Raoul of Saint Omer

Raoul of Saint Omer or Raoul of Tiberias (died 1220) was briefly Prince of Galilee and twice Seneschal of Jerusalem in the Palestinian Crusader state of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

His father was Walter of Saint Omer, his mother Eschiva of Bures. She remarried Raymond III of Tripoli in 1174. (Some accounts note Eschiva or Eshive as Elinard's sister).

He was exiled after an assassination attempt on King Aimery. His elder brother Hugh had shortly before tried to get Raoul to marry Queen Isabella I and thereby claim the throne, after her husband Henry II of Champagne died and before Aimery had married her. He went to Tripoli in 1198, Constantinople in 1204.[1] He gained a reputation as a jurist, being asked to edit the legal corpus of Le Livre du Roi, and was given a later attribution of material in the Assizes of Jerusalem, by Philip of Novara.[2]

Family

He married Agnes de Grenier, daughter of Renaud, Lord of Sidon.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Cawley, Charles, Jerusalem, Medieval Lands database, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ,
  2. ↑ Steven Runciman, The History of the Crusades III pp.95-6.
  3. ↑ Marek, Miroslav. "Saint Omer". Genealogy.EU.
Preceded by
Hugh II of Saint Omer		 — TITULAR —
Prince of Galilee
1204–1219/20		 Succeeded by
Eschiva of Saint Omer and
Odo of Montbéliard


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