d. 1128 · Latin patriarch of Jerusalem (1118–1128)
Patriarch Warmund
Latin patriarch of Jerusalem; he presided over the Council of Nablus in 1120, played a leading role in governing the kingdom during Baldwin II's captivity, and secured the capture of Tyre with Venetian help in 1124.
BIOGRAPHICAL DOSSIER
Life and historical role
Life and political setting
Warmund (Gormond) came from Picquigny in Picardy. He was elected patriarch of Jerusalem in 1118 and became the kingdom's most influential churchman during Baldwin II's reign.
Role in the Crusades
The council he held with the king at Nablus in January 1120 adopted the kingdom's first written legal regulations and decrees on tithes and morals. When Baldwin II was captured by Belek Ghazi in 1123, Warmund signed the Pactum Warmundi with Doge Domenico Michiel of Venice, granting the Venetians commercial privileges in cities to be conquered. In July 1124 Tyre was taken after a siege in which the Venetian fleet took part.
Historical significance and source problems
Warmund's tenure was the period in which the institutional structures of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and its relations with the Italian maritime cities took shape. He died in 1128. The Nablus decrees survive in a single manuscript; Fulcher of Chartres and William of Tyre describe the siege of Tyre.
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