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Coat of arms of the kingdom of Jerusalem. This is a list of queens of Jerusalem, from 1099 to 1291. Throughout 200 years of its existence, the Kingdom of Jerusalem had one protector, 18 kings (including 7 jure uxoris) and five queens regnant. Six women were queens consort, i.e. queens as wives of the kings. Some of them were highly influential ...
Queens regnant of Jerusalem (6 P) This page was last edited on 28 June 2024, at 12:00 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Theodora Komnene (Ancient Greek: Θεοδώρα Κομνηνή; born c. 1145) was a member of the Byzantine imperial Komnenos family who became queen consort of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. In 1158 Emperor Manuel I Komnenos arranged for Theodora, his 12-year-old niece, to marry King Baldwin III of Jerusalem as part of an alliance of the ...
The crusaders were met near Acre on 24 June 1148 [84] by a Jerusalem contingent consisting of Queen Melisende, King Baldwin, Patriarch Fulcher, the archbishops and the bishops, the masters of the Knights Hospitaller and Templar, and the leading noblemen; it was the most impressive gathering of dignitaries ever held in the Latin East. [83]
Nearly all of the Christian peasants in the Kingdom of Jerusalem belonged to the Greek Orthodox Church, but the ruling class, the Franks, were Roman Catholics. [4] The crusader states were constantly threatened by neighbouring Muslim powers. [5] Maria's cousin Theodora Komnene was queen of Jerusalem as the wife of King Baldwin III. [6]
The feudal nobility and the kingdom of Jerusalem, 1147 - 1277. Macmillan. Runciman, Steven (1952). A History of the Crusades: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East, 1100-1187. Vol. 2. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0241298768. Runciman, Steven (1954). A History of the Crusades: The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades. Vol. 3.
Meleke is an Arabic word that originated in the jargon of local stonemasons. [5] [6] Translated as "kingly stone" (or "queenly"), "royal stone", or "stone of kings", the source of the word's meaning may derive from Jerusalem Stone's use in all the monumental tombs of Jerusalem.
Morphia was the first queen of Jerusalem to undergo the ceremony. [14] The royal couple's fourth and youngest child, another daughter, Ioveta, was "born in the purple", that is, after their coronation. [1] [15] Morphia did not take part in everyday state affairs as queen. Her name does not appear in any of her husband's acts.