Adhémar V of Limoges

Adhémar IV of Limoges

viscount of Limoges

Limoges (45.8353, 1.2625)

1178

Neither Viscount Adhémar III nor Adhémar IV of Limoges had taken the cross, but Adhémar V of Limoges's uncle Guy of Comborn had done so (for the Second Crusade). The family possessed a ring that had once belonged to the regional crusading hero Gouffier of Lastours. When Adhémar V departed on crusade in 1178, he did so accompanied by the viscount of La Marche and a descendant of the famous Gouffier.

Audebert IV of La Marche, William VI of Angoulême, Oliver of Lastours,

Geoffrey of Vigeois, p. 177.

Nicholas Paul, To Follow in Their Footsteps: the Crusades and Family Memory in the High Middle Ages (Ithaca, 2012), pp. 108-109