Genealogy Van Zanen » Floris d'Avesnes Prince of Achaja (± 1255-1297)

Personal data Floris d'Avesnes Prince of Achaja 

• He was born about 1255 in Valenciennes, Nord, France.
• He died on January 23, 1297.
• A child of Jean d'Avesnes and Berthe van Holland
• This information was last updated on February 20, 2012.

Household of Floris d'Avesnes Prince of Achaja

He is married to Isabelle de Villehardouin.

They got married on September 16, 1289.

Child(ren):

1. Mathilde d'Avesnes  1293-1331

Notes about Floris d'Avesnes Prince of Achaja

Florent of Hainaut
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Florent of Hainaut (also Floris or Florence; Hainaut is also spelled "Hainault") (c.1255 – 23 January 1297) was Prince of Achaea from 1289 to his death, in right of his wife, Isabella of Villehardouin. He was the son of John I of Avesnes and Adelaide of Holland. From his father he received the stadholdership (government) of Zeeland.

After he left Zeeland, he took up service with Charles II of Naples, who made him constable of the Kingdom of Naples. After his marriage with Isabella (16 September 1289), he had one daughter: Matilda. She would succeed him and her mother as princess.

Florent settled with his wife in Morea. He negotiated the Treaty of Glarentsa with the Byzantine Empire in 1290. The situation for the Franks in Greece was hopeless by this time, however. The fall of the Angevins in Sicily meant that they were preoccupied with recouping territory there and few Western governments would send troops to defend Morea. Florent thus made peace and maintained it until 1293, when the Greeks retook Kalamata. Florent did not despair and did not reopen the war which had been ongoing until his succession: he instead sent an embassy in protest to Michael VIII Palaeologus. The emperor returned Kalamata. In 1296, the Greeks retook the castle of Saint George in Arcadia. Florent besieged the castle, but died before it could be taken.

[edit] Sources

* Grousset, René. L'Empire du Levant: Histoire de la Question d'Orient.

Preceded by
Charlse II Prince of Achaea
1289 – 1299 Succeeded by
Philip of Savoy

From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 5 JAN 1998.
From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 5 JAN 1998.
From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 5 JAN 1998.
From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 5 JAN 1998.
From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 5 JAN 1998.
From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 5 JAN 1998.
From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 5 JAN 1998.

{geni:occupation} Stadholder of Zeeland, Prince of Achaia & Andravida 1289 -1297 with his wife Isabella

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