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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 ...
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 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.
Balian of Ibelin and the archbishops of Tyre and Nazareth arrived at Tiberias the following day. [ 134 ] [ 136 ] Ernoul—who was present, as Ibelin's squire—wrote that the news of the crusaders' catastrophe came as a shock to Raymond, and he soon agreed to pay homage to Guy. [ 137 ]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, a documentary directed by Norwegian director Benjamin Ree premiering Oct. 25 on Netflix, explores the hidden life of the gamer known as Ibelin and the people he ...