201 and Terracina in 1204 against Diepold von Schweinspeunt and probably fell in June 1205 near Sarno , where Walter von Brienne was captured by the Germans and died three days later.

literature

• Jules Simonnet: Essai sur l'histoire de la généalogie des sires de Joinville (1008-1386) accompagné de chartes . F. Dangien, Langres 1875, p. 73 ( Online  - Internet Archive ).