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unusual facts about Theobald III, Count of Champagne


Alice of Champagne

When her father Henry II had enlisted in the Third Crusade, she was not yet married and he had stated in his will that the County of Champagne be left to his brother Theobald III, Count of Champagne unless he returned from the East.


Count of Champagne

Joan (1274–1305) and Philip I (1284–1305), also Joan I of Navarre and Philip IV of France and I of Navarre

Philip II, also Philip V of France and II of Navarre (1316-1322)

The latter's greatgrandaughter Joan married King Philip IV of France, and so the Crowns of France and Navarre were united for the first time.

When their son Louis became King of France in 1314, upon the death of his father Philip IV, Champagne became part of the Crown's territories.

Pierre Taittinger

Pierre Taittinger restored the House of the Counts of Champagne in the center of Reims, damaged by the Germans during the First World War, which had been the residence of the Counts of Champagne during the Middle Ages and which is now the property of Champagne Taittinger.

Theobald III, Count of Champagne

There was little enthusiasm for the crusade at first, but on November 28, 1199 various nobles of France gathered at Theobald's court for a tournament (in his Ecry-sur-Aisne's castle), including the preacher Fulk of Neuilly.


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