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Geoffroi de Villehardouin
Geoffroi de Villehardouin c.1160-c.1212, French historian and Crusader. As marshal of Champagne, he was a leader of the Fourth Crusade (see Crusades ), which resulted in the conquest (1204) of Constantinople and the creation of the Latin Empire of Constantinople. Villehardouin, in his De la conquête de Constantinople (first pub. 1585; available in several English editions), described the Crusade and the subsequent struggles of the Latin nobles against their Greek and Bulgarian neighbors, from 1198 to 1207, with vivid detail and disarming frankness. Reliable as a historical source, Villehardouin's account stands as an early masterpiece of French prose. For his services in the Crusade he received the title of marshal of Romania (the name then given to Thrace) and a rich fief in Thrace. His nephew, Geoffroi I de Villehardouin, founded the Villehardouin dynasty in the Peloponnesus.
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The lost crusade: in the 13th century, Christian crusaders who took up the cross to liberate the Holy Land from Islam were misdirected into serving very different ends.
Magazine article from: The New American; 3/19/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...delegation of six knights, led by Geoffrey of Villehardouin and representing Tibald and the other crusaders...very wise and able man," according to Villehardouin's record. Had Villehardouin and his comrades-in-arms had any inkling...
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Wauchier de Denain; La Vie mon signeur seint Nicholas le benoit confessor.(Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...French prose, being contemporaneous with the chronicles of Villehardouin, Clari, and Henri de Valenciennes. Wauchier's prose...clear and direct, not all that different from the style of Villehardouin, although Wauchier must have been much more learned than...
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A magical Mystra tour.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 1/19/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...until the 13th Century that the first foundation stones of this great city were laid. 'A Frankish knight called William of Villehardouin built the castle atop the hill,' explains Georgia. 'He was a descendent of crusaders who had colonised the Peloponnese...
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The Capture of Constantinople: The Hystoria Constantinopolitana of Gunther of Pairis
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 7/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...end of 1205 and based on the recollections of Gunther's crusading abbot, Martin. Along with the memoirs of Geoffrey de Villehardouin and Robert de Clari, Gunther's account is one of the most extensive descriptions of this pivotal event. But the Hystoria...
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Boutet, Dominique. Formes litteraires et conscience historique. Aux origines de la litterature francaise 1100-1250.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: French Forum; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...seconde partie, "poetiques de l'histoire", affirme plus qu'elle ne demontre l'equivalence des visions historiques de Villehardouin et de l'auteur de La Mort Artu (mais la perspective ainsi ouverte est riche), et la troisieme partie, "historicite...
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The myths of medieval warfare.
Magazine article from: History Today; 1/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...tactics' (Warfare in Feudal Europe, Cornell University Press, 1971). This overlooks the evidence: William of Poitiers, Villehardouin and Joinville were just a few of the fighting men who wrote detailed accounts of war. The monks and clergy, meanwhile...
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The Peloponnese. (Greece)
Magazine article from: Europe; 5/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...among houses, palaces, and churches. The fortress was begun by the Franks in 1249 after the 4th crusade by William II de Villehardouin but was lost to the Greeks only 10 years later. Mystra is noted for its many churches filled with 14th and 15th century...
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Time and Transcendence. Secular History, the Catholic Reaction and the Rediscovery of the Future.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...and the idiosyncratic acceptable topics for historical writing. (There is no mention of the earlier chroniclers such as Villehardouin, Joinville, or Froissart, although the first of the French memorialists, Commynes, is referred to briefly once...
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The soul of Greece and travel; On my Peloponnesian journey, I paid homage to Apollo at Corinth, to Zeus at Olympia, and to Greek dramatists at Epidaurus.(THE HOME FORUM)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 11/16/2006; 700+ words
; ...they parceled out the conquered lands among themselves. The castle at Mystras on the Peloponnesus was built by William de Villehardouin, a Frankish knight. Here, William "held his court, rode with a thousand horsemen in his train, entertained the princes...
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Holy slaughter Connell re-creates the Crusades
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 4/9/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...sought to liberate. Connell says he drew from numerous sources, prominently Chronicles of the Crusades, by Geoffrey de Villehardouin and Jean de Joinville. He makes Joinville the narrator of Deus, looking back on the entire history of the Crusades in...
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Geffroi de Villehardouin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Geffroi de Villehardouin The French historian and soldier Geffroi de Villehardouin (ca. 1150-1213) was the first French chronicler...writings deserve literary recognition. Geffroi de Villehardouin was born in the ch â teau of Villehardouin...
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Villehardouin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Villehardouin , French noble family that ruled the...from 1210 to 1278. Geoffroi I de Villehardouin, d. 1218, nephew of the historian...the return of Champlitte to France, Villehardouin succeeded him (1210) as prince...
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Villehardouin, Geoffroi de
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Villehardouin, Geoffroi de (1150–1213) French historian. He was a leader of the Fourth Crusade . Villehardouin's incomplete account of the Crusade, Conquest of Constantinople , was the first historical chronicle written in French.
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Geoffroi de Villehardouin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Geoffroi de Villehardouin c.1160-c.1212, French historian...Latin Empire of Constantinople. Villehardouin, in his De la conquête...Reliable as a historical source, Villehardouin's account stands as an early masterpiece...
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Peloponnesus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Constantinople, Latin Empire of ), the French Villehardouin family received the principality of...prosperity and chivalrous culture under the Villehardouin princes. Many castles remain to show...After the death (1278) of William of Villehardouin, the last prince, the principality...
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