Hugo IV (St. Pol)

Hugo IV. (French: Hugues IV ; † 1205 in Didymotika ) was a Count of Saint-Pol from the House of Candavène . He was a son of Count Anselm von Saint-Pol .

In 1180 Hugo was a guest at the wedding of King Philip II of France and Isabelle von Hainaut in Bapaume . From 1190 he took part in the Third Crusade in the wake of Count Philip of Flanders .

In contrast to his father, Hugo IV used two golden lions (leopards) on a red background as a coat of arms.

Hugo feuded with Count Rainald I von Dammartin , whom he openly warred when the royal court was staying in Saint-Pol in 1197 .

In 1200 he took the cross again and from 1202 accompanied Count Balduin IX. of Flanders on the fourth crusade . During the siege of Zara , he agreed to Prince Alexios Angelos' offer for a train to Constantinople . In several letters to the courts of Western Europe, Hugo reported on the first siege of Constantinople in 1203 and finally on the conquest of the city in 1204. A letter addressed to Duke Henry I of Brabant , dated July 18, 1203, was the first ever report of this crusade who reached the west. At the coronation of Baldwin of Flanders as emperor, Hugo acted as a swordtail.

Hugo died in Didymotika, allegedly his body was transferred to the Abbey of Cercamp , although Villehardouin reports he was buried in the monastery of St. George in Mangana in Constantinople.

He was married to Yolande von Hainaut, a daughter of Count Baldwin IV of Hainaut . With her he had two daughters:

• Elisabeth († before 1240), Countess of Saint-Pol, ∞ with Walter III. from Châtillon
• Eustachie († before 1241), ∞ with John II of Nesle , Burgrave of Bruges

literature

• Alfred J. Andrea: Contemporary sources for the Fourth Crusade. With contributions from Brett E. Whalen. Brill, Leiden et al. 2000, ISBN 90-04-11740-7 ( The Medieval Mediterranean 29).
• Jean-François Nieus: Un pouvoir comtal entre Flandre et France. Saint-Pol, 1000-1300. De Boeck, Brussels 2005, ISBN 2-8041-4772-X ( Bibliothèque du Moyen Âge 23), ( Also : Louvain-la-Neuve, Univ., Diss., 2001: Le comté de Saint-Pol des origines à la fin du XIIIe siècle. ).

Web link

• Chronographic history of the counties and lands of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise by Ferry de Locre, parish priest of Saint-Nicolas in Arras (early 17th century)

annotation

1. ↑ see Jean-François Nieus, p. 130
2. ↑ cf. Chroniques de Flandre
3. ↑ This letter found its way into the Chronica regia Coloniensis (Kölner Königschronik), which was published in 1861 by Georg Heinrich Pertz in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (SS 17, p. 812).
4. ↑ Geoffrey de Villehardouin: Memoirs Or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople (Echo Library, 2010), p. 68

predecessor	Office	successor
Anselm	Count of Saint-Pol 1175–1205	Walter (de iure uxoris)