Hugo or Hugh l’Aleman (died before 26 March 1241) was a nobleman of the

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Life

He was the second son of the German crusader

Garnier l’Aleman Werner of Egisheim (died after 1231) was a German Crusader, better known by his French name of Garnier l’Aleman (''Werner the German''). Belonging to a German noble family from Egisheim in Alsace, he is first recorded in Acre in the entourage o ...

and his wife Pavia Embriaco of Gibelet. His elder brother

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became Lord of

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by marriage. Hugh married Isabella (died after 1260), daughter of

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, with whom he had a daughter, who married John of Gibelet (died 1282), son of

Henry I Embriaco Henry I Embriaco (also known as Henry I of Gibelet; born after October 1, 1214 – died before June 2, 1271) was the Lord of Gibelet from 1241 until his death in 1271. He was a member of the prominent Embriaco family. Biography Henry was the son of ...

. Isabella is described as a widow in a charter dated 26 March 1241, proving Hugh had died by this point

Reinhold Röhricht Gustav Reinhold Röhricht (18 November 1842 – 2 May 1905) was a German historian of the Crusades. Biography He was born in Bunzlau in Silesia (now Bolesławiec, Poland), the third son of a miller. He studied at the Gymnasium in Sagan (now ...

(ed.): ''Regesta Regni Hierosolymitani.'' Ergänzungsband, Innsbruck 1904, 1098b, S. 68

References

13th-century deaths Christians of the Crusades