Career
He was exiled after an assassination attempt on Amalric II of Jerusalem. He went to Tripoli in 1198, Constantinople in 1204. He gained a reputation as a jurist, being asked to edit the legal corpus of Le Livre du Roi, and was given a later attribution of material in the Assizes of Jerusalem, by Philip of Novara.
His father was Walter of Saint Omer, his mother Eschiva of Bures, called the Lady of Tiberias, daughter of Elinard de Bures.
She remarried Raymond III of Tripoli in 1174. (Some accounts note Eschiva or Eshive as Elinard"s sister).
