Baldwin I of Jerusalem, 1100-1118

"Susan Edington has written a tremendously useful and welcome study of Baldwin and the history surrounding his tenure as Count of Edessa and subsequent accession to the royal title. Paying due attention both to the context of Baldwin's leadership and what the sources reveal about his character, Edgington presents new insights into the world of the First Crusade and its aftermath. The complex network of primary sources that describe the progress and memorialisation of the First Crusade and the creation of the Latin states of Outremer are dealt with deftly throughout." - Megan Cassidy-Welch,Sehepunkte "Edgington presents Baldwin I not as a good man, but rather a man who was good at being a king. Baldwin was the right man at the right time, and was exactly what the Kingdom of Jerusalem needed during its formative years. Similarly, this excellent biography, which brings together and expands upon many of the strands of the current research on Baldwin I, is exactly what scholars of the Latin East have needed." - Stephen Donnachie, University of Swansea

Auteur

Susan B. Edgington is a teaching and research fellow at Queen Mary University of London. She has written extensively on many aspects of the crusades, but it is her close familiarity with the Latin sources for the period in question, 1095-1118, that uniquely qualifies her to write this biography. She is the editor and translator of Albert of Aachen's Historia Ierosolimitana (Oxford, 2007); translator (with Thomas S. Asbridge) of Walter the Chancellor's The Antiochene Wars (Aldershot, 1999); (with Carol Sweetenham) of The Chanson d'Antioche (Farnham, 2011); and (with Steven Biddlecombe) of Badric of Bourgueil's History of the Jerusalemites (Woodbridge, forthcoming). Her critical comparison of the relationship of Bartolf of Nangis' Gesta Francorum Iherusalem expugnantium with the chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres (Crusades 13, 2014) will lead to a new edition and translation of this important source.

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This study examines Baldwin I's career, using contemporary evidence to discover the qualities that enabled him to succeed his brother and to maintain and expand Jerusalem through the next 18 years.

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Preface

Note on translations

1. First Crusader
   *Baldwin the Younger Son
   The First Crusade
   The Journey to Constantinople
   Contacts with Byzantium
   Constantinople
   The Oath to Alexios
   The Evidence *

2. Nicaea to Edessa
   *The Siege of Nicaea
   The Battle of Dorylaeum
   Cilician Adventure or Cilician Campaign?
   Tarsus
   Mamistra
   Coming of Age
   Turbessel *

3. Count of Edessa
   *Why Edessa?
   The Invitation from Edessa
   The Coup
   Ruler of Edessa
   The Armenian Marriage
   Rebellion
   Support for the Crusade
   Pilgrimage to Jerusalem *

4. Crisis in Jerusalem, 1100
   *Bohemond's Capture
   Godfrey's Rule in Jerusalem
   Godfrey's Title
   Godfrey's Death
   The Succession Dispute
   Baldwin's Journey to Jerusalem *

5. King of Jerusalem
   *A Royal Progress
   Coronation
   Tancred
   Bohemond's Captivity and Release
   Raymond of Saint-Gilles
   Daibert of Pisa
   The Failure of the Holy Fire, 1101
   Six Years Later *

6. Ecclesiastical Affairs
   *The Patriarchate of Jerusalem
   Daibert of Pisa
   Baldwin's Accession
   Patriarch Evremar (1102-1108)
   Patriarch Gibelin (1108-1112)
   Patriarch Arnulf (1112-1118) *

7. The Conquest of the Littoral
   *IntroductionThe Situation at Baldwin's Accession
   The Capture of Arsuf, 1101
   The Siege and Capture of Caesarea, 1101
   The Siege and Capture of Acre, 1104
   The Capture of Tripoli (1109) and Beirut (1110)
   The Capture of Sidon, 1110
   Conclusion *

8. Fighting the Saracens
   *The First Battle of Ramla, 1101
   Arrival of the 'Crusade of 1101'
   The Second Battle of Ramla, 1102
   A Saracen Ambush, 1103
   The Third Battle of Ramla, 1105
   Ambushes and Raids *

9. The Army, Administration, and Allies
   *Introduction
   The Army
   Administration
   The Crusader States
   Edessa and Antioch
   Tripoli
   Attacks by Mawdd of Mosul, 1110-1113
   The Turkish Invasion of 1115
   Byzantium
   Sicily *

10. Last Years and Legacy
    *Introduction
    Into Arabia
    The Last Campaign
    The Funeral Procession
    Tomb and Epitaph
    Twelfth-Century Assessments of Baldwin
    William of Tyre
    Baldwin's Marriages
    The Succession
    Conclusion*
    Bibliography

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