Hugues de Fauquembergues
Hugues de Fauquembergues , killed in 1106, prince de Galilée and of Tibérias. Fauquembergues is located close to Saint-Omer, of or the name of Hugues de Saint-Omer which is sometimes given to him. It is also named Hugues de Saint Aldemer by some translators of Guillaume de Tyr. Since the seigniory of Fauquembergues belongs to the family of Saint-Omer, it is possible that Hugues is a junior by the family.
Originating in Thérouanne, it accompanied Baudouin by Boulogne in 1098 in the Comté of Edesse, then with Jerusalem in 1101. Tancrède de Hauteville having to ensure the regency of the Principality of Antioche, it accepted the Principauté of Galileo become thus vacant. He carried help to Baudouin Ier, king de Jérusalem, withdrawn in Joppé after the Bataille of Rowed, in 1102. In 1106, whereas it returned from a Turkish ground raid, its troop was taken in a ambush. It did not fear, with sixty ten knights, to face four thousand enemies. Having received some reinforcements, it beat them and put them in escape, but in its triumph it was reached of a wound of which it died shortly after (according to Guillaume de Tyr).
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