Florent de Hainaut

Florent de Hainaut , born towards 1255, dead the January 23rd 1297, was prince d' Achaïe and of Morée of 1289 with 1297. It was wire of Jean d' Avesnes, count heir to Hainaut and Adelaide of Holland.

He was governor of Zealand, then put at the service Charles II of Anjou, king de Naples and becomes Connétable kingdom of Naples.

The September 16th 1289 it married Isabelle de Villehardouin († 1312), princess of Achaïe and Morée, girl of Guillaume II of Villehardouin and Anne Ange, and widow of Philippe of Anjou (1256 † 1277). They had only one girl:

Mathilde (1293 † 1331), princess of Achaïe and Morée, married four times:
# Guy of the Rock († 1308), duke of Athens
# in 1313 Louis of Burgundy (1297 † 1316), titular king of Thessalonique and prince d' Achaïe
# in 1318 (separate in 1321) Jean of Anjou (1294 † 1336), duke of Durazzo and prince d' Achaïe
# Hugues of Palice

The husbands settled in Morée and Florent negotiated with Byzance the treaty of Klarentza in 1290. Indeed, now that Angevins had been driven out of Sicily, the reconquest of the Latin empire of Constantinople became illusory, as well as the sending in Morée of troops of reinforcement. Also the interest of the new prince was to put an end to the war which ruined the principality.

But peace remained precarious and the Greeks seized Kalamata in 1293. Florent sent to an embassy in protest near Michel VIII Paleologist and the fortified town was returned in Morée. In 1296, a notable Greek seized the castle of Saint-Geoges in Arcadie. Florent besieged the castle, but died during the seat.

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