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Hugh Bunel was a Norman warrior. He was the son of Robert d'Ige and set to inherit La Roche-Mabile in northern France from him. After his inheritance was taken by Mabel de Bellême, Bunel and his three brothers entered Mabel's castle where Bunel decapitated her. The men afterwards fled into exile in Italy and Byzantium before, pursued by bounty hunters, they joined the Saracen army. When Robert Curthose, who had inherited Normandy, reached Jerusalem on the First Crusade, Bunel pledged allegiance to him and provided him with details of Saracen tactics.