Tiberias brothers

Who he is

Name

Hugh of Saint-Omer (Hugh of Tiberias)

Title

Prince of Galilee (titular)

Since

1187 (titular)

Born

About 1150

Family

Eldest son of Walter of Saint-Omer and Eschiva of Bures, princess of Galilee, whose second husband was Raymond III of Tripoli (died 1187). Married to Margaret of Ibelin, the constable's sister (childless). Brothers: Ralph, seneschal of the kingdom since 1194, banished in 1198 and living at Tripoli; William and Otto (Odo), whose positions in 1200 are not pinned.

Confidence

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Wikipedia (Hugh II of Saint Omer, Ralph of Saint-Omer); Aimery's page on the 1198 assault and banishment. Where Hugh himself lives on 1 January 1200 is not pinned.

Overlord

King Aimery and Queen Isabella (Ralph has left the kingdom).

What it holds

• Money fiefs at Acre (not itemised).
• The seneschalship (Ralph, in exile).
• Claim: the principality of Galilee (Tiberias), Ayyubid since 1187.

How it was acquired

Hugh succeeded to the title on the loss of Galilee in 1187.

Allies and rivals

Rival of the king; allied by marriage to the Ibelins; Ralph lives in Bohemond IV's county of Tripoli.

How things stand that morning

Ralph in exile at Tripoli; Hugh's residence not pinned. The family's claims are dormant while the truce holds.

Wealth

Money fiefs only; Galilee lost.

Military

Their own household knights only.

Threats

• Royal hostility; poverty.

What the year holds

What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.

1. 1204 (later)Hugh dies and Ralph succeeds to the Galilee title; Ralph later returns to the kingdom and to the seneschalship.Depends on: Natural course; reconciliation after Aimery's death. Stopped by: Nothing in play.

Where the sources disagree

• Ralph is called Ralph of Tiberias in the brief and older works, Ralph of Saint-Omer in current Wikipedia.

Evidence: The 1197-1198 episode is well recorded; the family's holdings and Hugh's residence in 1200 are not.

On the map: Only the claim is drawn.

Primary sources for Kingdom of Jerusalem

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• The Book of the Two Gardens, on the Reigns of Nur al-Din and Saladin, and its Sequel, Abu Shama (Shihab al-Din Abd al-Rahman al-Maqdisi) (about 1240 to 1267, at Damascus). The Rawdatayn ends with Saladin's death in 1193 and matters for 1200 as the store of Imad al-Din al-Isfahani's lost al-Barq al-Shami and of al-Qadi al-Fadil's letters, quoted at length, which describe the Ayyubid princes, the Jazira and the frontier a few years earlier. Read online
• The Chronicle of Ernoul and Bernard the Treasurer, Ernoul, squire of Balian of Ibelin, and later compilers (the 1187 core soon after the event; the whole in its present form 1227 to 1232). The Ibelin household's version of events in Outremer. Read online
• The Old French Continuation of William of Tyre (Eracles), Anonymous continuators, the earliest drawing on Ernoul (about 1220 to 1277; the first continuation (1184 to 1197, the Lyon Eracles) compiled about 1230 from material of the 1190s). For the Latin East at 1200 it narrates the aftermath of the Third Crusade: the truce of 1192, the succession to Jerusalem through Queen Isabella's marriages to Henry of Champagne (died September 1197) and Aimery of Lusignan, Aimery's rule as king of Jerusalem from 1198 while king of Cyprus, the German crusade of 1197 to 1198 and the recovery of Beirut and Sidon, the truce with al-Adil of 1198, the Antioch succession quarrel between Bohemond IV and Leo of Armenia, and the Pisan plot against Aimery. Read online
• Chronicle of Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Alberic of Trois-Fontaines (about 1227 to 1241, at the Cistercian abbey of Trois-Fontaines in Champagne). The widest net of any Latin chronicle for 1200, compiled from dozens of sources, many now lost. Read online
• The Chronicle of Smbat Sparapet (Sempad the Constable), Smbat Sparapet, brother of King Hetum I of Cilicia (about 1270 to 1276). The Cilician court chronicle, drawing on Matthew of Edessa for its early part and on family memory later. Read online
• The Eloquent Exposition of the Conquest of Jerusalem, Imad al-Din al-Isfahani (al-Katib) (about 1192 to 1193). Saladin's secretary's ornate account of the conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade, ending with Saladin's death in 1193. Read online
• The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin, Baha al-Din Ibn Shaddad (after 1193, probably between about 1198 and 1228, at Aleppo). Ends with Saladin's death in March 1193 and so gives no event of 1200, but it is the formative portrait of the Ayyubid house of 1200: al-Adil, al-Afdal, al-Aziz and al-Zahir Ghazi as Saladin's lieutenants, the Mosul and Jazira campaigns, the war of Acre and the treaty of Jaffa of 1192. Read online
• Calendar of the Acts of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Various, calendared by Reinhold Rohricht (documents 1097 to 1291; calendar published 1893, Additamentum 1904). A chronological calendar of every charter, letter and treaty of the Latin East then known, with date, parties, witnesses and the edition where each is printed. Read online

7 more in the sources library for The Latin East and the Ayyubids.