Albert of Namur (Jaffa)

Albert of Namur (* after 1071; † around 1122) was by marriage or as regent for his stepson Count of Jaffa .

He was a younger son of Albert III. , Count of Namur . His mother was Ida von Sachsen .

While his older brother Gottfried inherited his father's county, Albert sought his fortune in the Holy Land . Possibly he got there with the First Crusade , in any case he can be proven in 1112 at the latest in the Kingdom of Jerusalem .

In 1118 the Count of Jaffa, Hugo I, died there . The county of Jaffa then formed the southern border of the kingdom, which was fiercely contested between the Crusaders and Fatimids, and needed a strong count. However, Hugo's son, Hugo II. Was still a minor. Therefore, King Baldwin II of Jerusalem arranged the quick remarriage of Hugo's widow, Mabille von Roucy from the house of Montdidier , with Albert von Namur. From the rights of his underage stepson, Albert took over the government of Jaffa County.

Albert died around 1122 and Hugo II, who was now of age, took over the county.

literature

• Alan V. Murray: The crusader Kingdom of Jérusalem. A Dynastic History. 1099-1125 (= Occasional Publications of the Oxford Unit for Prosopographical Research. 4). Unit for Prosopographical Research - Linacre College, Oxford 2000, ISBN 1-900934-03-5 , p. 212.
• René Grousset : Histoire des croisades et du royaume franc de Jérusalem. Volume 2: 1131-1187. L'équilibre (= Collection Tempus. 152). Perrin, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-262-02568-1 , p. 34.

predecessor	Office	successor
Hugo I.	Earl of Jaffa 1118–1122	Hugo II