John of Brienne
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John of Brienne was the king of Jerusalem from 1210 to 1225 and Latin emperor of Constantinople from 1229 to 1237. He was the youngest son of Erard II of Brienne, a wealthy nobleman in Champagne. John
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Frisian crusaders attack a tower near Damietta during the Fifth Crusade (from Matthew Paris' 13th-century Chronica Majora).
Marie of Brienne
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Maria of Montferrat
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Maria of Montferrat, known as la Marquise, was the queen of Jerusalem who reigned from 1205 until 1212. She was the eldest daughter of Queen Isabella I and was born posthumously to Isabella's second h
John of Brienne
…of Brienne on behalf of his minor nephew Walter IV, who lived in Italy. The barons of the Kingdom of Jerusalem proposed that John marry their queen, Maria. With the consent of Philip II of France and Pope Innocent III, he left France for the Holy Land and married Queen Maria; the couple were crowned in…
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While Maria and her maternal family reigned in the Levant, her paternal family set up a kingdom in the Balkans.
John of Brienne married Maria the day after his arrival and was crowned soon after.