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Baldwin I (1060s – 2 April 1118) was the first count of Edessa from 1098 to 1100 and king of Jerusalem from 1100 to his death in 1118. He was the youngest son of Eustace II, Count of Boulogne, and Ida of Lorraine and married a Norman noblewoman, Godehilde of Tosny.
In the previous years, Baldwin had taken the cities of Acre, Tripoli, Sidon and Beirut from the Fatimids. Tyre was besieged by land, leaving the sea open as Baldwin lacked a fleet. Although the Fatimid navy failed to help the city, the siege was relieved by the Turkoman ruler of Damascus, Toghtekin. Toghtekin installed his own governor in the ...
To finance his journey to Jerusalem, he seized gold and silver from his subjects. He appointed his relative, Baldwin of Le Bourcq, his successor in the county, Le Bourcq swore fealty to him. [4] About 200 knights and 500 foot-soldiers accompanied Baldwin when he left Edessa on the 2nd October 1100. [2] [4]
Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, is the first ruler to join the crusade. [17] [20] 1096. August 15. Godfrey of Bouillon, Duke of Lower Lotharingia, departs for the crusade. His brother, Baldwin of Boulogne, and their kinsman, Baldwin of Bourcq, accompany him. [17] [18] 1097. c. January 20. Godfrey swears fealty to Alexios I in Constantinople. [21 ...
Baldwin I 1058–1118 r. 1100–1118: Baldwin II 1060–1131 r. 1118–1131: House of Rethel: Melisende 1105–1161 r. 1131–1153: Fulk 1092–1143 r. 1131–1143: House of Anjou: Baldwin III 1130–1163 r. 1143–1163: Amalric I 1136–1174 r. 1163–1174: Aleramici: Baldwin IV 1161–1185 r. 1174–1185: William Longsword 1140–1177 ...
His Geschichte des ersten Kreuzzuges [183] was a history of the First Crusade and contains a full study of the authorities for the First Crusade, and was translated to History and Literature of the Crusades [152] by English author Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon. [184] The greatest German historian of the Crusades was then Reinhold Röhricht.
Edited by Marshall W. Baldwin. Western Europe, Byzantium, the Assassins and the Holy Land before the Crusades. The First Crusade, the Crusade of 1101, the kingdom of Jerusalem from 1101 to 1146, with the loss of Edessa. The Second Crusade and afterward. The rise of Saladin and the loss of Jerusalem. [5] Volume II. The Later Crusades, 1189 ...
Fulcher of Chartres (c. 1059 in or near Chartres [1] – after 1128; French: Foucher de Chartres; Latin: Fulcherus Carnotensis) was a priest who participated in the First Crusade. He served Baldwin I of Jerusalem for many years and wrote a Latin chronicle of the Crusade.