

A member of the Artois family, Adam, son of Robert III de Béthune (died 1100), went as a knight on the First Crusade in 1099 with Robert II, Count of Flanders, and was rewarded with the seigneurie of Bessan, now Beit She'an, in the Kingdom of Jerusalem. His descendants, some of whom married Armenians and Greeks, spread through Palestine and Cyprus.
Personnages des Croisades: Premième Croisade - 1096-1099
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Arras, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais Picardie, France
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Age 83
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Beit She'An, Yizrael, North District, Palestine (Palestine, State of)
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