Hugh I of Jaffa

Hugo Le Puiset called Hugotin, (franz Hugues du Puiset; † after 1118) was a Hugo II Lord of Le Puiset and Viscount of Chartres, as well as Hugh I, Count of Jaffa. He was a younger son of the Lord Hugh I Le Puiset and Alix of Montlhery.

Hugo's older brother, Evrard III. Le Puiset, 1097 joined the First Crusade, on which he died. During the absence of his brother and the duration of the immaturity of his nephew, Hugh III. Le Puiset, Hugh II took over the management of the family property.

During this time he had of Roucy ( † after 1122), daughter of Count II of Roucy Ebles out of the house Montdidier married Mabille. This was related to a maternal granddaughter of Robert Guiscard and so with the Norman dynasty Hauteville in southern Italy. His maternal cousins Baldwin of Bourcq and Joscelin of Courtenay had risen in the Holy Land to the King of Jerusalem and Count of Edessa.

In 1106, another cousin Hugo, the crusade leader Bohemond of Taranto appeared in France around there knight in the fight against the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos to recruit. Hugo joined him and moved with his family to Puglia. In 1107 he fought for Bohemond in Epirus against Byzantium, against which they were, however, inferior. After 1108, the peace was sealed by the Treaty of Devol, Hugo traveled on alone to the Holy Land, where he for the first time in a document of King Baldwin I, dated 28 September 1110 which is called as a witness.

Hugo was probably appointed Count of Jaffa by King Baldwin II, however, the date of investiture is unknown. William of Tyre recorded the act for the year 1118, however, erroneously associated with Hugo's arrival in Palestine. Since Hugo but definitely already in 1110 stayed in the country, only a point in time between these years can be assumed. Hugo's date of death is unknown, but it might not have been lying after 1118.

His widow went to after his death to the Holy Land and married Albert of Namur, who administered the county Jaffa to 1123 for Hugo's still underage son Hugh II.