Manasses of Hierges

Manasses of Hierges was a minor lord from the southern Low Countries who is best known for his ten-year career (1142–1152) in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, where he became constable and lord of Ramla. In 1152, following a civil war in the kingdom, he returned home with a major relic of the True Cross. Upon his death in 1177, the cross relic became the subject of a dispute between his heirs and the Benedictine abbey of Brogne.