Erard II Comte de Brienne

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 114:28, 120:29, Jean de Brienne, the younger son of Erard II comté de Brienne by Agnes de Montfaucon, daughter of Richard II de Montbéliard, Seigneur de Montfaucon by Sophie de Montbéliard. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Dates & Events. ¹⁸⁹
He faught in the third crusade and was killed at Acre.

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Erard de Brienne.
"Walterus Brenensis comes" granted "decimam reddituum suorum de Brena Castello" to the abbey of Basse-Fontaine by charter dated 22 Jan 1143, subscribed by "Airardi filii sui, Andree filii sui, Marie filie sue…Johannis de Brena clerici…Guidonis fratris comitis" [Basse-Fontaine 1, p. 1]. "G comes Brene" donated property to "ecclesie Sancte Marie de Rameruco" with the consent of "uxoris Adelisis, Erardi, Andreæ filium meorum atque Marie filie mee" by charter dated 1147 [Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes 1861, 5e série, t. 2, p. 456].

Erard married Agnes de Montbéliard, daughter of Richard II Comte de Montbelliard and Shopie de Montbéliard.¹⁶⁰ (Agnes de Montbéliard was born in 1150 in Burgogne.)