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Baldwin IV died, attended by his vassals, [104] in March 1185 [87] [105] or before 16 May 1185 at the latest, when Baldwin V is recorded as the sole king. [104] He was buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, [105] close to his father, King Amalric. [104] The young Baldwin V died the next year. [106] Sibylla, who succeeded her son, [107 ...
Baldwin I (1060s – 2 April 1118) was the first count of Edessa from 1098 to 1100 and king of Jerusalem from 1100 to his death in 1118. He was the youngest son of Eustace II, Count of Boulogne, and Ida of Lorraine and married a Norman noblewoman, Godehilde of Tosny.
Baldwin IV died in March 1185 [46] [57] or before 16 May 1185 at the latest, when Sibylla's son, Baldwin V, is recorded as the sole king. [58] Baldwin V's paternal grandfather, Marquis William V of Montferrat, arrived in Jerusalem to safeguard the young king's rights. [57]
Baldwin of Montferrat was born in December 1177 or January 1178 to Sibylla, sister of King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, after whom he was named. [1] His father, William of Montferrat, had died in June 1177. [1]
Baldwin III (1130 – 10 February 1163 [1]) was King of Jerusalem from 1143 to 1163. He was the eldest son of Queen Melisende and King Fulk.He became king while still a child, and was at first overshadowed by his mother Melisende, whom he eventually defeated in a civil war.
Accompanying Baldwin was Raynald de Châtillon, Lord of Oultrejordain, who had just been released from captivity in Aleppo in 1176. Raynald of Châtillon was a fierce enemy of Saladin and was King Baldwin's second-in-command. Also with the army were Baldwin of Ibelin, his brother Balian, Reginald Grenier and Joscelin III of Edessa.
King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem died in 1185, leaving the Kingdom of Jerusalem to his nephew Baldwin V, whom he had crowned as co-king in 1183. Count Raymond III of Tripoli again served as regent. The following year, Baldwin V died before his ninth birthday, and his mother, Sybilla , sister of Baldwin IV, crowned herself queen and her husband, Guy ...
Raymond was bailli, but he had passed Baldwin V's personal guardianship to Joscelin III of Edessa, his maternal great-uncle, claiming that he did not wish to attract suspicion if the child, who does not seem to have been robust, were to die. Baldwin V died during the summer of 1186, at Acre. Neither side paid any heed to Baldwin IV's will.