Hugh IV, Count of Saint-Pol

Hugo IV (franz Hugues IV, † 1205 in Didymotika ) was a Count of Saint-Pol from the house Candavène. He was a son of Count Anselm of Saint- Pol.

1180 Hugo was a guest at the wedding of King Philip II of France and Isabelle of Hainaut in Bapaume. From 1190 he took part in the wake of Count Philip of Flanders in the Third Crusade.

Hugo feuded with Count Rainald I of Dammartin he warred openly as the royal court in 1197 stayed in Saint- Pol.

In 1200 he again took the cross and escorted from 1202 to Count Baldwin IX. of Flanders on the Fourth Crusade. During the siege of Zara, he agreed to the offer of Prince Alexios Angelos to a train to Constantinople Opel. In several letters to the courts of Western Europe Hugo told of the first siege of Constantinople in 1203, and finally from the conquest of the city of 1204. An addressed to Duke Henry I of Brabant letter, dated July 18, 1203, the first report of this crusade was ever of the West reached. At the coronation of Baldwin of Flanders Emperor Hugo acted as sword-bearer.

Hugo died in Didymotika, supposedly his corpse in the Abbey of Cercamp was transferred, although Villehardouin reported he was in the monastery of St. George was buried in Mangana in Constantinople Opel.

He was married to Yolande of Hainault, daughter of Count Baldwin IV of Hainaut. With her he had two daughters:

  • Elisabeth ( † before 1240), Countess of Saint-Pol, ∞ with Walter III. from Châtillon
  • Eustachie ( † before 1241 ), ∞ with John II of Nesle, Viscount of Bruges
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