Warmund, Patriarch of Jerusalem

Garamond of Picquigny (also Warmund or Gormond, † 1128 in Sidon ) was a French prelate and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.

He came from the family of the lords of Picquigny in Picardy.

After the death of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Arnulf of Chocques, he became his successor in 1119. He cultivated a close relationship with King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, which he further solidified in 1120 at the Council of Nablus. In June 1120 he accompanied the royal army during the campaign in defense of the Principality of Antioch against Ilghazi and smoothened the safe custody of the entrained to increase the morale Holy Cross.

When Baldwin II was from 1123 to 1124 taken prisoner, he organized the regency of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and appointed as Eustace Garnier and after his death William I of Bures to the constable and bailiff of the kingdom. During this time he acted at the turn of 1123/1124 an alliance between the Kingdom and the Republic of Venice, named after him Pactum Warmundi, and led in 1124 the supreme command in the successful siege of Tyre.

He died at the beginning of the year 1128 in Sidon, and was succeeded by Stephen of La Ferté, the abbot of the monastery of Saint- Jean-en -Vallee at Chartres.

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