Baldwin of Bourcq
Count of Edessa and King of Jerusalem (1100-1131)
Baldwin of Bourcq left his home in France in 1096 to join the great crusade summoned by Pope Urban II for the liberation of the holy sites and Christian peoples of Syria and Palestine from the domination of the Muslim Turks. In 1100 he became ruler of the Franco-Armenian county of Edessa. In 1118 he succeeded to the kingdom of Jerusalem. In just over two decades this younger son of a minor French count had become one of only a dozen kings in Western Christendom. To defend the principalities of Outremer against their Turkish and Egyptian enemies he travelled thousands of miles and led his troops in over two dozen campaigns. He spent two extend…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-00-047980-5
- EAN: 9781000479805
- Produktnummer: 36692626
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 8 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 8 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 4 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Alan V. Murray is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds. He is the author of The Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Dynastic History, 1099-1125 (2000) and The Franks in Outremer: Studies in the Latin Principalities of Syria and Palestine, 1099-1187 (2015), as well as over 60 articles on the crusades and the Latin settlements in Outremer.
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