Tebaldo III of Champagne

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Origin
According to the Chronic Albric Monachi Trium Fontium, Tebaldo was the second son of the count of Champagne (count of Troyes and Count of Meaux) and of Brie, Henry I the Liberal and Maria of France, who, according to the chronicler and Benedictine monk, was the first Be the second archbishop of the city of Tiro, in today's Lebanon, and according to Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium Henry I the Liberal was the firstborn son of the Count of Blois, Chartres and Châteaudun, Provins, Lord of Sancerre and Amboise (Tebaldo IV), and then Count of Champagne (Contebri of Troyes and Count of Teaux Tebaldo

Biography
In 1190, his brother, the Count of Champagne, Henry II had left for the third Crusade, leaving the regency of Champagne County to his mother, Mary, sister of the King of France, Philip Augustus, as confirmed by the Recueil des historiens des Croisades. Historiens occidentaux. . In 1192, Henry, as confirmed by the Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium, had married the queen of the kingdom of Jerusalem, Isabella of Lusignano, becoming king of Jerusalem, with the support of the uncles, Philip Augustus and Riccardo Cuor of Leo; after agreeing a truce with Saladin, in 1197, with the arrival of the German crusaders, the war resumed; Henry died in that same year, falling from a window.

After Henry's death, his third husband, Isabella was given to wife for the fourth time in Amalric of Lusignano, succeeded to Guido's brother on the throne of Cyprus, and continued to reign over the kingdom of Jerusalem. As for the Champagne county, he was ruled by Tebaldo, along with his mother, Mary of France, on behalf of Henry's heirs, but, at the death of Mary, at the beginning of 1198, the king of France, Philip Augustus, granted the county to Tebaldo, as reported in the Recueil des historiens des croisades. Historiens occidentaux. .

Following the appeal of Pope Innocent III of 1198, Tebaldo, who, in November 1199, held a tournament in his castle of Écry-sur-Aisne, along with