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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Geoffroi de Villehardouin
		He begins with the preaching of the Crusade by Foulque de Neuilly, and ends suddenly with the death of Boniface de Montferrat.
		Villehardouin's book is of inestimable value because it is one of the oldest books composed in French prose.
		de l'empire de Constantinople sous les empereurs francois" (Paris, 1657), the text of which is defective; in the edition of the Société de l'hist.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15430b.htm (738 words)

	Villehardouin, Geoffroi de. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		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.
		His nephew, Geoffroi I de Villehardouin, founded the Villehardouin dynasty in the Peloponnesus.
	www.bartleby.com /65/vi/VilleharG.html (182 words)

	Geoffroi de Villehardouin
		Geoffroi or Geoffrey of Villehardouin was a knight and historian who participated in and chronicled the Fourth Crusade.
		After the conquest of the Byzantine Empire in 1204, he served as a military leader, and led the retreat from Adrianople in 1205 after Baldwin I was captured.
		Villehardouin's nephew went on to conquer Morea[?] (the Peloponnesus) in 1210.
	www.fastload.org /ge/Geoffroi_de_Villehardouin.html (275 words)

	La Conqueste de Constantinople
		Cil des nés et des galies et des uissiers pristrent port et aancrerent lor vaissiaus.
		Des Grex i avoit tant sor la rive venuz que ce n'ere fins ne mesure, et ere li criz si granz que il sembloit que terre et mer fondist, et entroient es barges et en salvations, et traioient as noz, qui rescoöient le feu, et en i ot de bleciez.
		Et il comencent a saillir des nés et des uissiers et des galies qui ainz ainz qui mielz mielz.
	www.umanitoba.ca /faculties/arts/french_spanish_and_italian/villhard.htm (2584 words)

	Encyclopedia: Fourth Crusade
		While the papal representative to the crusade, Peter Cardinal Capuano, endorsed the move as necessary to prevent the crusade's complete failure, pope Innocent was alarmed at this development and wrote a letter to the crusade leadership threatening excommunication; this letter was concealed from the bulk of the army and the attack proceeded.
		Simon de Montfort Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, also Simon IV de Montfort (1160 â€“; June 25, 1218) was a French nobleman who took part in the Fourth Crusade (1202 - 1204) and was a prominent leader of the Albigensian Crusade.
		Geoffrey de Villehardouin, Chronicle of The Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinople
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fourth-Crusade (3983 words)

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		Son Histoire de la conquête de Constantinople, rédigée peu après les événements (vers 1207), est la justification personnelle d’un homme qui, dans la conduite et le détournement de la croisade, avait eu part aux décisions les plus graves.
		Villehardouin est l’un des premiers historiens étrangers au milieu clérical, et qui au surplus a choisi d’écrire en français.
		Destitué de ses fonctions de conseiller et de sénéchal en 1485, il fut même emprisonné en 1488.
	membres.lycos.fr /clo7/panorama/histoirma.htm (1061 words)

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		The city was conquered by the French nobleman Geoffroi I de Villehardouin in 1205 and was included in the Latin principality of Achaia.
		Pátrai was captured by the Ottoman Turks in 1458, passed to Venice in 1687, and was retaken by the Turks in 1715.
		The principality prospered under the strong rule of Geoffroi I and of his son Geoffroi II de Villehardouin,.
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	Principality of Achaea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prince William II Villehardouin was a poet and troubador, and his court had its own mint, literary culture, and form of spoken French.
		As a result, Angevin kings of Naples gave Achaia as their fief to a series of their own relatives and creatures, who fought against Princess Margaret Villehardouin and her heirs.
		But Margaret, (younger) daughter of William II Villehardouin, claimed her rights from 1307.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Principality_of_Achaea (1080 words)

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		Geoffrey of Villehardouin (in French Geoffroi de Villehardouin) (1160–c.
		Villehardouin's account is generally read alongside that of Robert of Clari, a French knight of low station, and of Nicetas Choniates, a Byzantine writer.
		Chronicles of the Crusades (Villehardouin and Jean de Joinville), translated by Margaret R. Shaw (Penguin).
	www.homestayfinder.com /Dictionary.aspx?q=Geoffrey_of_Villehardouin (324 words)

	Geoffroi de Villehardouin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After the conquest of the Byzantine Empire in 1204, he served as a military leader, and led the retreat from Battle of Adrianople in 1205 after Baldwin I wascaptured.
		In 1207 he began to write his chronicle of the Crusade, De la Conquête deConstantinople (On the Conquest of Constantinople).
		The historian Nicetas Choniates chronicles the sameevents from the Byzantine perspective, and is often read alongside Villehardouin's account.
	www.therfcc.org /geoffroi-de-villehardouin-109413.html (296 words)

