Baldwin I of Jerusalem, 1100-1118

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of maps
List of abbreviations
Preface
A note on translations
Maps
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
	Introduction
	The 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
	Attacks by Mawdūd 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
Index