Joscelin, the son of Joscelin I, Lord…

Joscelin, the son of Joscelin I, Lord of Courtenay, born in 1034, and wife Isabella (or Elizabeth), daughter of Guy I of Montlhéry, had arrived in the Holy Land during the Crusade of 1101 after the First Crusade, and entered into the service of his relative Count Baldwin II, who had invested him with the lordship of Turbessel.

By 1113, Joscelin has carved out a semiautonomous state around Turbessel to the west of the Euphrates, where the land is prosperous, while Baldwin II controls the territory east of the Euphrates around Edessa itself, which is depopulated and continually harassed by the Turks.

In this year, Baldwin dispossesses him of Turbessel, and Joscelins travels to Jerusalem, where he is given the title of Prince of Galilee.