Fulk of Angoulême

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Fulk of Angoulême (also Fulcher ; † November 20, 1157 ) was a French prelate , Archbishop of Tire and from 1146 to 1157 Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem .

origin

He came from Angoulême and was abbot of the monastery of Celles-sur-Belle . In 1131 he traveled to Jerusalem , where he became canon of the Holy Sepulcher .

Archbishop of Tire

In 1134 or 1135 he succeeded the late Archbishop William of Tire. It was consecrated by the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Wilhelm von Mesen . Because of disputes over the jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Jerusalem for Tire, he traveled to Rome in the autumn of 1138 to have Pope Innocent II confirm his archbishopric and confer his pallium .

In 1139 he took part in the siege of Banyas .

After the death of Wilhelm von Mesen, at the suggestion of Queen Melisende , he succeeded him as patriarch in January 1146.

Patriarch of Jerusalem

When the Second Crusade reached the Holy Land in 1148 , he received the German contingent under Conrad III. in Jerusalem and picked up the French under Louis VII in Tripoli. He achieved that both monarchs with Baldwin III. from Jerusalem to the Council of Acre and not decided on how to proceed with the Crusader princes of Antioch, Tripoli or Edessa. On July 15, 1149, the new Romanesque basilica was completed and consecrated directly in front of the rotunda and the Holy Sepulcher Chapel.

In 1152 he mediated the dispute for the throne between Queen Melisende and her son King Baldwin III.

In 1153 he participated in the successful siege of Askalon .

Around 1154 got into a dispute with the Order of St. John , which took more and more privileges over the patriarch. In 1155 he traveled to Pope Hadrian IV with Bishop Friedrich von Akkon and other bishops , but his complaint remained unsuccessful.

When he died in 1157, he had reached a great age, William of Tire calls him "almost a hundred years old". He was succeeded as patriarch by Amalrich von Nesle .

literature

  • Bernard Hamilton: The Latin Church in the Crusader States: The Secular Church. Taylor & Francis, Oxon & New York, 1980

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm of Tire: Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum. Book 15, chap. 11
  2. ↑ Jean Richard: The Crusades, c. 1071-c. 1291. Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 0521625661 , pp. 165 f.
  3. ^ Wilhelm of Tire: Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum. Book 17, chap. 14th
  4. ^ Wilhelm of Tire: Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum. Book 17, chap. 21st
  5. ^ Alain Demurger: The Templars. Rise and fall; 1120-1314. CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3406523676 , p. 72 f.
  6. ^ Wilhelm of Tire: Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum. Book 18, chap. 6-8
  7. ^ Wilhelm of Tire: Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum. Book 18, chap. 8th
predecessor Office successor
Wilhelm Archbishop of Tire
1135–1146 		Peter
Wilhelm von Mesen Patriarch of Jerusalem
1146–1157 		Amalrich of Nesle
personal data
SURNAME Fulk of Angoulême
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fulcher of Angoulême; Fulk of Tire; Fulk of Jerusalem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Archbishop of Tyurs, Patriarch of Jerusalem
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1157