Always a Warrior!! December 28, 1218 –Sir Robert II de DREUX, Count of Dreux and Braine died. He was the eldest surviving son of Robert I, Count of Dreux, and Agnes de Baudemont, countess of Braine, and a grandson of King Louis VI of France. He was a crusader participating in the 3rd Crusade at the Siege of Acre (1189-1191 for a total of 23 months). It was also the deadliest event of the whole period of the Crusades for the Christian ruling class of the east. He was also at the Battle of Arsuf in which Richard I, King of England defeated Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria on September 7, 1191. He took part in the war in Normandy against the Angevin Kings between 1193 and 1204. Count Robert had seized the castle of Nonancourt from Richard I of England while he was imprisoned in Germany in late-1193. The count also participated in the Albigensian Crusade in 1210 initiated by Pope Innocent III to eliminate Catharism in Languedoc, in the south of France. The Crusade was prosecuted primarily by the French crown and promptly took on a political flavor, resulting in not only a significant reduction in the number of practicing Cathars but also a realignment of the County of Toulouse, bringing it into the sphere of the French crown and diminishing the distinct regional culture and high level of Aragonese influence. On July 27, 1214 he fought alongside King Philippe Augustus II at the Battle of Bouvines which ended the 12-year Angevin—Flanders war. It confirmed the French crowns sovereignty over the Angevin lands of Brittany and Normandy. Philip Augustus of France was the victor. The French leaders were King Philippe II Augustus, Robert, Count of Dreux, Philip of Dreux, Eudes III of Burgundy, and William II of Ponthieu. Opposing them where Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Sir William Longespee, Renaud of Boulogne, Ferrand of Flanders, Theobald I, Duke of Lorraine, and Henry I, Duke of Brabant.
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