Talk:Walter V, Count of Brienne

May I ask?

In the main site you (Wiki) wrote;

"Walter spent his youth as a hostage in Sicily, in the castle of Agosta. On the death of his father Hugh in 1296, Walter inherited the titles of Count of Brienne, Conversano and Lecce. Like his father, he took up arms in the service of Naples, but was captured in an ambush at Gagliano in 1300. He was freed in 1302 with the signing of the Treaty of Caltabellotta." And, within these words exists a hyperlink to, "Gagliano!", and some "ambush" conducted there! But, for anyone to rely upon "Wiki" to insure that such hyper-link actually takes one to a site that explains the so called "ambush" is mostly likely to be disappointed, since none of the links provided, take on to such a place! I hate to be so critical, but I find such things all of the time. I would suggest that if any Wiki writer attempts to make a connection or hyper-link to another site, that it might well have some relevance to the topic at hand!96.19.156.227 (talk) 20:08, 27 June 2011 (UTC)Ronald L. Hughes

Requested move 11 February 2019

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the page to the proposed title at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 19:41, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

---

Walter V, Count of Brienne → Walter V of Brienne – He is best known by his family name (of Brienne), not by one of his many titles (Count of Brienne), especially because he was also Duke of Athens and Count of Lecce and Conversano. The latest monography dedicated to the Brienne family uses the proposed new name [I refer to Perry, Guy (2018). The Briennes: The Rise and Fall of a Chempenois Dynasty in the Age of the Crusades, c. 950–1356. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-19690-2.] Borsoka (talk) 08:52, 11 February 2019 (UTC)--Relisting. Dekimasuよ! 16:51, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

• Oppose. Creates needless inconsistency. This isn't a "name" issue. His name was Walter. Count of Brienne was one of his titles because Brienne was one of his fiefs. His numeral is, I strongly suspect, a modern convention. We are combining things in a way that makes it clear which Walter of all the Walters there have been this article is about. Both the current title and the proposed title are fine, but we should be consistent. I do not necessarily agree with the assertion that "of Brienne" is a family name. I'd have to look into it, but a glance at the primary sources I can access shows "of Brienne" always preceded by "count". Srnec (talk) 23:03, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

@Srnec:, could you refer to secondary sources using the present name? Why do you think the proposed name would create inconsistency? Borsoka (talk) 01:22, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

The index of the book you cited has "Walter V, count of Brienne and duke of Athens". As for inconsistency, all the counts of Brienne of the first house at County of Brienne and Template:Counts of Brienne are titled "[Name] [Numeral], Count of Brienne". Srnec (talk) 01:30, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

@Srnec:, no, the index of that book has "Walter V, duke of Athens, count of Brienne and Lecce". Furthermore, the title of that book shows that Brienne was his family name. Borsoka (talk) 02:01, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

You are right. I meant Guy Perry's other book, John of Brienne: King of Jerusalem, Emperor of Constantinople, c.1175–1237. That index says "Walter V, count of Brienne and duke of Athens". I do not believe the title shows what you want it to show. It shows that Perry is calling the family "Briennes". It does not show that "(de) Brienne" was in their time a family name. For example, was Walter V called "Walter of Brienne" because of his family or because he was the count of Brienne? Srnec (talk) 02:17, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

So, the forms Habsburgs and Bourbons do not suggest that these are family names, because they were counts of Habsburg and Bourbon, respectivelly? Borsoka (talk) 03:03, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

I do not believe that Habsburg was Rudolf I's family name. And that's the relevant comparison. (Although, for what it's worth, I am not in fact sure that either Bourbon or Habsburg was a family name—would they not have called themselves "of France" and "of Austria" when needed?) Srnec (talk) 03:44, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

So when Perry writes of John of Brienne, he does not use John's family name? Sorry, neither do I understand your reference to inconsistency. Walter was also duke of Athens and count of Lecce and Conversano. Why do you think we should only take into account only one of his many titles? Walter's predecessor in Athens is named "Guy II de la Roche" and the new title would be consistent with it. Borsoka (talk) 03:53, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

@Borsoka: I do not know whether Brienne was a family name by Walter V's time, but I suspect it was not in John of Brienne's time. See T. Evergates, The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100–1300 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), p. 133: "Champagne and eastern France [show] a clear preference for second names based on placenames [reflecting] a desire to be identified by the locus of one's lordship [...] rather than by one's family or place of origin. Chancery scribes as well as monastic scribes in Champagne identified laymen by the location of their properties rather than by family name" and "fluidity in second names reflects the absence of fixed surnames before the mid-thirteenth century". On p. 135 he discusses our Erard of Brienne-Ramerupt as an exception to the rule, one who used the Brienne name despite not having a personal connection with the place. He says "the arrogation of the Briennc name died with him" and he does not mention Brienne in his discussion of hereditary surnames on pp. 137ff. It is possible that by Walter V's time Brienne had become a family name, but it is hard to know with Walter himself since Count of Brienne was one of his titles. Srnec (talk) 21:17, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Neither do I know whether it was a family name in John's time. However, a specialist, Perry, uses it as a family name when referring to John of Brienne and to the Briennes in the titles of his books dedicated to him and them, respectively. Many of the Briennes (including Walter V of Brienne) lived after the mid-13th century, so we cannot refer to Evergates' above quoted text when writing of them. Borsoka (talk) 01:23, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

---

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.