Guido the French

Family coat of arms of the Milly family

Guido von Milly , called the French ( lat. Guido Francigena , French Gui le Franceis ; † after 1164) was a French knight and seneschal of Jerusalem .

Guido was a son of Guido von Milly († 1126), a knight from Picardy , who rose to Lord of Nablus after the First Crusade in the Holy Land . Guido came from his first marriage to a certain Elisabeth and was born in France. His half-brothers Philipp and Heinrich, born in Outremer , come from his father's second marriage to Stephanie von Flandern .

Since the rule of Nablus arose from an inheritance claim of the stepmother Stephanie, this inherited not Guido, but his half-brother Philipp, when his father died.

Apparently, when his father emigrated permanently to Outremer in 1108 at the latest, Guido stayed in France. He seems to have followed his half-brothers to the Holy Land much later; only in a document of King Baldwin III. of June 27, 1155, he is expressly mentioned as a witness present, and the addition of Francigena ("the one born in France") used there indicates that he had not stayed long in the Holy Land.

In the following years he was appointed Seneschal of the Kingdom of Jerusalem , in a document of King Amalrich I of July 16, 1164 he is documented as such.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eugène de Rozière: Cartulaire de l'Église du Saint Sépulcre de Jérusalem. Publié d'après les manuscrits du Vatican. Imprimerie Nationale, Paris 1849, p. 93, no.51 .
2. ↑ Eugène de Rozière: Cartulaire de l'Église du Saint Sépulcre de Jérusalem. Publié d'après les manuscrits du Vatican. Imprimerie Nationale, Paris 1849, p. 262, no.144 .

Web links

• Guy de Milly at fmg.ac

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann	Seneschal of Jerusalem around 1164	Miles from Plancy