Walter VI of Brienne (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter VI of Brienne (nee: Gaulterio de Candia, VI Comte de Brienne, c. 1304 - 19 September 1356) was Count of Brienne, Conversano, and Lecce, and titular Duke of Athens. Walter was the son of Walter V, Duke of Athens, and Jeanne de Chatillon (died 1354), the daughter of the Count of Porcien, a constable to King Philip IV of France.As grandson of Hugh of Brienne (d. 1296), he was heir to a vast property all around the Mediterranean. After his father's death at the Battle of Halmyros on 15 March 1311, Walter became Count of Brienne, etc., and Duke of Athens. However, all of the Duchy except for Argos and Nauplia had been overrun by the Catalan Company, and Walter spent much of his life in an unsuccessful struggle to recover that inheritance of his grandmother's family, until the 1340s when he moved to Italy and France and left Argos-Nauplia to be ruled by guardians.