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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ascends the social ranks from blacksmith to Baron of Ibelin after following his newfound father on crusade, ultimately forging an ahistorical and anachronistic analogy to the American dream.
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 (or Barisan the Younger; c. 1143–1193) is the 3rd Lord of Ibelin (1170–1193) and protagonist of the 2005 movie Kingdom of Heaven. Balian of Ibelin may also refer to: Barisan of Ibelin , sometimes known as Balian I or the Elder (died 1150), founder of the Ibelin family
Once Ree connected with Mats’s World of Warcraft community, who knew him as the persona Ibelin — a private investigator whose name was inspired by Orlando Bloom’s character in the 2005 film ...