Simon (Joinville)

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Simon of Joinville († May 1233 ) was Lord of Joinville and Seneschal of Champagne . He was a younger son of Gottfried IV of Joinville and his wife Hélius von Dampierre.

biography

Joinville coat of arms

Around 1204, Simon succeeded his brother Gottfried V, who had fallen in the Holy Land , as Lord of Joinville . Between June 1209 and March 1210, Simon was engaged in the army of the Albigensian crusade and took part in battles in the region around the Montségur castle .

In his homeland, Simon had been involved in the War of Succession for Champagne since 1216. He had taken the side of the pretender Philippa (a daughter of Count Heinrich II. ) And her husband Érard de Brienne , against his incumbent Count Theobald IV. And his mother Blanka . The reason was the office of seneschal of the Counts of Champagne , in which Simon is first recorded in 1206. This office was de facto hereditary in his family , but Simon wanted to make this situation legally valid, which Countess Blanka denied him. He was, like all insurgents, both by Pope Honorius III. and excommunicated to the Bishop of Châlons . After the most powerful supporter of the rebels, Duke Theobald I of Lorraine , was defeated by King Friedrich II in 1218 , Simon also had to submit and the excommunication against him was lifted in July 1218. Nevertheless, Countess Blanka promised that he would inherit the seneschalate, whereupon Simon would remain loyal to his liege lords in the future.

In July 1218, Simon had taken the cross and took part in the Fifth Crusade , from which he returned home in September 1220. There he settled a dispute between Countess Blanka and Count von Rethel as Seneschal in 1221 . Together with Count Theobald IV, he joined the rebellious barons of France against the reign of Queen Blanka of Castile in 1226 , but switched to their side with his Count in January 1227. The barons therefore directed their fight to the Champagne, where Simon successfully defended Troyes against the Counts of Bar and Boulogne in 1229 and then devastated the Barrois , for which he was excommunicated by the Bishop of Toul (an ally of the Count of Bar). The fighting ended in 1230 after an intervention by Queen Blanka.

In March 1233, Simon was again certified by Count Theobald IV. The heredity of the Seneschallate for which he had long fought, a few days later he died.

Marriages and offspring

In his first marriage, between 1205 and 1209, Simon was married to Ermengarde de Montclair († 1218). The couple's children were:

• Gottfried († 1232/33), Lord of Montclair
• Isabella († 1268 or later), heir to Montclair; ⚭ Simon de Clermont
• Beatrix († before May 1249)

In his second marriage, Simon married Beatrix von Auxonne († April 11, 1260), daughter of Count Stephan III , before 1224 . from Auxonne . On her father's side, Beatrix came from a branch line of the old Burgundy-Ivrea family and can count the Staufer imperial family among her relatives. Her first divorced marriage was Aimon II de Faucigny , with whom she had two daughters, one of whom married Count Peter II of Savoy . Beatrix's inheritance consisted of the castle of Marnay . After the death of her second husband, she assumed the office of Seneschallin ( Senescalissa Campanie ) for her underage eldest son . When the eldest came of age, Beatrix took over the castle of Vaucouleurs and managed it until the second son came of age. Then she withdrew to her inheritance Marnay, which she bequeathed to her third son. The children of Simon and Beatrix were:

• Johann (Jean) (* 1224 or 1225 - † December 24, 1317), Lord of Joinville and Seneschal of Champagne
  • Biographer of King Louis IX. of the saint
• Gottfried († October 21, 1314 in Trim ), Lord of Vaucouleurs
  • Ancestor of the Joinvilles in England ( Lords of Geneville ). His granddaughter Joan was the wife of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March
• Simon († June 3, 1276), Lord of Marnay
  • Progenitor of the lords of Gex (until 1347)
• Wilhelm († 1268 or later), Archdeacon of Salins
• Marie († after June 1256), ⚭ Jean de Til-Châtel
• Heloise († after October 21, 1312), ⚭ Jean I. de Faucogney († before 1271)

literature

• Jules Simonnet: Essai sur l'histoire de la généalogie des sires de Joinville. 1008-1386. Accompagné de chartes & documents inédits. F. Dangien, Langres 1875.
• Theodore Evergates: The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne. 1100-1300. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia PA 2007, ISBN 0-8122-4019-7 .

Individual proof

1. ↑ L'Estoire de Eracles empereur Liv. 32, cap. III, in: Recueil des historiens des croisades (1859), Historiens Occidentaux II, p. 331. Here called Symon de Gienvile .

predecessor	Office	successor
Gottfried V.	Lord of Joinville 1204-1233	Johann