	AllRefer.com - Villehardouin (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Achaia, organized on the feudal model of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, comprised virtually the whole Peloponnesus save several ports held by the Venetians, and it was a fief held under the Latin Empire.
		The principality prospered under the strong rule of Geoffroi I and of his son Geoffroi II de Villehardouin, d.
		Captured (1259) at the battle of Pelagonia by Emperor Michael VIII of Nicaea, who in 1261 was to recover Constantinople and to restore the Byzantine Empire, he refused to accept freedom in exchange for the cession of Achaia.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/V/Villehar.html (392 words)

	Geoffrey of Villehardouin -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		While at Constantinople he also served as an ambassador to (Click link for more info and facts about Isaac II Angelus) Isaac II Angelus, and was in the embassy that demanded that Isaac appoint (Click link for more info and facts about Alexius IV) Alexius IV co-emperor.
		It was in French rather than (Any dialect of the language of ancient Rome) Latin, making it one of the earliest works of French (Ordinary writing as distinguished from verse) prose.
		Villehardouin's nephew (also named Geoffrey) went on to become (Click link for more info and facts about Prince of Achaea) Prince of Achaea in (Click link for more info and facts about Morea) Morea (the medieval name for the (The southern peninsula of Greece; dominated by Sparta until the 4th century BC) Peloponnesus) in 1209.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/geoffrey_of_villehardouin.htm (290 words)

	Mavi Boncuk Archives: January 2005
		Geoffroi de VillehardouinMaréchal de Champagne, warrior, and first historian in the French language, b.
		Geoffrey de Villehardouin [b.c.1160-d.c.1213]:Memoirs or Chronicle of The Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinople
		Geoffrey de Villehardouin [b.c.1160-d.c.1213]: Memoirs or Chronicle of The Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinople, trans.
	mbarchives.blogspot.com /2005_01_01_mbarchives_archive.html (2254 words)

	Imago Mundi - Geoffroi de Villehardouin.
		Villehardouin (Geoffroi de), historien et homme d'Etat français, né probablement au château de Villehardouin (Aube) entre 1150 et 1164, mort en Thrace vers 1212.
		Dans tous ces événements, Villehardouin joua un rôle fort actif et souvent même prépondérant; c'est surtout celui de négociateur et d'orateur qui paraît lui avoir été dévolu, et son sang-froid, son énergie tenace et son talent de parole justifiaient amplement ce choix.
		Il fit partie de l'expédition dirigée contre les Bulgares, et, après le désastre du 14 avril 1205, c'est lui qui organisa la retraite et ramena à Constantinople les débris de l'armée.
	www.cosmovisions.com /Villehardouin.htm (431 words)

	Geoffrey of Villehardouin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was in French rather than Latin making it one of the earliest of French prose.
		The historian Nicetas Choniates chronicles the same events from the perspective and is often read alongside Villehardouin's
		Villehardouin himself seems to have died afterwards perhaps in 1212.
	www.freeglossary.com /Geoffrey_de_Villehardouin (666 words)

	Joffrois de Ville-Hardoin: La croisade de Constantinople (Table des matières)
		Des pèlerins qui furent ramenés à Venise, et de ceux qui s'en allèrent en Pouille.
		De ceux qui acceptent les propositions du jeune Alexis.
		De ceux qui se séparèrent pour aller en Syrie, et de la flotte du comte de Flandre.
	users.skynet.be /antoine.mechelynck/chroniq/villeh/VH000.htm (696 words)

	HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		VILLEHARDOUIN [ Villehardouin], French noble family that ruled the Peloponnesus from 1210 to 1278.
		The Fourth Crusade, the one chronicled by Geoffroy de Villehardouin in "The Conquest of Constantinople," was put into motion...
		Pátrai was conquered by the French nobleman Geoffroi I de Villehardouin in 1205 and was included in the Latin principality of Achaia.
	www.highbeam.com /library/search.asp?refid=ency_botresults&q=Villehardouin (463 words)

	ABout FranCe :: Alles über Frankreich
		Er ist Autor des ältesten erhaltenen historiografischen (=geschichtsschreibenden) Werks in franz.
		Prosa, der Histoire de la conquête de Constantinople (1207-1213), womit er in eine Domäne einbricht, die bis dahin dem Lateinischen vorbehalten war.
		Villehardouins Chronik gefällt durch ihren nüchternen und realistischen Stil, verfolgt natürlich aber den Zweck, den neuerlichen Misserfolg des Kreuzzugs zu erklären und den Autor selbst zu rechtfertigen.
	www.about-france.de /frankreich/index.php?module=Encyclopedia&func=displayterm&id=7979&vid=2 (151 words)

