Fulk of bouillon

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Fulk von Bouillon ( lat. Fulco de Bilium ; * before 1175, † after 1211) was a baron in the Kingdom of Lesser Armenia .

Its name suggests a descent of crusaders from Bouillon . He was a cousin of the Armenian King Leo I. His mother was a sister of the Rubenid princes Thoros II , Mleh and Stephane .

In 1190 he acquired the Baghras (Gastin) castle on the border between Lesser Armenia and Antioch . Baghras was conquered in 1188 by the Ayyubid Sultan Saladin . When the news of the approaching emperor Friedrich Barbarossa spread in 1190 , the castle was razed and the Ayyubid garrison withdrawn. Fulk took the opportunity and took possession of the castle without a fight. At least from 1191 to 1211 he held Baghras as an Armenian fief. During this time he had the castle fortifications carefully repaired.

The Knights Templar , who owned Baghras until 1188, tried to get the castle back. After repeated interventions by Pope Innocent III. King Leo finally had the castle returned to the Templars in 1216. Fulk was probably already dead by this time.

Fulk was married to Alix of Nazareth, a daughter of Helias, lord (castellan) of Nazareth . His son Lewon von Gabban is mentioned in the Golden Bull of Pope Leo I in 1214 . He was married to Alix, the daughter of Thomas von Maugastel, castellan of Tire from 1207 to 1211 , their son was Fulk the Younger. Fulk's daughter Agnes married Walter von Picquigny.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter W. Edbury: The Conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade. Sources in translation. Scolar Press, 1996, ISBN 1859282911 , p. 87.
  2. ↑ L'Estoire de Eracles empereur. In: Recueil des historiens des croisades. Historiens Occidentaux. Volume 2 (1859), p. 136.
  3. ↑ Ibn al-Athir , in: Recueil des historiens des croisades. Historiens Orientaux. Volume 1 (1872), p. 732

literature

  • WH Rudt de Collenberg: A fragmentary copy of an unknown recension of the 'Lignages d'Outre-Mer' in the Vatican Library . In: English Historical Review . Volume 98, No. 387, 1983, pp. 311-327.
  • Kristian Molin: Unknown crusader castles. Hambledon and London, London 2001.
personal data
SURNAME Fulk of bouillon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fulco de Bilium
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH before 1175
DATE OF DEATH after 1211