23638796. Thibaut IV, Count of Champagne &
23638797. Margaret of Bourbon,
Queen of Navarre
5/20/1201,
Thibaut born in France, s/o 47277592. Thibaut III & 47277593. Blanche of
Navarre. [Born just 4 days before his father died.]
4/1206 at
Provens, “I, Robert, count an lord of Dreux and Braine, … agreement between me
and my dearest lady Blance, countess of Champagne, … house of Torcy … may not
make it higher or encircle it until the countess’s son Thibaut reaches his
majority. The countess has allowed me to build a fortress on my allodial land
at Fere, …”
1209,
Blanche obtained the king’s promise to accept son Thibaut’s homage at age 21.
King Philip required Thibaut to be raised at the royal court, where he remained
for 4 years.
6/1213,
Erard of Brienne [nephew of Erard II, count of Brienne] challenged Thibaut’s
right to succession.
7/1214, King
Philip notifies Guillaume of Chartres, master of the Templars, … The king state
that he and Prince Louis affirmed in the presence of Jean of Brienne, king of
Jerusalem, that they will not hear any case brought against Thibaut by Count
Henry II’s daughter until Thibaut reaches 21. (S) Littere Baronum, Evergates,
2003, P122.
1214, At the
insistence of Blanche, King Philip accepted the homage of 14-year-old Thibaut;
who promised to remain under his mother’s tutelage until age 21.
1216, Civil
war broke out in Champagne following the decision of the royal court of peers
to confirm the succession of Thibaut IV.
1217,
Margaret born in France, eldest d/o §§Archambaud VIII Dampierre & Alix de Forez.
1/7/1219,
Letter from Pope Honorius III: “Honorius, etc., to his beloved children,
B[lanche] countess of Champagne, and her son count Thibaut.” (S) Epistolæ.
4/1219, “I,
Simon of Clefmont, make known … because of evil advice I withdrew my fidelity
and homage [in 1216] from nobele lady Countess Blanche and her son Thibaut,
count of Champagne. … I quit to Countess Blanche and Thibaut the viscounty of
Montigny … as well as all the domain I used to have in Ageville, … Be it known
that I am their leigeman for 3 fiefs …”
[––Thibaut
& Gertrude––]
5/1220,
Thibaut married 1st to Gertrude of Dabo, 16 year-old widow of the
Duke of Lorraine; arranged by his mother.
11/1221, At
the Court of Peers, the dispute over Champagne and Brie between Thibaut and
Airard de Brieen was settled in Thibaut’s favor.
5/1222,
Thibaut succeeded to his titles and divorced Gertrude.
[––Thibaut
& Agnes––]
1223, Count
Thibaut married 2nd his cousin Agnes of Beaujeu.
7/14/1223,
Louis VIII succeeded as king of France.
11/1/1223,
Thibaut the only baron of 27 that did not accept King Louis VIII’s ordinance
prohibiting the recording of debts owed to Jews.
6/1226, King
Louis traveled to Languedoc to oversee the attack on a castle of Raymond VII in
the Cathar war. [Thibaut, Count of Champagne, left at the end of his 40-day required
service.]
11/8/1226,
King Louis VIII died.
1226,
Thibaut, at Avignon, arranged a truce between Queen Blanche of Castile, regent
of France, and revolting barons in Brittany whom he represented. Blanche
convinced son Louis’ uncle Philip and Thibaut to switch sides.
1226, At
Corbeil, many barons pledged support to Peter, count of Brittany, if he should
rebel against King Louis. Count Thibaut of Champagne came in support of the
king with 300 knights, and Peter was forced to yield to the king’s mercy. (S)
Chronicles of the Crusades, Joinville, 2010, P122. [As part of a reconcilation,
Thibaut agreed to a marriage with Peter’s daughter. King Louis intervened and
prevented the marriage, setting off a war by the barons against Thibaut.]
11/8/1226, Louis
IX succeeded his father as King of France; crowned at Reims. Queen Blanche
became regent of France during the minority of her son.
1227,
Thibaut, self-styled “the Queen’s knight” [supposedly because of love for Queen
Blanche], identified by writers of the period as one of the best poets of his
age. (S) The Book of French Songs, Oxenford, 1877, P333.
2/24/1228,
“I, Blanche, countess palatine of Troyes, and I Thibaut, count of Champagne and
Brie, make known to all who will see the present letters …” [Agreement with
Henry, Archbishop of Reims.] (S) Epistolæ.
1228,
Thibaut accused of betraying and then poisoning the King, and of having an
affair with Queen Blanche. [Thibaut supposedly wrote romantic poems about
Blanche, although she is “anonymous” in the poems.]
1228-29,
Queen Blanche assembled her army in support of Thibaut and marched on Bellesme,
considered impregnable. It was also unusual because it was still very cold.
After 2 assualts the fortress fell.
3/12/1229,
Thibaut’s mother Blanche died.
11/1229, The first preserved document mentioning the Abbaye
d’Argensolles by Thibaut naming his mother. (S) Annuaire-bulletin de la Société
de l'histoire de France, Vs.7 à 8, Paris, Renouard, 1869, P.71.
1229,
Thibaut sold Blois, Sancerre, Chartres and Chateaudun as fiefs to Queen Blanche
for 2,000,000 livres. (S) The Pictorial History of France, Bussey, 1843, P429.
9/1230, The
peace treaty at Compiegne stipulated that Theobald of Champagne was to expiate
the faults alleged against him and remove his presence by undertaking a crusade
with 100 knights to make war on infidels in Palestine. (S) Saint Louis, Perry,
1901, P52.
