[1] Historian Hans Eberhard Mayer refutes Rheinheimer's view, saying that William I of Bures and his second wife, Ermengarde of Ibelin, were Eschiva's parents.
[2] Eschiva was given in marriage to Walter of Saint Omer who was first mentioned as Prince of Galilee in March 1159.
[2] Mayer proposes that King Baldwin III of Jerusalem arranged the marriage because he wanted to merge the concurring claims of the Bures and Saint-Omer families to Galilee.
[2] Holding the largest fief in the kingdom,[2][3] the princes of Galilee were to send 100 knights to the royal army.
[5][6] According to the contemporaneous Ernoul, Baldwin III's successor, Amalric, arranged the marriage.