Gervaise from Bazoches

Gervaise von Bazoches († May 1108 in Damascus ) was a French crusader and prince of Galilee .

Gervaise came from the house of Bazoches ( Bazoches-sur-Vesles , Département Aisne ), where his older brother Hugo was master. Gervaise himself was initially an advocatus in Mont-Notre-Dame . In 1098 he joined the First Crusade , which brought him to Jerusalem . There he was an official under King Baldwin I. When Hugo von St. Omer died in a Muslim captivity in 1106 , Baldwin appointed Gervaise as his successor as Prince of Galilee. Possibly as early as 1104, but at the latest after Hugo's death, Gervaise also became Hugo's successor as Seneschal of Jerusalem .

In May 1108 Gervaise was defeated with a force of eighty knights and two hundred infantrymen in the battle against Tugtakin , the Atabeg of Damascus . Like his predecessor, Gervaise was captured. Tugtakin requested the surrender of the cities of Acre , Haifa and Tiberias in exchange for his release. King Baldwin refused and instead offered a ransom in silver coins. Gervaise was then executed, like his predecessor.

After his death, Tankred of Taranto was again Prince of Galilee, who had held the principality between 1100 and 1101.

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 .

Web links

• Gervase de Bazoches at fmg.ac

predecessor	Office	successor
Hugo of St. Omer	Prince of Galilee 1106–1108	Tankred of Taranto
Hugo of St. Omer	Seneschal of Jerusalem 1104–1108	Hugo Chostard