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Baldwin left Jerusalem in the retinue of Count Robert II of Flanders in late August. [17] ... but Baldwin's wife, Morphia, was born to an Orthodox noble family.
In 1119, the king travelled to Edessa to install his cousin Joscelin of Courtenay as the new count and to bring his wife and their daughters to Jerusalem. [11] Baldwin and Morphia's coronation was held on Christmas 1119 [12] in Bethlehem. [13] Morphia was the first queen of Jerusalem to undergo the ceremony. [14]
Baldwin banished her to the convent of St Anne in Jerusalem before 1109, but she was soon allowed to move to Constantinople. [95] [244] Although they were separated, the marriage was never annulled. [95] Baldwin's third wife, Adelaide, was the wealthy widow of Roger I of Sicily. [245]
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 Kingdom of Jerusalem in the face of his debilitating leprosy.
In 1127 Fulk V, Count of Anjou, received an embassy from King Baldwin II of Jerusalem. Baldwin II had no male heirs but had already designated his daughter Melisende to succeed him. Baldwin II wanted to safeguard his daughter's inheritance by marrying her to a powerful lord. Fulk was a wealthy crusader and experienced military commander, and a ...
Sibylla was the elder of the two children of the count of Jaffa and Ascalon, Amalric, and his first wife, Agnes of Courtenay.She was born between 1157, when her parents married, and 1161, when her brother, Baldwin, was born. [1]
Adelaide del Vasto, the 3rd wife of Baldwin I of Jerusalem, married apparently while he was still married to Arda. Adelaide's son Roger II of Sicily by her first marriage refused to support the Crusader states during the Second Crusade due to the treatment of his mother by Jerusalem. Morphia of Melitene, wife of Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem.
In 1105 Baldwin had the marriage annulled, supposedly because Arda had been unfaithful, or, according to Guibert of Nogent, because she had been raped by pirates on the way to Jerusalem. In reality, Thoros had paid very little of the dowry, Arda had produced no children, and an Armenian wife was less useful in Jerusalem than in Edessa.