Balthasar von Braunschweig, despot of Romania

(la figlia Bella sposerà, nel gennaio 1379, Baldassare di Brunswick, cognato di Giovanna I)

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g) BALTHASAR von Braunschweig ([1336]-Castel Sant'Elmo after 14 Jan 1384). Engelhusius’s Genealogia ducum Brunswicensium names “Ottonem, Balthasar et Thomam” as the three sons of “[Dux] Henricus”[239]. Canon of St Blasius at Braunschweig 1354/61. “Balthasar...Hertoghe to Brunswych” notified various documents to the council of Göttingen, including arrangements benefiting “unses Broder hertoghen Otten”, by charter dated 10 Nov 1370[240]. He was awarded the title Despot of Romania in 1376 by his sister-in-law Jeanne I Queen of Sicily, who also arranged his marriage. After Queen Jeanne was deposed, Balthasar was captured by her successor Charles III and blinded 5 Aug 1382 in the Market Place of Naples on his orders. He died in prison[241].

m (1379) as her first husband, GIACOBELLA Caetani, daughter of ONORATO Caetani Conte di Fondi & his wife Catarina del Balzo (-after 25 May 1400). She married secondly Henri de Blois-Châtillon.