James of Avesnes
James of Avesnes (1152–1191), son of Nicholas d'Oisy, Lord of Avesnes, was lord of Avesnes, Condé and Leuze from 1171. He took the cross in 1187 and led French, Flemish and Frisian crusaders by ship to the Holy Land, reaching the siege of Acre in 1189.
At the Battle of Arsuf in 1191 James was unhorsed and cut down after slaying fifteen enemy warriors. Hospitallers and Templars found his body the next day and buried it at Arsuf in the presence of Richard the Lionheart and Guy of Lusignan.