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Baldwin of Bourcq: Count of Edessa and King of Jerusalem (1100-1131)

Baldwin of Bourcq: Count of Edessa and King of Jerusalem (1100-1131)

Murray, Alan V.

Hardcover

Series: Rulers of the Latin East

Biographies GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0367545306
ISBN13: 9780367545307
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 19 2021
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Awarded the Verbruggen Prize 2022 for the best book on medieval military history.

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 extended periods in Turkish captivity, yet he outlived almost all of his fellow crusaders, and died leaving the succession to his kingdom secure.

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