Renier of Trit

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Renier of Trit

Renier of Trit was the first Frankish

Latin Empire

The Latin Empire or Latin Empire of Constantinople is the name given by historians to the Crusader state founded by the leaders of the Fourth Crusade on lands captured from the Byzantine Empire after their sack of Constantinople in 1204 and ended in 1261....
duke of Philippopolis (modern Plovdiv

Plovdiv

Plovdiv is the second-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia, with a population of 379,119. It is the administrative centre of Plovdiv Province in southern Bulgaria and three municipalities , as well as the largest and most important city in Northern Thrace and the wider international historical region of Thrace....
, Bulgaria

Bulgaria

The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
) from 1204 to 1205. He was a knight from Trith-Saint Léger, Hainaut

County of Hainaut

The County of Hainaut was a historical region in the Low Countries. It consisted of what is now the Belgium province of Hainaut and the southern part of the French d?partement Nord ....
, on the Fourth Crusade

Fourth Crusade

The Fourth Crusade was originally designed to conquer Islam Jerusalem by means of an invasion through Egypt. Instead, in April 1204, the Crusaders of Western Europe invaded and conquered the Christianity city of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire....
.

Renier was granted Philippopolis and the territory as far as the river Maritsa

Maritsa

The Maritsa or Evros is, with a length of 480 km, the longest river that runs solely in the interior of the Balkans. It has its origin in the Rila Mountains in Western Bulgaria, flowing southeast between the Stara Planina and Rhodope Mountains, past Plovdiv and Parvomay to Edirne, Turkey....
by the Emperor Baldwin I

Baldwin I of Constantinople

Baldwin I , the first emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople, as Baldwin IX Count of Flanders and as Baldwin VI County of Hainaut, was one of the most prominent leaders of the Fourth Crusade, which resulted in the capture of Constantinople, the conquest of the greater part of the Byzantine Empire, and the foundation of the...
following the October 1204 partition of the conquered and yet to be conquered lands of the Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople....
. Renier's land lay within the modern realm of Bulgaria

Second Bulgarian Empire

The Second Bulgarian Empire was a medieval Bulgarian state which existed between 1185 and 1396 . A successor of the First Bulgarian Empire, it reached the peak of its power under Kaloyan of Bulgaria and Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria before gradually declining to be conquered by the Ottomans in the late 14th-early 15th century....
, in territory claimed by Byzantium and subsequently the Franks.

Renier's first campaigns that fall and winter to take possession of his imperial fief were successful, but the next year Bulgarian tsar

Tsar

Tsar or czar , occasionally spelled csar or tzar in English language, is a slavs term designating certain monarchs.Originally, the title Czar meant Emperor in the European medieval sense of the term, that is, a ruler who has the same rank as a Ancient Rome or Byzantine emperor due to recognition by another emperor or...
Kaloyan

Kaloyan of Bulgaria

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Renier of Trit was the first Frankish

Latin Empire

Plovdiv

Bulgaria

County of Hainaut

Fourth Crusade

Maritsa

Baldwin I of Constantinople

Byzantine Empire

Second Bulgarian Empire

Tsar

Kaloyan of Bulgaria

Kaloyan the Romanslayer , Ivan I , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1197-1207. He was born in about 1168/1169. The name Kalojan , signifies the "Good John" or the "Handsome John", and is derived from Greek Kaloioannes, a standard augmentation of the names of Byzantine emperors named "John" in the Komnenian and later periods....
swooped down and took Adrianople and threatened Philippopolis. Renier, with only a small force remaining at his command, holed up in the castle of Stenimaka. It was during an effort to relieve Adrianople that the emperor Baldwin was captured. In the summer, the Paulicians of Philippopolis tried to surrender the city to Kaloyan, but Renier sallied from his fortress and razed their quarter of the city, leaving the rest to the brave defence of the united Latin and Greek populations. Nevertheless, the city was taken and the Greek quarter burned. Later that same year, the imperial regent Henry of Flanders

Henry of Flanders

Henry , was the second emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople.He was a younger son of Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut , and Margaret I, Countess of Flanders, sister of Philip, Count of Flanders, count of Flanders....
marched into Bulgaria and relieved Stenimaka

Asenovgrad

Asenovgrad is a town in central southern Bulgaria. It is located in Plovdiv Province and is close to the city of Plovdiv.Asenovgrad was originally founded by the Thracians as Stenimahos around 300-400 BC....
and Renier.

Sources

Setton, Kenneth M. (general editor) A History of the Crusades: Volume II — The Later Crusades, 1189 – 1311. Robert Lee Wolff and Harry W. Hazard, editors. University of Wisconsin Press: Milwaukee, 1969.