Ehremar

Ehremar of Therouanne (also Evremar or Ebramar; † after 1124 ) was Patriarch of Jerusalem, Archbishop of Caesarea.

Ehremar was a priest from Therouanne in France. To 1096, he joined the First Crusade, and came with him in 1099 to the Holy Land. In the newly established Kingdom of Jerusalem, it soon came to the conflict between the King and the Patriarch of Jerusalem, the detriment to the establishment of their power in the kingdom of the other struggled. In 1102, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Dagobert of Pisa, was deposed from the papal legate, Robert of Paris, after King Baldwin I of Jerusalem had accused him of serious misconduct. The local bishops beat the legate then Ehremar ago as candidates for the patriarchate. This was known for his piety and charity, but had little political experience. King Baldwin, too, support honor Mars appointment because he hoped that this less interference in its politics. Scrooge went, however, to exile in Antioch

In May 1104 he took the army of Baldwin I. in the successful siege of Acre, where he mediated between the king and the hired Genoese fleet. As a Fatimid army invaded the Kingdom of Jerusalem in August 1105 put together Ehremar own contingent of 150 soldiers and joined Jerusalem coming at Ramla with the coming of Jaffa army of Baldwin I. together. He led the troops to raise morale with the holy cross and blessed the troops immediately before the following victorious Third Battle of Ramla.

Also in 1105 came Scrooge to Rome, where the Pope Paschal II in an appeal against his dismissal initiated by Baldwin I lectured. This explained the appointment of honorary Mars invalid and sat back Dagobert, who, however, still died on the way back to Jerusalem. Ehremar traveled under its own to Rome, arguing own accusations against Baldwin I.. Paschal II was inclined now to confirm Ehremar as patriarch, but posted because of the obvious political sensitivity of the Archbishop of Arles Ghibelin as legate to Jerusalem to settle the matter. This was Ehremar for unsuitable as Patriarch and declared the office vacant. In the following Synod I. Ghibelin was even used as a patriarch in the spring of 1108, on a proposal of Baldwin. Ehremar however, was installed as the new Archbishop of Caesarea, this post was conveniently just became available.

In 1119 he was again with the Holy Cross at the Royal army, which is now operating under Baldwin II in the north against the Ortoqiden. In 1120 he was present at the Council of Nablus in 1124 and was one of the signatories of the Pactum Warmundi, a treaty of alliance between the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Republic of Venice. His exact date of death is not known.