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Founded originally to care for the sick and poor in Jerusalem, there were new statutes for the Hospitallers in March ...
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Roger de Moulins was not known to history until 1177 when he became Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller. His chief...
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In the 12th century, while the kingdoms established in the Holy land by Western Europeans were struggling to maintain...
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So Heraclius of Jerusalem set off for Europe to find support for the Latin kingdoms in the Holy Land and perhaps a hu...
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When King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem as worried about finding a husband for his sister who could run the kingdom, he sen...
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So Sibylla of Jerusalem married Guy of Lusignan and spoiled the plot of others to marry her to someone else. He broth...
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After the death of William of Montferrat, Sibylla of Jerusalem needed a new husband. The kingdom of Jerusalem was in ...
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King Amalric I of Jerusalem, and his first wife, Agnes of Courtenay, had three children. When Amalric was forced to p...
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In 1173 King of Jerusalem Amalric I made an alliance with the Order of Assassins. They were a sect of Shi'ite Islam w...
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On the morning of 29 June 1170, the inhabitants of what are now western Syria, central southern Turkey, and Lebanon w...
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January 1169 saw the death of Bertrand of Blancfort, the master of the Templars. Bertrand was not as keen on invading...
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Yesterday's post introduced the phrase more muris in pera, "like a mouse in a wallet." It was said by William of Tyre...
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(I said we would get back to Amalric, but I've discovered a side story that I would rather not put off.)King of Jerus...
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In 1163, the young Fatimid caliph of Egypt was al-Adid, who was only 12 and a puppet of several strong nobles and viz...
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Born into the Zengid Dynasty, Al-Malik al-Adil Abu al-Qasim Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd bin Imad al-Dīn Zengī, known as Nur ad-...
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Baldwin III, King of Jerusalem, contracted dysentery in 1162 after taking some pills from a Syriac physician. He was ...
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Some women in the Middle Ages became pawns as wives to powerful men. Some women had power in their own right and wiel...
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Queen Melisende and Fulk of Anjou had a second son, Amalric, born in 1136. When his grandfather, King Baldwin II of J...
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The young King Baldwin III of Jerusalem really wanted to be seen as a military commander. To do this, he would have t...
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After the defeat and embarrassment of the Bosra incident, Queen Melisende tried to keep her son and co-ruler, King Ba...