Hugh of Jabala

Hugo was of Jabala ( Hugo of Dschabla ) around the middle of the 12th century Bishop of Dschabla in the Principality of Antioch.

After the County of Edessa was conquered in 1144 by Zengi, sent Prince Raymond of Antioch Hugo to Pope Eugene III. at his residence to Viterbo to this to ask for help. Hugo reached Italy in November 1145th Eugene III. adopted, on December 1, 1145, the papal letter Quantum praedecessores to the King of France, in which he called for the Second Crusade. Hugo told the chroniclers and Bishop Otto of Freising well above the presbyter John, a mythical Nestorian Christian priest-king of a realm beyond of Persia, from the support of the Crusader States was expected to fight the Saracens. Otto gave this story in his world chronicle Chronica sive Historia de duabus civitatibus again. The Chronicle is the first documented mention of the elusive Presbyter John's legend.