Sibylla of Anjou
Modern Standardized Name
Sibylla of Anjou
Titles
countess of Flanders
Origin
Bruges (51.208889, 3.224167)
Expedition Date/s
1157
Biography
Sibylla was daughter of Fulk V of Anjou, king of Jerusalem. She married first the ill-fated William Clito, claimant to the county of Flanders, and subsequently Thierry of Alsace, the successful claimant. During Thierry's first crusade expedition, he left Sibylla as regent of the county of Anjou. When Thierry took the cross for the third time in 1157, Sibylla traveled with him. During their sojourn in Jerusalem, she elected to join the convent of Mary and Martha at Bethany and refused to return to her husband.
Source
The Chronique d’Ernoul and the Colbert-Fontainebleau Continuation of William of Tyre, Volume 1: Chronique d’Ernoul, ed. Peter Edbury and Massimiliano Gaggero, (Leiden: Brill, 2023), pp. 78-79.
Bibliography
Natasha Hodgson, Women, Crusading and the Holy Land in Historical Narrative (Woodbridge, UK, 2007), 121. Danielle Park, Papal Protection and the Crusader: Flanders, Champagne, and the Kingdom of France (Woodbridge: the Boydell Press, 2018), pp. 137-152.
Citation
“Sibylla of Anjou,” Independent Crusaders Project, accessed September 6, 2024, https://independentcrusadersproject.ace.fordham.edu/items/show/2379.