Henry of Grandpré

Henry II of Grandpré

count of Grandpré

Grandpré (49.3414, 4.8706)

1179

Henry II of Grandpré was count of Grandpré in the Ardennes, between the political powers of the county of Champagne and and the principalities of the Low Countries. He was the son of Henry I of Grandpré and Beatrix of Joinville, a powerful Champenois family with strong connections to crusading.Henry and his brother Geoffrey were present at Château-Thierry in 1178 together with Count Henry the Liberal of Champagne, by which time they had probably already all taken the cross to travel together to Jerusalem. Henry II's son, Henry III died on the Albigensian crusade.

Henry the Liberal, William Marshal, Ertaud the Chamberlain, Theobaldus de Fimis/Teobaldus de Fimis, Master Philip, Peter of Langres, Geoffrey (brother of Henry of Grandpré), Robert of Milly, Milo of Pevinno, William of Saint Maur, Master Hugh, Nicholas the chaplain, Petro Bristaudo, Peter of Courtney, Bishop Philip of Beauvais

Henri d’Arbois de Jubainville, ‘Etudes sur les documents antérieurs à l’année 1285 conservés dans les archives des quatre petits hôpitaux de la ville de Troyes’, Mémoires de la société d'agriculture de l’Aube, sér. 2, 8 (1857), pp. 109-110=RRR 1025; Charles Kohler, ‘Chartes de l’abbaye de Notre-Dame de la vallée de Josaphat en Terre Sainte’, Revue de l’Orient Latin 7 (1899), 149-150=RRR 1046

Anatole Barthélemy, "Notice Historique sur la Maison de Grandpré," Revue de Champagne et de Brie 9 (1880), pp. 97-105.