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7 unusual facts about King of Jerusalem


Arda of Armenia

Baldwin succeeded his brother as King of Jerusalem in 1100, but Arda did not immediately accompany him south; she travelled by sea and arrived probably in 1101.

Ehremar

In 1102 Dagobert of Pisa was deposed as Patriarch by the papal legate, Robert Cardinal of Paris, on charges of misconduct brought by the King of Jerusalem, Baldwin I.

Ermengarde, Countess of Maine

After her death, Fulk the Younger left his lands to their son Geoffrey, and set out for the Holy Land, where he married Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem and became King of Jerusalem.

In 1109 she married the Angevin heir, Fulk V, called "Fulk the Younger", thereby finally bringing Maine under Angevin control.

Gervais, Count of Rethel

Because his younger brother Baldwin was in the Holy Land, where he served as King of Jerusalem, he was succeeded as ruler of Rethel by his sister Matilda and her husband Odo of Vitry.

John de Cheam

When the mother of the king, Marie de Coucy, fled from her second husband John de Brienne (aka Jean d'Acre), the Grand Butler of the King of France and the son of John de Brienne, King of Jerusalem, Bishop John was used by King Alexander to reconcile them.

Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford

Count Cavelier Saverio Vella, Baron of Baccari, titular King of Jerusalem, Cyprus, Prince of Antioch and of the Galilee;


Elinard de Bures

Elinard de Bures was a member of the family which traditionally held title over Bures-sur-Yvette in France, however this particular branch of that noble family had come to the holy land as in service to the King of Jerusalem.

Francis Hyacinth, Duke of Savoy

While Duke of savoy he also held the subsidiary titles of Marquess of Saluzzo, count of Aosta, Moriana and Nice, and claimant King of Jerusalem.

Freidank

During the crusade he may have reached Jaffa and was probably a witness of the conclusion of the peace treaty with Sultan Al-Kamil on 18 February 1229 at Jerusalem and Frederick's self-coronation as King of Jerusalem.

Guglielmo Embriaco

Embriaco and his brother returned to Genoa with letters from Godfrey of Bouillon and Daimbert of Pisa, the Defender of the Holy Sepulchre and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem respectively, describing the success of the Crusaders and the urgent need of reinforcements.

Henri de La Trémoille

La Trémoille was the heir-general of Frederick IV of Naples and his first wife Anne of Savoy, and succeeded to the Cypriot claims to the title of King of Jerusalem when his father died.

Louis of Cyprus

The following year, on October 4, 1459, Louis married his cousin, Queen Charlotte of Cyprus and became King of Cyprus and also titular King of Jerusalem and of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia for the brief period of her reign from 1459 to 1464, when they were deposed.

Stephen of La Ferté

He was a French priest, abbot of Saint-Jean-en-Vallée at Chartres, and related to Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem.


see also

Al Karak

In 1132 King Fulk, the Crusader king of Jerusalem, made Pagan the Butler Lord of Montreal and Oultrejourdain, the lands east of the River Jordan and the Dead Sea.

Amalric of Jerusalem

Amalric I of Jerusalem (1136 – 1174), King of Jerusalem, Count of Jaffa and Ascalon

Amalric II of Jerusalem or Amalric I of Cyprus, born Amalric of Lusignan (1145 – 1205), King of Jerusalem

King Guy

Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem 1186–1192, King of Cyprus 1192–1194

Kyrenia Castle

After a short period, Richard sold the island to the Knights Templar, and then to his cousin Guy de Lusignan, the former king of Jerusalem.