Walter III. from Caesarea

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Walter III. Brisebarre (* around 1180; † June 24, 1229 near Nicosia ) was a lord of Caesarea in the Kingdom of Jerusalem and a Connétable of the Kingdom of Cyprus .

Life

He was a son of Guido Brisebarre and Juliane Garnier , mistress of Caesarea.

Walter appeared several times since 1195 as a witness in documents of the kings Heinrich I , Amalrich II. And the regent Johann von Ibelin (the "Old Lord of Beirut"). In 1206 he was appointed Constable of Cyprus. His mother died in February 1216 at the latest, after which he inherited the barony of Caesarea .

Between the years 1217 and 1218 Walter led one hundred Cypriot knights in the Crusade of Damiette (Fifth Crusade), during which, among other things, his stepfather Aymar de Lairon was killed. In the time of his absence, Caesarea was attacked twice by the Saracens. The first attack was repulsed by King John of Brienne , but in the second in 1218 the city was stormed and occupied, despite the defense by Garnier l'Aleman and the Genoese .

In the following years Walter was a close partisan of the House of Ibelin , with whom he was related by marriage from 1210 to Margarete von Ibelin, a daughter of Balian von Ibelin and widow of Hugo II of Tiberias . He supported his brother-in-law, Johann von Ibelin, against the ambitions of Emperor Frederick II to rule , the widower of Queen Isabella II of Jerusalem, who died in 1228 . From Haute Cour Walter and his brother received in that year the regency the offer Acre to take, but both refused. On July 21, 1228 Walter was involved in that momentous feast in Limassol , at which John of Ibelin and Emperor Frederick II fell out over rule in Jerusalem and Cyprus. Although he belonged to the faction of the barons around his brother-in-law, Walter followed the emperor on his crusade to the mainland. From the diplomatic settlement between the emperor and Sultan al-Kamil in April 1229 he was able to draw personal profit, since the sultan released the occupied Caesarea with newly built city walls.

Despite this success, Walter immediately sided with his brother-in-law after the emperor left for Italy in July 1229. Together they rose up in the Lombard War against the imperial governors in Cyprus, whose reign they were able to end. However, Walter fell on June 24, 1229 in the decisive battle near Nicosia .

Marriage and offspring

From his marriage to Margarete von Ibelin he had several children:

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predecessor Office successor
Juliane Garnier Lord of Caesarea
( occupied by the Ayyubids between 1218 and 1229 )
1216–1229 		Johann Brisebarre
personal data
SURNAME Walter III. from Caesarea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walter III. Brisebarre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lord of Caesarea, constable of Cyprus
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1229
Place of death Nicosia