Walter II Grenier

Walter II Garnier († 1189-1191 Acre ) was a Lord of Caesarea in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. His parents were Hugo Garnier and Isabella of Gothman.

Walter followed between the years 1176 and 1182 his older brother, Guido Garnier, as lord of Caesarea to.

At the royal court, Walter probably belonged to the faction of his father against those of Guy of Lusignan, who ascended in 1186 to the king. It is unclear whether Walter mitkämpfte 1187 at the Battle of Hattin, but he is in July of the year in the subsequent defense of Tyre on the side of Count Raymond III. called Tripoli. After Saladin had conquered Acre, and Caesarea in 1187 fell into his hands. In Tyre, Walter was a partisan of Conrad of Montferrat.

Walter died between July 1189 and July 1191 at the siege of Acre on a rampant disease. His sister Juliane Garnier inherited the rights to the rule Caesarea, which was recaptured from the Third Crusade, restored and confirmed in 1192 as part of a compensation between Saladin and Richard the Lionheart.

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