Gerard Grenier

Gerhard Garnier (* 1110, † 1171 at the latest) was as Gerard of Sidon Count of Sidon.

He succeeded his father as Count Eustace I. Garnier of Sidon, his twin brother Walter I. Garnier inherited the rule of Caesarea.

The chronicler William of Tyre calls him for an unknown reason partially Eustace II Garnier and Eustace the Younger.

He married Agnes of Bures, daughter of William I of Bures, Prince of Galilee, widow of Rainer Brus, lord of Banias. With her he had two sons, Rainald (* 1133, † 1204) and Walter (* 1137 ) and a daughter, William, married the Lord of Nephin.

In 1139 he received the Beaufort Castle, on the road from Tyre to Damascus, the king Fulk had conquered.

1153, during the siege of Ascalon, he participated as a commander of a fleet of 15 galleys, which should block the city.

He is mentioned in a document in 1165 for the last time, his son and successor Rainald was first mentioned in 1171 as the new Lord of Sidon.