Raoul of Merencourt

Radulf of Mérencourt ( Rudolf and Ralph, French Raoul de Mérencourt, † 1225 ) was Bishop of Sidon, Chancellor of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, as well as Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.

Albert came from Mérencourt, today's Saint- Benoist -sur -Vanne at Troyes in France.

1192 to 1202 he was a notary in the Registry of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. He was dean of the chapter of Acre, as he himself appointed in 1206 chancellor of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. To 1211 he became bishop of Sidon.

1213 he traveled as an envoy of the King of Jerusalem Jean de Brienne Pope.

After the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Albert Avogadro was in 1214 fell victim to an assassination attempt, Radulf was elected in February 1215, his successor. Because of his consecration as Patriarch, he had his office as Chancellor store that John of Brienne not new forgave.

In November 1215 he took part in the Fourth Lateran Council in part, on which he was ordained a Patriarch of Jerusalem, and in which a new crusade to recapture Jerusalem was especially adopted by the Muslims.

Radulf was designated as papal legate for the crusade. In 1217 he received the incoming crusade army in Acre and the troops accompanied with the following campaigns in Palestine and Egypt. He led the troops to raise morale with a fragment of the Holy Cross, which is not how most of this relic was lost at the Battle of Hattin in 1187.

A little later met Pelagius of Albano in the camp of the Crusaders one, which replaced Radulf as papal legate. Under his command of the crusade failed 1221st

1222 he traveled along with John of Brienne again to Italy, for marriage of John's daughter, the heiress Isabella II of Jerusalem with Emperor Frederick II and the latter to move to a crusade which he had promised for 1215.

He died at 1225th