Juliana Grenier

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Juliana or Julianne Grenier (died 1213×16) was the

Lady of Caesarea, which she inherited from her brother, Walter II, upon his death between 1189 and 1191. When she inherited the lordship, it had recently been conquered by Saladin, but in September 1192 it was restored to her rule by the Treaty of Jaffa. The city and its fortifications, however, were not rebuilt in her lifetime.[1]

Juliana was the only daughter of Lord

Naplouse. The jurist John of Ibelin in his treatise on the Assises records a list of fiefs and the service they owed around 1184: a certain lady of Caesarea is said to have owed two knights' service for lands near Naplouse.[1]

Juliana's first husband, Guy, was a brother of

marshal of Cyprus
.

Juliana's second husband,

Khirbat Nisf Jubail) for the salvation of her parents' souls. Her family had a long relationship with the Hospitallers, which she continued by joining the order as a lay sister (consoror) with the right to be buried in the Hospitaller cemetery.[1]

In 1212–13, Juliana and Aymar took out of a couple of loans from the Hospitallers "because of poverty" (compulsi penuria).[1] There is also a later record, attesting to their monetary needs, that some time before 1243 a lady of Caesarea had sold land to the Teutonic Knights. In the first loan, houses in Acre and Tyre, as well as the casale of Turcarme, were pledged in return for 2,000 bezants. In the second, the casalia of Capharlet, Samarita and Buffles (castellanum Bubalorum, or Bablūn) were pledged for 1,000 bezants. Juliana never appears in a charter again after the loan of October 1213, and as Aymar never again bore the title of lord, it can be assumed that she was dead by February 1216, when Aymar first signs a charter without the lordly title.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g John L. LaMonte, "The Lords of Caesarea in the Period of the Crusades", Speculum 22, 2 (1947): 152–54.
  2. ^ LaMonte, "Lords of Caesarea", 152 n. 49, believes that the Lord Guy of Caesarea of an 1176 charter of Baldwin of Ibelin must have been Walter II's older brother, Guy, but the French historian Emmanuel Guillaume-Rey believes it was Juliana's husband.
Preceded by
Lord of Caesarea

1189/93–1213/6
Succeeded by