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Hugh (archbishop of Edessa)

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not to open the gates unless he arrived in person. After the walls had been breached on 24 December, dozens of citizens were crushed in the mad rush to the citadel as the gates remained shut. Hugh himself was killed either in the stampede or by Zengi's soldiers as he tried to reach the citadel.
78:, Hugh feared for his soul because he was keeping the holy relics in a city under constant threat of Muslim attack. Only after he was visited three times by the three patron saints of Cluny in visions that he mistook for dreams did Hugh decide to turn the relics over to Cluny. He gave them to 124:
On 28 November 1144, Zengi surrounded the walled city of Edessa while the ruling count was away with his army. In the absence of the ruler and the best fighting men, Archbishop Hugh was charged with the defence of the city. He had the loyal support of the Armenian bishop John and the
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with "the society of all the goods of the congregation", what the Flemish Hugh later called a "confraternity of prayer" with Cluny. In 1120, he donated some relics—a finger of
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Hiestand, Rudolf (2001). "L'archevêque Hugues d'Edesse et son destin posthume". In Michel Balpard; Benjamin Z. Kedar; Jonathan Riley-Smith (eds.).
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from about 1120 until his death. He is sometimes called "Hugh II", although he is the only known Edessene bishop named Hugh. The chronicler
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Dei Gesta per Francos: Études sur les croisades dédiées à Jean Richard / Crusade Studies in Honour of Jean Richard
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calls him "Papyas" and "the metropolitan of the Franks". Most of the Christians in his province would have been
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not in communion with Rome; they only recognized papal authority in 1145. Hugh defended his city during the
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A History of the Crusades, Volume II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East, 1100–1187
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Hugh's diocese shrank sometime before 1134, when the Crusaders re-established the ancient
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Order and Exclusion: Cluny and Christendom Face Heresy, Judaism, and Islam (1000–1150)
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Roasting the Pig: A Vision of Cluny, Cockaigne and the Treatise of García of Toledo
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and became an associate of the Cluniac order, being invested by Abbot
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Matthew Spinka (1939), "Latin Church of the Early Crusades",
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The Latin Church in the Crusader States: The Secular Church
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The Second Crusade: Extending the Frontiers of Christendom
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Tractatus de Reliquiis Sancti Stephani Cluniacum Delatis
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The Creation of the Principality of Antioch, 1098–1130
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Index

Latin Archbishop of Edessa
Bar Hebraeus
Armenians
siege of Edessa
Joscelin II of Edessa
Zengi
Flanders
Abbey of Cluny
Hugh
Saint Stephen
John the Baptist
Pons
Gilduin du Puiset
Thaddeus of Edessa
Abgar
archbishop of Reims
Ralph
by the grace of God
Archdiocese of Hierapolis
Dülük
Syriac
William of Tyre
citadel


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