Aymar de Lairon

Aymar de Lairon (also Adémar, dt Aimerich by Lairon, Latin also Adeymar or Azemarus; † October 1218 before Damietta ) was by marriage Lord of Caesarea, and Marshal and Marshal of the Hospitaller of Jerusalem.

He was, like Dietrich of Dietrich von Termonde and Orgue, at the Crusaders, who remained in the Holy Land after the end of the Third Crusade. No later than 1192, he had, as its second husband, Juliane Garnier, Lady of Caesarea married, from their right, he led the Government of the rule Caesarea.

Aymar is the first time in 1193 as a witness a document of King Henry I called and titled as Aymar, Lord of Caesarea. In the following years, he is still on the deeds of King Henry I and Amalric II documented as a witness, indicating a major influence at the royal court. In 1206 he was finally appointed Marshal of the Kingdom. 1208 he was appointed by the Haute Cour to a member of that delegation, traveling to France and there should consult with King Philip II Augustus to a husband for the Queen Mary. The delegation was able to finally Johann result of Brienne by Outremer, where Aymar 1210 took part in the wedding and coronation.

Well at the end of the year 1213 died Juliane, which Aymar lost his position as lord of Caesarea, as a son of his wife inherited the barony from his first marriage. Apparently, he also gave up his position as royal marshal, because in 1216 he was first mentioned as Marshal of the Knights Hospitaller. With his knight brothers he accompanied King John on the 1218 crusade of Damietta ( Fifth Crusade ) to Egypt, where he was killed in the fighting around this port city in October of the same year.

From his marriage with Juliane Garnier he had a son named Roger, but probably died young. Furthermore, he had about his brother 's niece, Agnes de Lairon which married Gilles Brisebarre, Lord of Blanche Garde.

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