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Balian became a common name in the Ibelin family in the 13th century. Balian, lord of Beirut, son of John and grandson of the above Balian, succeeded his father as lord of Beirut in 1236. Balian of Beirut's brother, also named John, had a son named Balian; this Balian was lord of Arsuf and married Plaisance of Antioch. The name also passed into ...
Balian meets Jerusalem's leaders: the leper King Baldwin IV, Tiberias the Marshal of Jerusalem, and the King's sister Princess Sibylla, Guy's wife and mother to a boy from an earlier marriage. Balian travels to his inherited estate at Ibelin and uses his knowledge in engineering to help the struggling residents irrigate the land.
The siege of Jerusalem lasted from 20 September to 2 October 1187, when Balian of Ibelin surrendered the city to Saladin. Earlier that summer, Saladin had defeated the kingdom's army and conquered several cities. Balian was charged with organizing a defense. The city was full of refugees but had few soldiers.
Balian III of Beirut (died 1247) was the lord of Beirut, the second of his family, from 1236, and a son of the famous "Old Lord" John of Ibelin, [2] by his second wife Melisende of Arsuf. From his father he assumed the leadership of the nobility in the War of the Lombards , fought against the agents of Emperor Frederick II .
From there the boy was carried to banquet on the shoulders of Balian of Ibelin "because he was the tallest of the great lords present"; [20] in reality, Balian was chosen to carry the young king because he was a staunch opponent of Guy and the stepfather of Baldwin IV and Sibylla's half-sister, Isabella, the only other possible contender for ...
For the Oscar-shortlisted documentary “The Remarkable Life of Ibelin,” director Benjamin Ree made several unique choices. The film tells the story of a young Norwegian man, Mats Steen, whose ...
Balian of Ibelin's second son Philip was regent of Cyprus while his niece, the widowed Queen Alice, needed help to govern. With Alice of Montbéliard, Philip was the father of John of Ibelin , count of Jaffa and Ascalon, regent of Jerusalem, and author of the Assizes of the High Court of Jerusalem , the most important legal document from the ...
Once Ree connected with Mats’s World of Warcraft community, who knew him as the persona Ibelin — a private investigator whose name was inspired by Orlando Bloom’s character in the 2005 film ...