Hugh of Saint Omer

Life

The Flemish, now part of France places Fauquembergues and Saint-Omer in the immediate neighborhood. Hugo was actually Baron von Falkenberg, he and his family, who came to prestige during the Crusades, but was called " Saint -Omer ."

Hugo was born in 1098 Therouanne and accompanied the Earl Baldwin of Boulogne on the First Crusade and to Mesopotamia, where he founded the County of Edessa. 1100 Baldwin went on to the king of Jerusalem, and appointed to Hugo's Seneschal of Jerusalem. Tancred of Taranto in 1101 received the regency over the Principality of Antioch. King Baldwin was then Hugo Tancred vacant Principality of Galilee.

To assist in the conquest of the still held by the Fatimids city fortress of Tyre he made 1105, the castles Toron and Chastel Neuf build.

1106 Hugo took in an attack on the Seljuks in part, fell into an ambush, was captured and executed. The same fate would later his successor as Prince of Galilee, Gervaise Bazoches suffer.

Hugo had two daughters:

• Eschiva that William I of Bures, Lord of Caesarea, married and
• Helvis who married a unnamed "Franken from Outremer " and their daughter Agnes Walter III. Brisebarre, Lord of Beirut and Blanche Garde, married.