Villehardouin

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1. Villehardouin (F-10220) is a village in France, 30 km north-east of Troyes.

2. The Villehardouins were a noble family from Villehardouin, Champagne. Two members of the family, both named Geoffrey, joined the Fourth Crusade and became part of the nobility of the Latin Empire.

• Geoffrey of Villehardouin, knight, crusader (Fourth Crusade), Marshal of Romania (the Latin Empire) and author of the "Chronicle of The Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinople"
• Geoffrey I Villehardouin, nephew of Geoffrey of Villehardouin, knight, crusader who went to Palestine and later came to help William of Champlitte to conquer Morea, became Prince of Achaea after William's death.
• Geoffrey II Villehardouin, prince of Achaea, first son of Geoffrey I Villehardouin
• William II Villehardouin, the last Villehardouin prince of Achaea, son of Geoffrey I Villehardouin
• Theodore Villehardouin, Patriarch of Antioch, son of Geoffrey I Villehardouin
• Princess Margaret of Villehardouin, daughter of William II Villehardouin
• Princess Isabella of Villehardouin, daughter of William II Villehardouin