	History of the Christian Church, Volume V: The Middle Ages. A.D. 1049-1294. (ii.ix.ix) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		During the Crusaders’ investment of Constantinople his palace was burnt, and with his wife and daughter he fled to Nicaea: Byzantina Historia, 1118–1206, in Recueil des historiens des Croisades, histor.
		des 4ten Kreuzzuges, Breslau, 1875.—Short extracts from Villehardouin and De Clary are given in Trans.
		Villehardouin, who was one of the six members of the commission (Wailly’s ed., p.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/hcc5.ii.ix.ix.html (2725 words)

	IV. Arrivée &aagrave; Constantinople (1203) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Toutefois, les habitants de l'île s'opposèrent à l'arrivée du prince grec et attaquèrent la flotte.
		Ils commencèrent par piller les régions environnantes, de sorte qu'ils confrontèrent les quelques contingents grecs qu'Alexis III avait placé pour surveiller les mouvements des Francs.
		Quant à Villehardouin, qui fut probablement parmi ceux qui montèrent à bord des galères, voici son récit, qui est d'ailleurs très semblable à celui de Clari:
	www.callisto.si.usherb.ca /~croisade/Crois4.htm (461 words)

	Geoffroy Villehardouin - new and used books
		La Conquête de Constantinople par Geoffroi de Ville-Hardouin, avec la continuation de Henri de Valenciennes.
		Bonne édition de cette source essentielle pour la quatrième Croisade.
		Geoffroy de Villehardouin - Un chevalier à la croisade l'histoire de la conquete de Constantinople texte établi et présenté par Jean longnon suivi de ceux qui se croisèrent et comment le marquis de Montferrat devint leur seigneur par Robert de Cléry in-8,broché,269 pages,en annexe bibliographie.
	www.isbn.pl /A-geoffroy-villehardouin (394 words)

	All words on Geoffrey of Villehardouin
		'''Geoffrey of Villehardouin''' (in French Geoffroi de Villehardouin) (1160 - c.1212) was a knight and historian who participated in and chronicled the Fourth Crusade.
		He was Marshal of Champagne, and joined the Crusade in 1199 during a tournament held by Count Thibaud III of Champagne.
		He drought, and no discoveries of any importance were made.
	www.allwords.org /ge/geoffrey-of-villehardouin.html (636 words)

	Didactic, Historical & Latin Literature
		Chronique d'Ernoul et de Bernard le Trésorier (Gallica, éd.
		Geoffrey de Villehardouin [b.c.1160-d.c.1213]: Memoirs or Chronicle of The Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinople (Medieval Sourcebook)
		Mémoires sur les règnes de Louis XI et Charles VIII / Philippe de Commines.
	www.utm.edu /~globeg/latdidac.shtml (755 words)

	IMPRESSIONS DE CONSTANTINOPLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vue de Constantinople, "Voyage d'Outre-mer par Bertrandon de la Brocquière", XVe siècle (BN, MS Fr, 9087, f.
		Geoffroi de Villehardouin, Histoire de la conquête de Constantinople, Paris, Librairie Hachette et cie, 1870, p.
		Geoffroy de Villehardouin et Robert de Clari, Ceux qui conquirent Constantinople, Paris, Union générale d'éditions, 1966, p.
	www.callisto.si.usherb.ca /~croisade/Impress.htm (131 words)

	MSN Encarta - Encyclopédie - Sciences historiques
		Sciences de la vie et de la Terre
		Retrouvez des documents historiques, des textes officiels, des discours célèbres, des extraits d'œuvres littéraires, etc.
		Consultez des éléments de méthode avant de vous lancer dans un exposé, une argumentation, une analyse littéraire...
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	Books on Joinville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Villehardouin became Marshall of Champagne in 1185, and his clear, balanced record of the Fourth Crusade speaks with all the voice and authority of a practiced statesman.
		Taken together, these two chronicles can be said to paint the portrait of a knight - Villehardouin describing his figure in an orderly, detailed progression, and Joinville addressing the man beneath the armor.
		Vieux souvenirs de Mgr le prince de Joinville, 1818-1848
	books.bankhacker.com /Joinville (266 words)

	Arpos - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Crusaders referred to Arpos as Naples or Napoli.
		The Crusaders made Theodosius Branas (who Geoffroi de Villehardouin refers to as Vemas) the Lord of Arpos.
		In 1206, Tsar Kaloyan destroyed Arpos, but it was later rebuilt and continued to be ruled by Branas.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Theodosiopolis (177 words)

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