The Crusades; the Story of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
The Crusades; the Story of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
Thomas Andrew Archer
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Was called in to defend the unguarded principality, and for some years the king was in fact its governor. In 1 1 26 the second Bohemond married Baldwin's daughter, an J on his death a few years later the king, Il6 THE LAND AND ITS ORGANISATION. as guardian for his grandchild, received the oaths of all the vassals high and low. From this time Antioch may be considered both legally and politically as a dependency of the kingdom of Jerusalem. Tripoli, as we shall see, passed into the same position..., when Raymond's son Bertram appealed to Baldwin I. For aid against William Jordan, and became the king's man. Henceforward its allegiance hardly wavered, except when in 1122 Pons for a while refused obedi- ence to Baldwin II. The kingdom of Jerusalem properly so called extended along the coast from the Nahr Ibrahim to the Wady-el-Arish. The eastern boundary was formed by the valley of Baccar and the Ghor, or basin of the Jordan and Dead Sea. But in the north the fortress of Banias and the land of Soad lay east of this line, and in the south-east the Franks occupied the land beyond the Dead Sea, and as far- south as the Gulf of Elim.
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