Patriarch Fulk of Jerusalem

Fulk of Angoulême (also Fulcher, † November 20, 1157 ) was a French prelate, Archbishop of Tyre and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.

Origin

He came from Angoulême and was abbot of the monastery of Celles- sur -Belle. In 1131 he traveled to Jerusalem, where he was a canon of the Holy Sepulchre.

Archbishop of Tyre

1134 or 1135 he became the successor to the late Archbishop William of Tyre. He was consecrated by the Patriarch of Jerusalem, William of Messines. Because of disputes over the jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Jerusalem to Tyre, he traveled in the fall of 1138 to Rome to be confirmed by Pope Innocent II Archbishop his dignity and to let give his pallium.

1139 he took part in the siege of Banyas.

After the death of William of Messines he was, at the suggestion of Queen Melisende, his successor as patriarch.

Patriarch of Jerusalem

As in 1148, the Second Crusade reached the Holy Land, he received the German contingent under Conrad III. in Jerusalem and took the French under Louis VII from in Tripoli. He obtained that both monarchs with Baldwin III. homed from Jerusalem to the Council of Acre and not decided about the Crusader princes of Antioch, Tripoli and Edessa on how to proceed.

1152 he mediated in the struggle for the throne between Queen Melisende and her son King Baldwin III.

1153 he participated in the successful siege of Ascalon.

1154 came into conflict with the Order of St. John, the more privileges compared to the patriarch took out. 1155 he traveled so together with Bishop Frederick of Acre and other bishops to Pope Adrian IV, his action remained inconclusive.

When he died in 1157, he had reached an advanced age, William of Tyre calls him " a hundred years old ." His successor as patriarch was Amalric of Nesle.