Ehremar

Ehremar von Thérouanne (also Evremar or Ebramar ; † after 1124) was Patriarch of Jerusalem and Archbishop of Caesarea .

Ehremar was a priest from Thérouanne in France. Around 1096 he joined the First Crusade and reached the Holy Land with it in 1099 . In the newly established Kingdom of Jerusalem , a conflict soon arose between the King and the Patriarch of Jerusalem, who struggled to establish their power in the Kingdom at the expense of the other. In 1102, the patriarch of Jerusalem, Dagobert of Pisa , was deposed by the papal legate Robert of Paris after King Baldwin I of Jerusalem charged him with serious misconduct. The local bishops then proposed Ehremar to the legate as a candidate for the patriarchal office. He was known for his piety and charity, but had little political experience. King Baldwin also supported Ehremar's appointment, as he hoped that he would not interfere with his politics. Meanwhile, Dagobert went into exile in Antioch .

In May 1104 he took part in the army of Baldwin I in the successful siege of Acre , where he mediated between the king and the hired Genoese fleet. When a Fatimid army marched into the Kingdom of Jerusalem in August 1105 , Ehremar put together his own contingent of 150 soldiers and, coming from Jerusalem near Ramla , joined forces with the army of Baldwin I coming from Jaffa . He carried the Holy Cross with him to raise morale and blessed the troops immediately before the victorious Third Battle of Ramla .

Also in 1105 Dagobert came to Rome, where he lodged a complaint with Pope Paschal II against his deposition initiated by Baldwin I. He declared Ehremar's appointment invalid and reinstated Dagobert, who, however, died on the way back to Jerusalem. In the meantime Ehremar himself traveled to Rome and brought his own reproaches against Baldwin I. Paschal II was inclined to confirm Ehremar as patriarch, but sent Archbishop Ghibelin of Arles as a legate to Jerusalem to settle the matter because of the obvious political explosiveness . This found Ehremar unsuitable as a patriarch and declared the office vacant. In the following synod in the spring of 1108, at the suggestion of Baldwin I, Ghibelin himself was installed as patriarch. Ehremar, on the other hand, was installed as the new Archbishop of Caesarea, a post that had just become vacant.

In 1119 he was again with the Holy Cross in the royal army, which was now operating against the Ortoqids in the north under Baldwin II . In 1120 he was present at the Council of Nablus and in 1124 was one of the signatories of the Pactum Warmundi , an alliance treaty between the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Republic of Venice . The exact date of his death is not known.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Runciman, p. 394
2. ↑ See Runciman, pp. 398f.
3. ↑ See Runciman, p. 400
4. ↑ See Runciman, p. 395.
5. ↑ See Runciman, p. 455

literature

• Steven Runciman: History of the Crusades. CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-39960-6 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Scrooge from Pisa	Patriarch of Jerusalem 1102–1105/1108	Scrooge from Pisa
Baldwin	Archbishop of Caesarea 1108–1124	Gaudentius