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Godfrey of Bouillon was born around 1060, second son of Eustace II, Count of Boulogne and Ida, daughter of the Lotharingian duke Godfrey the Bearded and his first wife, Doda. [4] He was probably born in Boulogne-sur-Mer , although one 13th-century chronicler cites Baisy , a town in what is now Walloon Brabant , Belgium . [ 5 ]
The story of the Knight of the Swan (Chevalier au Cygne) is a medieval tale reworked in the Crusader cycle to have the hero a legendary ancestor of Godfrey of Bouillon. Legends of Godfrey of Bouillon. In A manual of the writings in Middle English,1050–1400 (1923–1927), [87] Chapter I.4, pp. 95–97. By John Edwin Wells (1875–1943).
Godfrey de Bouillon was then offered the government of the city as "Advocate," a position which recognized the claims of the church while conceding practical power to the lay authority. [115] British historian Jonathan Riley-Smith wrote numerous works on the Crusades and, in particular, a study of the title of Godfrey of Bouillon. [116]
The Duchy of Bouillon's origins are unclear. The first reference to Bouillon Castle comes in 988 and by the 11th century, Bouillon was a freehold held by the House of Ardennes, who styled themselves Lords of Bouillon. On the death of Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lorraine in 1069, Bouillon passed to his nephew, Godfrey of Bouillon.
The army of Godfrey of Bouillon, the duke of Lower Lorraine, in response to the call by Pope Urban II to both liberate Jerusalem from Muslim forces and protect the Byzantine Empire from similar attacks. Godfrey and his army, [1] one of several Frankish forces deployed during the First Crusade, was among the first to arrive in Constantinople. [2]
' The freed Jerusalem '), is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, first published in 1581, that tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade in which Christian knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, battle Muslims in order to take Jerusalem. Tasso began work on the poem in the mid-1560s.
Godfrey of Bouillon (1058 † 1099), Duke of Lower Lorraine, a leader of the First Crusade and "Advocate of the Holy Sepulchre" Baldwin I of Jerusalem (1065 † 1118), accompanied his brother to the Holy Land, became Count of Edessa and then King of Jerusalem; Godfrey († 1095), Bishop of Paris; Lambert II, Count of Lens († 1054)
The Bouillon estate was a collection of fiefs, allodial land, and other rights. The collection included e.g. the allod villages of Bellevaux , Mogimont , Senseruth , and Assenois , the advocacy of the monastery of Saint-Hubert and Ardennes , and the land to the south of Bouillon , formerly the land of the abbey of Mouzon, now held as a fief of ...