The offices they held pertained to the management of the count's household and the military defence of the county.
The same offices existed in the other Crusader states, but given the early collapse of Edessa (1144) they are poorly attested there.
[3] The offices of bailiff, butler, chamberlain and seneschal, found in the other Crusader states, are not mentioned at Edessa in any surviving source.
In 1099, Count Baldwin I was accompanied by a "secretary" (secretarius) named Gerard, perhaps the master of the secretarium and hence treasurer.
Likewise, when he acquired Edessa in 1098 Baldwin was accompanied by a chaplain, Fulcher of Chartres, who most likely supervised his chancery and acted as de facto chancellor.