This book offers a new appraisal of the ancestry and career of Godfrey of Bouillon (c.1060-1100), a leading participant in the First Crusade (1096-99), and the first ruler of Latin Jerusalem (1099-110
Baldwin of Boulogne was born the youngest of three sons and marked out for a clerical career, yet in turn he became a First Crusader, first Latin count of Edessa and the founder of the Latin kingdom o
Following the First Crusade (1095-99), the descendants of the famous southern French crusader Raymond IV, count of Saint-Gilles and Toulouse, ruled much of the coast of Syria and the foothills of Leba
