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t. e. The king or queen of Jerusalem was the supreme ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, a Crusader state founded in Jerusalem by the Latin Catholic leaders of the First Crusade, when the city was conquered in 1099. Most of them were men, but there were also five queens regnant of Jerusalem, either reigning alone suo jure ("in her own right ...
This a family tree of the kings of Jerusalem. This diagram lists the rulers of the kingdom of Jerusalem , since the conquest of the city in 1099, during the First Crusade , to 1291, year of the fall of Acre .
Henry II of Jerusalem retained the title of king of Jerusalem until his death in 1324, and the title continued to be claimed by his successors, the kings of Cyprus. The title of "king of Jerusalem" was also continuously used by the Angevin kings of Naples, whose founder, Charles of Anjou, had in 1277 bought a claim to the throne from Mary of ...
Judah. Aristobulus I. King and High Priest of Judaea. The first leader from the Hasmonean lineage to call himself king, and also the first of any Judean king to claim both the high priesthood and kingship title. 103–76 BCE. Jonathan Yannai. Alexander Jannaeus. King and High Priest of Judaea. 76–67 BCE.
Godfrey of Bouillon (French: Godefroy; Dutch: Godfried; German: Gottfried; Latin: Godefridus Bullionensis; 1060 – 18 July 1100) was a preeminent leader of the First Crusade, and the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from 1099 to 1100. Although initially reluctant to take the title of king, he agreed to rule as prince (princeps) under ...
Israel. The Davidic lineor House of David(Hebrew: בֵּית דָּוִד, romanized: Bēt Dāvīḏ) is the lineageof the Israeliteking David. In Judaism, it is based on texts from the Hebrew Bibleand through the succeeding centuries based on later traditions. According to the Bible, David, of the Tribe of Judah, was the third king of the ...
Baldwin IV (1161–1185), known as the Leper King, was the king of Jerusalem from 1174 until his death in 1185. He was admired by his contemporaries and later historians for his willpower and dedication to the Latin Kingdom in the face of debilitating leprosy. Choosing competent advisers, Baldwin ruled a thriving crusader state and succeeded in ...
Sennacherib's Annals are the annals of Sennacherib, emperor of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.They are found inscribed on several artifacts, and the final versions were found in three clay prisms inscribed with the same text: the Taylor Prism is in the British Museum, the ISAC or Chicago Prism in the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and the Jerusalem Prism is in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.