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Jean de Joinville (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ də ʒwɛ̃vil], 1 May 1224 – 24 December 1317) was one of the great chroniclers of medieval France. [1] He is most famous for writing the Life of Saint Louis , a biography of Louis IX of France that chronicled the Seventh Crusade .
Jean de Joinville presenting his book Life of Saint Louis to Louis X of France, miniature, 1330s. In October 1245, Louis gathered his barons to receive their agreement and support for the Crusade. The next year, he held another such gathering in Paris of noblemen to swear fealty to his children in the event of his not returning from the Crusade.
According to the medieval chronicler Jean de Joinville, he was one of the most accomplished knights of his generation and a benevolent ruler on Cyprus. [2] [3] [4] Joinville recounts an episode when he, Guy and Baldwin had been taken prisoner by Saracen rebels: [5]
Jean de Joinville in his account of the Sixth Crusade mentions the coat of arms of the Count of Jaffa, who at this time was John of Ibelin. Jeanville describes the coat of arms as " or with a cross of gules patée ", which roughly translates to "red cross patty on golden ground". [ 5 ]
The chronicler Jean de Joinville, who was not a priest, reports incidents demonstrating Margaret's bravery after Louis was made prisoner in Egypt. For example, she decisively acted to assure a food supply for the Christians in Damietta and went so far as to ask the knight who guarded her bedchamber to kill her and her newborn son if the city ...
The arms borne by Geoffrey V of Joinville, still the municipal arms today The first known lord of Joinville (French sire or seigneur de Joinville) in the county of Champagne appears in the middle of the eleventh century. The former lordship was raised into the Principality of Joinville under the House of Guise by French king Henry II in 1551, and passed to the House of Orléans in 1688. Even ...
John of Ibelin (French: Jean d'Ibelin, 1215 – December 1266), count of Jaffa and Ascalon, was a noted jurist and the author of the longest legal treatise from the Kingdom of Jerusalem. He was the son of Philip of Ibelin , bailli of the Kingdom of Cyprus , and Alice of Montbéliard, and was the nephew of John of Ibelin, the "Old Lord of Beirut" .
Peter of Courtenay (French: Pierre de Courtenay (c. 1218 – 1249 or 1250 in Egypt) was a French knight and a member of the Capetian House of Courtenay, a cadet line of the royal House of Capet. From 1239 until his death, he was the ruling Lord of Conches [ 1 ] and Mehun-sur-Yèvre .