[3] The County of Edessa passed to Stephanie's older half-brother, Joscelin II, but was sold to Emperor Manuel I Komnenos and promptly conquered by the Zengid leader Nur ad-Din in 1151.
Hamilton and Jotischky propose that Stephanie may have been the one to introduce the story of Mary, mother of Jesus, being confined on his orders to a room on the site of the abbey as he was led to his crucifixion.
Their marriage was annulled on the grounds of consanguinity, but the reason was so flimsy that the canon law jurist Archbishop William of Tyre consulted Stephanie to explain how the couple were related.
[5][7] In 1174, a few weeks before his death, King Amalric issued a privilege allowing Stephanie and her community to build houses near the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, potentially bringing them considerable profit.
[5] William, who was then writing a history of the Latin East, considered Stephanie a reliable source of information about the events that took place in northern Syria from the 1130s onwards, and she may have provided an eyewitness account.