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See also:BALDWIN II ., See also:count of See also:Edessa (troo–1118), See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Jerusalem (1118–1131), originally known as Baldwin de See also:Burg, was a son of Count See also:Hugh of See also:Rethel, and a See also:nephew of See also:Godfrey of See also:Bouillon and Baldwin I. He appears-on the first crusade at See also:Constantinople as one of Godfrey's men; and he helped See also:Tancred to occupy See also:Bethlehem in See also:June 1099. After the See also:capture of Jerusalem he served for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time with See also:Bohemund at See also:Antioch; but when Baldwin of Edessa became king of Jerusalem, he summoned Baldwin de Burg, and See also:left him as count in Edessa. From Edessa Baldwin conducted continual forays against the See also:Mahommedan princes; and in the See also:great foray of 1104, in which he was joined by Bohemund, he was defeated and captured at Balich. Tancred became See also:guardian of Edessa during Baldwin's captivity, and did not trouble himself greatly to procure his See also:release. Baldwin, however, recovered his See also:liberty at the beginning of rio8, and at once entered upon a struggle with Tancred for the recovery of Edessa. In See also:September 1108 he regained his principality; but the struggle with Tancred continued, until it was composed by Baldwin in 1109. For the next ten years Baldwin ruled his principality with success, if not without severity. Planted in the farthest See also:Christian outpost in See also:northern See also:Syria, he had to meet many attacks, especially from See also:Mardin and See also:Mosul, in revenge for the provocation offered by his own forays and those of the
restless Tancred. In 1110 he was besieged in Edessa, and
relieved by Baldwin I.; in 1114 he repelled an attack by
Aksunkur of Mosul; in 1115 he helped to defeat Aksunkur at Danith. At the same time, if See also:Matthew of Edessa may be trusted, he also carried his arms against the Armenians, and plundered in his avarice every Armenian of See also:wealth and position. In 1118 he was on his way to spend See also:Easter at Jerusalem, when he received the See also:news of the See also:death of Baldwin I.; and when he arrived at Jerusalem, he was made king, chiefly by the See also:influence of. the See also:patriarch See also:Arnulf. In a reign of thirteen years, Baldwin II. extended the See also:kingdom of Jerusalem to its widest limits. His reign is marked by almost incessant fighting in northern Syria. In 1119, after the defeat and death of See also:Roger of Antioch, he defeated the amirs of Mardin and See also:Damascus at Danith; in subsequent years he extended his sway to the very See also:gates of See also:Aleppo. In 1123 he was captured by Balak of Mardin, and confined in See also:Kharput with Joscelin, his successor in the See also:county of Edessa, who had been captured in the previous See also:year. During his captivity Eustace Graverius became See also:regent of Jerusalem, and succeeded, with the aid of the Venetians, in repelling an See also:Egyptian attack, and even in capturing See also:Tyre, 1124. In 1124 Baldwin II. succeeded in securing his liberty, under conditions which he instantly See also:broke; and he at once embarked on strenuous and not unsuccessful hostilities against Aleppo and Damascus (1124-1127), exacting See also:tribute from both. During his reign he twice acted as regent in Antioch (1119, 1130), and in 1126 he married his daughter Alice to Bohemund II. In 1128 he offered the See also:hand of his eldest daughter, Melisinda, to See also:Fulk of See also:Anjou, who had been recommended to him by See also:Honorius II. In 1129 Fulk came and married Melisinda, and in 1131, on the death of Baldwin, he succeeded to the See also:crown.
Baldwin II. had much of the churchmanship of Godfrey and Baldwin I.; but he appears most decidedly as an incessant See also:warrior, under whom the Latin domination in the See also:East stretched, as See also:Ibn al-Athir writes, in a See also:long See also:line from Mardin in the See also:North to el-Arish on the Red Sea—a line only broken by the Mahommedan See also:powers of Aleppo, See also:Hamah, Horns and Damascus. The See also:Franks controlled the great routes of See also:trade, and took tolls of the traders; and in 1130 their See also:power may be regarded as having reached its height.
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