Hugo I de Puise ( fr. Hugues du Puiset ; d. After 1118) - Senor de Puise and Viscount Chartres in 1097-1106 (as Hugo II), the first Earl of Jaffa .
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Biography
The youngest son of Hugo I de Puise and his wife Alix de Montlery.
During the participation of his brother (Evrard III) in the First Crusade and after his death, he was the guardian of a minor nephew and managed the clan estates.
In 1106, at the call of Boemund of Taranto (a relative of his wife), he went to Epirus to fight Byzantium . Two years later, peace was made, and Hugo de Puise sailed to the Holy Land .
King of Jerusalem Baldwin I appointed him Earl of Jaffa . It happened between 1110 and 1118.
Hugo de Puise was last mentioned in 1118.
Wife - Mabilla de Rus (d. After 1122), daughter of Count Ebla II de Rus . After the death of her husband, she went to the Holy Land. There she married Albert Namursky , who ruled the county of Jaffa until 1122 as the guardian of Hugo II de Puise , the son of Hugo I.
Literature
- John L. La Monte: The Lords of Le Puiset on the Crusades in: Speculum, Vol. 17, No. 1 (1942)
- Jonathan Riley-Smith, Atlas des Croisades, Edition Autrement, coll. "Atlas / Mémoires", Paris, 1996 (réimpr. 1996), 192 p. ( ISBN 2-86260-553-0 ), p. 34.
- Alan V. Murray, The crusader Kingdom of Jérusalem: A Dynastic History, 1099-1125, 2000