Simon von Maugastel

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Simon von Maugastel (* before 1197, † 1233 ) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tire and Chancellor of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and finally the Latin Patriarch of Constantinople .

Life

He came from a family believed to be in Maine or Normandy and came to the Holy Land in 1197 . His brother Philipp von Maugastel was a baron in the Kingdom of Jerusalem. His uncle Joscius († around 1202) was Archbishop of Tire and Chancellor of Jerusalem. In 1216 Simon was elected Archbishop of Tire.

At the end of 1216 he traveled as a legate of Pope Honorius III. through France and preaching for the Fifth Crusade . In the summer of 1217 he took part in the Council of Acre , at which the arriving crusader armies united under the command of the regent of Jerusalem, John of Brienne .

In 1225, Emperor Frederick II married the young Queen Isabella II of Jerusalem , daughter of John of Brienne. Simon and Balian von Sidon then accompanied Isabella to her coronation as empress in southern Italy. Frederick II was also King of Jerusalem through his marriage and one of his first acts of rule made Simon Chancellor of Jerusalem. He stayed at Frederick's court and negotiated at the end of 1226 as an imperial diplomat on the Lombard question with Pope Honorius III.

In 1227 Pope Gregory IX put him . as Patriarch of Constantinople, without a corresponding election being carried out at the cathedral chapter there. He resigned from his other offices and went to the Latin Empire in Constantinople , where he died in 1233.

Simon had been a personal friend of Johann von Brienne, who, as regent of Jerusalem, papal captain of the field and co-emperor of Constantinople, was close to him at all major stages of life and probably promoted Simon's career considerably through his influence.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b mouthpiece of the imperial will , p. 495.
  2. ^ A b Guy Perry: John of Brienne. King of Jerusalem, Emperor of Constantinople, c.1175-1237. Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN 1107513200 , p. 74.
  3. ^ The Later Crusades , p. 381.
  4. ^ The Later Crusades , p. 389.
  5. ↑ Steven Runciman : History of the Crusades. CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3406399606 , p. 952.
  6. ↑ Olaf B. Rader: Friedrich II. The Sicilian on the imperial throne. CH Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 3406616763 , (google.books) .
  7. ^ The mouthpiece of the imperial will , p. 486.
  8. ^ Filip van Tricht: The Latin Renovatio of Byzantium. The Empire of Constantinople (1204-1228). Cambridge University Press, 2011, p. 224.

literature

  • Robert Lee Wolff, Harry W. Hazard (Eds.): The Later Crusades, 1189-1311. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison WI 2005, ISBN 0-299-04844-6 .
  • Sebastian Gleixner: mouthpiece of the imperial will. The Chancellery of Emperor Friedrich II, 1226-1236. Böhlau Verlag, Weimar 2006, ISBN 3412039063 .
predecessor Office successor
Clarembaut Archbishop of Tire
1216-1227 		Peter of Sergines
Radulf of Sidon Chancellor of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
1226–1227 		Maregnan
Johannes Alegrin Latin Patriarch of Constantinople
1227–1233 		Nicholas of Castro Arquato
personal data
SURNAME Simon von Maugastel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simon of Tire; Simon of Constantinople
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Archbishop of Tire, Chancellor of Jerusalem, Latin Patriarch of Constantinople
DATE OF BIRTH before 1197
DATE OF DEATH 1233