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Nov 3, 2016 · Godfrey of Bouillon was born in 1060, and was the second son of Eustace II, Count of Boulogne, and his wife, Ida, the daughter of Godfrey III (the Bearded), Duke of Lower Lorraine. Whilst his elder brother, Eustace III, was heir to the County of Boulogne and was to inherit the family’s estate in England, Godfrey was named as the heir of his ...
Godfrey was among the first to take the cross, together with his two brothers, Eustache and Baldwin (1096). To procure resources he sold or pledged many of his estates. Many nobles at once arrayed themselves under his banner, and about 15 August, 1096, he departed at the head of 10,000 knights and 30,000 foot soldiers.
Godfrey of Bouillon 1060 – 1100. Godfrey of Bouillon was a French nobleman and one of the most eminent leaders of the First Crusade launched in the 11th century to liberate Jerusalem. Godfrey of Bouillon. He was originally a Frankish knight who initially didn’t have any significant possessions. Over time, he served Holy Roman Emperor Henry ...
Aug 23, 2021 · Godfrey became duke of Lorraine in 1076 at the age of eighteen. Among his property holdings was the famous castle of Bouillon, originally built by Charles Martel, the legendary Frankish military commander who defeated a Muslim invasion force at the Battle of Tours in 732 and the grandfather of Charlemagne.
Nov 23, 2017 · 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 (1099-1100), the polity established by the crusaders after they captured the Holy City.
Godfrey of Bouillon, Duke of Lower Lorraine and first King of Jerusalem, son of Eustache II, Count of Boulogne, and of Ida, daughter of Godfrey the Bearded, Duke of Lower Lorraine; b. probably at Boulognesur-Mer, 1060; d. at Jerusalem, July 18, 1100 (according to a thirteenth-century chronicler, he was born at Baisy, in Brabant; see Haignere, Memoires lus a la Sorbonne, Paris, 1868, 213).
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 (1099-1100), the polity established by the crusaders after they captured the Holy City. While previous studies of Godfrey’s life have tended to focus on ...
