Stephen of La Ferté

Stephen of La Ferté, also called Stephen of Chartres, was the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem from 1128 until his death in June 1130. A knight-turned-monk, Stephen started his ecclesiastical career in the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Jean-en-Vallée in Chartres, France, and became its abbot in the 1110s. He abandoned this office to go on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, where he was elected patriarch. He soon became embroiled in a bitter dispute with King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, his kinsman, over the possession of the cities of Jaffa and Jerusalem, which only ended when Stephen died.