Hugh of Saint Omer was the Prince of Galilee and Lord of Tiberias from 1101 to his death. Fauquembergues

Fauquembergues

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 and Saint Omer

Saint-Omer

Saint-Omer , a commune and sub-prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department west-northwest of Lille on the railway to Calais. The town is named after Saint Audomar, who brought Christianity to the area....

 are both situated near each other. Hugh was lord of the former and his family, which was to gain fame in subsequent Crusades

Crusades

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, hailed from the latter.

Born in Thérouanne

Thérouanne

Thérouanne is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.-Geography:Thérouanne is located 10 miles southwest of Saint-Omer, on the D157 and D341 road junction.-Population:-History:...

, Hugh accompanied Baldwin of Boulogne

Baldwin I of Jerusalem

Baldwin I of Jerusalem, formerly Baldwin I of Edessa, born Baldwin of Boulogne , 1058? – 2 April 1118, was one of the leaders of the First Crusade, who became the first Count of Edessa and then the second ruler and first titled King of Jerusalem...

 on the First Crusade

First Crusade

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 and into Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia

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 in 1098, where he carved out the County of Edessa

County of Edessa

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. He was at Jerusalem in 1101, when Tancred of Hauteville

Tancred, Prince of Galilee

Tancred was a Norman leader of the First Crusade who later became Prince of Galilee and regent of the Principality of Antioch...

 was entrusted with the regency

Regent

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 of the Principality of Antioch

Principality of Antioch

The Principality of Antioch, including parts of modern-day Turkey and Syria, was one of the crusader states created during the First Crusade.-Foundation:...

. Tancred's vacant Galilean principality was granted to Hugh. Hugh was captured and executed following an ambush of his troops during a raid into Turkish territory. A like fate awaited his successor, Gervaise of Bazoches

Gervaise of Bazoches

Gervaise of Bazoches , Prince of Galilee and Lord of Tiberias, was a crusader on the First Crusade.Before the crusade, he was the advocate of Mont-Notre-Dame and brother of Hugh, lord of Bazoches-sur-Vesles. In the Holy Land, he was an officer of Baldwin I of Jerusalem, who conferred Galilee on him...

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He was related to Godfrey of Saint-Omer, one of the founders of the Knights Templar

Knights Templar

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