Hugh of Ibelin
Hugh | |
|---|---|
| lord of Ibelin and Ramla | |
| Predecessor | Barisan of Ibelin |
| Successor | Baldwin of Ibelin |
| Born | c. 1130–1133 |
| Died | 1169/1171 |
| Noble family | House of Ibelin |
| Father | Barisan of Ibelin |
| Mother | Helvis of Ramla |
Hugh of Ibelin (c. 1132 – 1169/1171) was an important noble in the
Lord of Ramla
from 1152-1169.
Hugh was the eldest son of Barisan of Ibelin and Helvis of Ramla. He was old enough to witness charters in 1148, as was his younger brother Baldwin of Ibelin, which suggests he was born c. 1130-1133, as the male age of majority was fifteen. (H.E. Mayer has suggested a limited degree of competence may have been accepted from the age of eight, reducing his age, but the examples given of this are of males of the royal house, whose situation was somewhat different.) He was probably about ten years older than his youngest brother, Balian of Ibelin.
After his father Barisan died in 1150, Helvis married the
King Amalric
, by whom he had no issue. It is possible that Agnes had already been betrothed or married to him before 1157, date some say it was the one of the actual marriage but she married Amalric after Hugh was taken prisoner; Amalric was forced to divorce her before becoming king in 1163.
Hugh participated Amalric's
.Another
John of Ibelin, the Old Lord of Beirut
, and the grand-nephew of this Hugh.
References
- ^ Malcolm Barber, "The career of Philip of Nablus in the kingdom of Jerusalem," in The Experience of Crusading, vol. 2: Defining the Crusader Kingdom, Peter Edbury and Jonathan Phillips, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 2003), pg. 61.
Sources
- William of Tyre, A History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea. E. A. Babcock and A. C. Krey, trans. Columbia University Press, 1943.
- Peter W. Edbury, John of Ibelin and the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Boydell Press, 1997.
- H. E. Mayer, "Carving Up Crusaders: The Early Ibelins and Ramlas", in Outremer: Studies in the history of the Crusading Kingdom of Jerusalem presented to Joshua Prawer. Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Institute, 1982.
- Steven Runciman, A History of the Crusades, vol. II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem. Cambridge University Press, 1952.