Daughter of Albert de Corbeil, Count de Corbeil and Elizabeth de Corbeil Wife of Mauger, Count of Corbeil Mother of Guillaume Guerlenc de Corbeil, Count de Corbeil et d'Avranches; Hamon "Dentatus" de Creuilly, de Crevecoeur and Waldonius, count of Saint-Clair
Daughter of Wallerand de Corbie and Jeanne de Rosières Wife of Drogon d'Amiens Mother of Adila de Ponthieu and Adelesme I d'Amiens Sister of Gauthier I de Corbie
Corinth derives its name from Ancient Corinth, a city-state of antiquity. The site was occupied from before 3000 BC. Historical references begin with the early 8th century BC, when Corinth began to develop as a commercial center. Between the 8th and 7th centuries, the Bacchiad family ruled Corinth. Cypselus overthrew the Bacchiad family, and between 657 and 550 BC, he and his son Periander ruled Corinth as the Tyrants. In about 550 BC, an oligarchical government seized power. This government allied with Sparta within the Peloponnesian League, and Corinth participated in the Persian Wars and Peloponnesian War as an ally of Sparta. After Sparta's victory in the Peloponnesian war, the two allies fell out with one another, and Corinth pursued an independent policy in the various wars of the early 4th century BC. After the Macedonian conquest of Greece, the Acrocorinth was the seat of a Macedonian garrison until 243 BC, when the city was liberated and joined the Achaean League. Nearly a century later, in 146 BC, Corinth was captured and was completely destroyed by the Roman army. The Roman sack of Corinth in 146 BC (Thomas Allom, 1870) As a newly rebuilt Roman colony in 44 BC, Corinth flourished and became the administrative capital of the Roman province of Achaea.[3] In 1858, the old city, now known as Ancient Corinth (Αρχαία Κόρινθος, Archaia Korinthos), located 3 kilometres (1.9 miles) south-west of the modern city, was totally destroyed by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake. New Corinth (Nea Korinthos) was then built to the north-east of it, on the coast of the Gulf of Corinth. In 1928, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake devastated the new city, which was then rebuilt on the same site.[4] In 1933, there was a great fire, and the new city was rebuilt again.