Wicher unknown

Country and Region of Origin

Germany
Hessen (ST) Fulda (KR)

Role

Ministerialis (lay)

Gender and Marital Statusa

Male

Crusades

Expedition

1st Crusade (1096-1099)

Contingent Leader

Godfrey of Bouillon

Probability of Participation

Certain

Actions

Wicher was probably a Swabian by origin, as he is described as Alemannus or Suevus by Albert of Aachen and Metellus of Tegernsee. He was a ministerialis of the abbey of Fulda. It is unclear in what circumstances he lleft the West, but he must have joined Duke Godfrey's household at some point during the crusade. He died of fever at Jaffa in 1101.

Sources

RR, pp. 867-868. Gilo, pp. 246-247. John of Würzburg, 'Descriptio Terrae Sanctae', ed. T. Tobler, Descriptiones Terrae Sanctae (Leipzig, 1874), p. 154. Metellus of Tegernsee, Expeditio Ierosolimitana, ed. P. C. Jacobsen (Stuttgart, 1982), pp. 125-128. CKJ, p. 235.