Frederick de la Roche
Friedrich von La Roche (French Frédéric de La Roche, † October 30, 1174 in Nablus ) was bishop of Acre, Archbishop of Tyre and Chancellor of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. As such, he was also known as Frederick of Acre or Frederick of Tyre.
He was a younger son of Henry I ( † before 1138 ), Count of La Roche -en- Ardenne Lorraine from the noble family of Namur.
Bishop of Acre
Frederick was choir master of the Templum Domini in Jerusalem before he was to 1148 Bishop of Acre. Around 1150 he was Chancellor of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. He participated in the siege of Ascalon in 1153. 1154 sent him to King Baldwin III. to convey to Antioch to the dispute between the local princes Raynald of Châtillon and the local patriarch Aimerich of Limoges. Aimerich finally went to Jerusalem into exile. 1155 Friedrich accompanied the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Fulk of Angoulême, to Rome to complain to Pope Adrian IV, on the behavior of some monasteries and churches of Jerusalem who refused to recognize the authority of the Patriarch. When in 1157 Archbishop Hernesius of Caesarea, and Bishop Ralph of Bethlehem against the election of Amalric of Nesle was opposed to the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Frederick turned to the side of Amalric and again traveled to Rome to carry forward the matter Hadrian IV. There he reached Hadrian's confirmation of the new patriarch.
Archbishop of Tyre
After 1164, Archbishop Peter of Tyre had died in March, Friedrich was appointed at the request of King Amalric I. to succeed him. At Amalric's Egyptian campaign in 1167 Friedrich participated with its own quota. However, Frederick became ill in Egypt and soon returned to Tyre. In August 1167, he led in Tyre marriage of Amalric with the Byzantine princess Maria Comnena.
As Amalric's 1169 campaign in Egypt had failed, the king sent an embassy to Europe to solicit financial support for the Crusader states and to obtain a new crusade. The first mission, which was led by Amalric of Nesle and Ernesius, Archbishop of Caesarea, came in the Mediterranean Sea in a storm and had to turn back. King Amalric then sent a second embassy under Archbishop Friedrich, Bishop John of Banyas and Guibert, the preceptor of the Knights. In July they reached Rome and met with Pope Alexander III, but no one took the monarchs of Europe ready to support the distant Crusader states. , Louis VII of France and Henry II of England just waged war against each other, after all, Frederick Henry was able to persuade money to donate and promise a future pilgrimage. Frederick Barbarossa was in constant dispute with the Pope, since he in 1160 by Alexander III. had been excommunicated, so that was to be expected no support from him.
The delegation also had the task of finding a suitable husband for the then eleven year old Princess Sibylla of Jerusalem, IV, given the leprosy of her brother Baldwin had a good chance of succeeding to the throne. In France Frederick persuaded the Count Stephen I of Sancerre, a brother of King Louis VII to come to the east and marry Sibylla. The embassy returned in the summer of 1171 to Jerusalem, together with Stephen and Duke Hugh III. of Burgundy, who came as a representative of Louis VII. However, for unclear reasons, the marriage project failed after a short time, and the young Count returned to France, having married without the princess.