Eustace Grenier

Eustace I. Garnier (also granarius, Grenier, Agrain; † shortly after June 15, 1123) was a Crusader, Lord of Caesarea and Count of Sidon, and constable and bailiff of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

He came from Therouanne in the former county of Flanders.

He accompanied the Count Hugh II of St. Pol to the First Crusade. After the conquest of Jerusalem, he remained in the Holy Land and distinguished himself in 1105 at the Third Battle of Ramla from. 1109 he appeared as an envoy King Baldwin I and took part in the conquest of Tripoli.

The city of Caesarea had conquered the Crusaders in 1101. A little later, Eustace was invested with the rule Caesarea. When Baldwin I. had conquered with the help of the Crusade King Sigurd of Norway Sidon, Eustace also received the county Sidon in 1110.

A little later he married Emelotte (also Emoleta, Emolata, Ermeline, Emme, Emma ), the niece of the Patriarch of Jerusalem Arnulf of Chocques, and received from Arnulf church property Jericho as a dowry. With her he had two sons, Gerhard Garnier (also known as Eustace I. Garnier ) and Walter I. Garnier.

He took part in the unsuccessful sieges of Shaizar and Tyre.

When King Baldwin II was taken prisoner in 1123, Eustace was elected constable and bailiff of Jerusalem. As such, he proposed on May 29, 1123 a Fatimid invasion army at Ibelin.

He died shortly after the June 15, 1123 and was buried in Jerusalem. His sons Gerhard and Walter took over his dominions. His wife married in the same year Hugh II of Le Puiset, who was only slightly older than their sons.