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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 4988707, member: 56653&quot;]Thibaut IV dit &quot;le Chansonnier&quot; is a very important 13th century figure.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1198488[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Until 1222 when he came of age, Thibaut was under the regency of his mother Blanche de Navarre. During the 1220s he solidified his rule in Champagne with enormous material costs. In 1234 he inherited the Kingdom of Navarre and established himself as one of the most powerful barons in France and Spain. In 1239 he conducted the &quot;Barons Crusade&quot; -- one of the most successful crusading endeavors since the First Crusade, which brought back into the rule of the Kingdom of Jerusalem the City of Jerusalem (such as it was by this time) and most of the territory between the Jordan river and the Mediterranean Sea. Thibaut also remained in history as a great poet and trouvere.</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]k-gTUUgZCQo[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>His coinage in Provins continued the traditional denier ou provinois, which by the 1200s was widespread not only in the whole County of Champagne but in the neighboring fiefs too. The new design with the three towers was introduced perhaps around the 1210s, at the height of the denier parisis of Philip II Augustus of France, with which it circulated at a parity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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