'Hugh of Jabala' was the
bishop of the
Syrian town of
Jabala during the
12th century. When the
County of Edessa fell to
Zengi in
1144,
Raymond, prince of
Antioch, sent Hugh to report the news to
Pope Eugene III. Eugene issued the
papal bull ''
Quantum praedecessores'' the following year calling for the
Second Crusade.
Hugh also told the historian
Otto of Freising about
Prester John, the mythical
Nestorian Christian priest-king of
India, who was intending to help the Crusader States against the Saracens. Otto included the story in his ''Chronicon'' of
1145 [1]; it is the first recorded mention of the Prester John legend.
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