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Who he is

Name

Not pinned: the house of Trainel

Title

Lord of Trainel

Since

Not pinned

Born

Not pinned

Family

Anseau of Trainel (numbered II or III in different genealogies) was butler of Champagne until about 1189, when Gaucher of Chatillon succeeded him; he married Hermesende of Bar-sur-Seine and they divorced in 1188. The bishop of Troyes, Garnier, is of the Gastebled family, vassals of the Trainels, not a Trainel himself (French Wikipedia).

Confidence

low

Lord on 1 January 1200 not found.

Overlord

Theobald III, count of Champagne

What it holds

• Trainel: castle and village
• Marigny-le-Chatel (a Trainel branch, not pinned for 1200)

How it was acquired

Hereditary.

Allies and rivals

The count; the archbishop of Sens's lands across the border.

How things stand that morning

Held.

Wealth

Not established.

Military

Castle of Trainel.

Where the sources disagree

• GM Church notes call the bishop of Troyes Garnier de Trainel; French Wikipedia says he was a Gastebled, a vassal family of the Trainels.

Evidence: Holder not pinned.

On the map: Castles only.

Primary sources for Champagne

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• Chronicle of Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Alberic of Trois-Fontaines (about 1227 to 1241, at the Cistercian abbey of Trois-Fontaines in Champagne). The widest net of any Latin chronicle for 1200, compiled from dozens of sources, many now lost. Read online
• Chronicle of Robert of Auxerre, Robert of Auxerre (Robert of Saint-Marien) (about 1190 to 1211; continued at Saint-Marien to 1227). A universal chronicle whose last twenty years are contemporary and well informed from Burgundy and the Auxerrois. Read online
• Universal Chronicle of the Anonymous of Laon, Anonymous (an English-born canon of Laon) (about 1219). A Picard chronicle whose author had lived in England and keeps an eye on both kingdoms. Read online
• Chronicle of Roger of Howden, Roger of Howden (about 1192 to 1201). The fullest single narrative for the year. Read online
• Deeds of Philip Augustus, Rigord (about 1186 to 1206, in stages). The French court's own chronicle for the year, from the monk of Saint-Denis who called himself the king's chronographer. Read online
• Deeds of Philip Augustus; The Philippide, William the Breton (Guillaume le Breton) (Gesta about 1214 to 1220; Philippide 1214 to 1224). William abridged Rigord for the years before 1207 and then continued him, so for 1200 the Gesta is a shortened Rigord with a few added touches: the Le Goulet settlement, Blanche's marriage, and the interdict. Read online
• The Conquest of Constantinople (Villehardouin), Geoffrey of Villehardouin (about 1207 to 1213). Opens with the preaching of Fulk of Neuilly and the tournament at Ecry (28 November 1199) where Theobald III of Champagne and Louis of Blois took the cross, then the taking of the cross by Baldwin of Flanders, Hugh of Saint-Pol, Geoffrey of Perche and others through early 1200, the assemblies at Soissons and Compiegne in 1200, and the six envoys sent to Venice in the winter of 1200 to 1201. Read online
• The Conquest of Constantinople, Robert de Clari, knight of Picardy (about 1205 to 1216). A rank-and-file crusader's account that begins with the preaching of the crusade and the taking of the cross in 1199 to 1200 by the counts of Flanders, Blois and Champagne and by the Picard lords, among them Peter of Amiens, Robert's own lord, then the negotiations with Venice. Read online

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