1230-31,
Thibaut franchised his castellany towns after they had resisted and invasion by
French barons led by Pierre Mauclerc, duke of Brittany.
7/1231,
Agnes died.
[––Thibaut
& Margaret––]
3/1232,
Thibaut agreed to marry Margaret.
9/22/1232,
Thibaut married 15-year-old Margaret.
8/28/1234,
King Thibaut inherited the kingdom of Navarre from his maternal uncle, Sancho
the Powerful.
[––King of Navarre––]
10/1/1234,
Thibaut, King of Navarre and count of Champagne, proposed a marriage of his
daughter, Blanca and the grandson of Berenguela of Castile, Alfonso, s/o
Fernando III.
1/3/1235,
The king [Henry III of England] will see that the truce which Rostand de Solio,
citizen of Bordeaux, entered into with him in the king’s name until Easter
next, is kept in the form made … no harm shall come from the land of Navarre to
Gascony, nor from Gascony to Navarre. (S) CPRs.
1/1236,
Theobald, count of Champagne and king of Navarre, and kinsman of the king of
England, accompanied Eleanor of Provence to England to become the bride of King
Henry III. (S) Chronicles of the Age of Chivalry, 2000, P56. [Thibaut had more
than 300 horsemen accompany Eleanor.]
1236, Peter,
count of Brittany, ordered to escort Theobald, king of Navarre, from the royal
court to Nantes. [Thibaut, as part of the conditions of an arranged peace,
promised to stay either 7 years beyond seas on crusade, or in his kingdom of
Navarre.]
1237, Through
Pope Gregory IX, and after disagreements about the marriage arraignment of
their children, Fernando III and Teobaldo I of Navarra made a peace agreement.
1238, A
“monstrous and inhuman race of men”, with a leader called Kan, began to overun
far eastern Europe.
9/1/1239,
Thibaut on crusade landed with a French contingent at Acre. Thibaut’s forces
were defeated by Egyptians at both Ascalon and Gaza. Amaury de Montfort and
many other French knights were captured.
9/1240,
Thibaut returned to Provins, France, with the Damascus rose [which was cross
bred to produce many of the modern varieties.]
6/24/1241,
Thibaut and the entire French court was at Saumur in Anjou for the knighting of
Alphonse, brother of King Louix IX. [Joinville, a witness to the event estimated
3000 knights in attendance.] (S) Women in the Middle Ages, Gies, 1991.
1242,
Margaret’s father died.
10/8/1242 at
Bordeaux, France, Safe-conduct, until Lent, for Th[ibaut] king of Navarre,
count palatine of Champagne and Brie, coming to the king [Henry III] to speak
with him. (S) CPRs.
1242-3, At
Bordeaux, France, Thibaut met with King Henry III of England.
3/13/1243,
at Bordeaux, France, Safe-conduct, for Th[eobald] king of Navarre, … through
the king’s [Henry III] land towards parts of Navarre. (S) CPRs.
7/20/1243,
Safe-conduct for Peter, chaplain of the queen of Navarre. (S) CPRs.
1244, Thibaut
and King Henry III of England made a 4-year truce.
8/12/1244,
To Nicholas de Molis, seneschal of Gascony. Whereas the king [Henry III of
England] promised Th. count of Flanders and Hainault that in the amending of
the agressions and damages committed
upon Thibaut, king of Navarre, by the king and his men of Bayonne, …
aggressions to be amended and restitution to be made for damages. (S) CPRs.
11/15/1244,
Acceptance of a prest of 1000 marks which the good men of Bayonne have made to
Nicholas de Molis, seneschal of Gascony [of King Henry III], to maintain the
war against the king of Navarre, … (S) CPRs.
5/12/1245,
Safe-conduct, for 4 years … for John de Molendinis and Leoninus de Sezanina,
knights of the king’s [Henry III of England] kinsman, the king of Navarre,
going and returning through the land of Gascony. (S) CPRs.
2/6/1249,
The king [Henry III of England] has understood the form of the compromise
between his kinsman Thibaut, king of Navarre, county palatine of Champagne and
Brie, and the king’s brother in law S. de Monteforti, earl of Leicester, to the
following effect … arbritration … these 4 shall pronounce the award before
Midsummer, 1249 … (S) CPRs.
7/11/1253,
Thibaut died, buried in Pamplona, Spain, succeeded by his son Thibaut V.
[––Margaret––]
10/26/1253,
Safe-conduct for Margaret, queen of Navarre, and her household, going through
Gascony to Champagne. (S) CPRs.
1253-56,
Margaret regent of Champagne and Navarre during the minority of her son.
4/1254,
Queen Marguerite of Navarre, regent, visited the king Jamie of Aragon at his
court in Monteaguado seeking an alliance. (S) Alfonso 10, The Learned,
Marta-Nez, 2010, P109.
4/12/1256,
Margaret died at Provins; buried at Clairval.
(S)
Aristocratic Women in Medieval France, Evergates, 1999.
Family
notes:
·
Archambaud VIII Dampierre (b.1189, d.1142), s/o §§Guy II Dampierre & Mathilde of Bourbon. (S) Histoire
Généalogique Et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de Bourbon, V1, Achaintre,
1825, P38. [Guy (d.1/18/1216)]
Children
of Thibaut and Margaret:
i. Thibaut V of Navarre, born ~1235 in France.
8/25/1253,
Safe-conduct for Thibaut, eldest son and heir of the king of Navarre, and his
household, going through the land and power of the king [Henry III of England.]
1258,
Thibaut married Isabelle, d/o King Louis IX of France.
12/1270,
Thibaut died on crusade; his brother Henry succeeding.
ii. Henry III of Navarre (11819398), born 1249 in
France.
