Baldwin V of Jerusalem

of the main things that I will be pointing out to you today is Sybilla's love story, Balians real home, and the creation of the longbow. This may not be interesting right now, but after you read the rest I would hope that you can walk away with an understanding as to what Hollywood does to make their movies more appealing to you with less historical corrections, enjoy! So let's talk about Sybilla, the beautiful princess and soon to be Queen of Jerusalem. In the movie “Kingdom of Heaven”, she was forced to marry the fourth son of the Lord of Lusignan, Guy de Lusignan. “ This explanation of events makes perfect sense and appears borne out by Sibylla’s subsequent behavior”…

of mood. The results of the current study are also particularly relevant to those found in the Baldwin and colleagues (2004) study that examined how self-esteem is related to interpersonal contingencies and mood in response to success and failure conditions. This concept refers to the theory that self-esteem is established by how an individual expects others to interpret success or failure events as opposed to the events themselves (Baldwin et al., 2004). This study found that individuals with…

relation to its Arabic neighbors. Politically, economically, and religiously disconnected from its territorial surroundings, with heavy reliance on Western powers for security and growth, Israel almost parallels the experience of the Christian Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. Though despite being territorially surrounded by, and economically and militarily inferior to, its Arabic and orthodox neighbors—mainly the Byzantines to the north in Anatolia, the Fatimid Caliphate to the south in the Nile…

Chatillon had a reputation for aggravating Saldin and was the fuel for the Muslim chief’s anger and hatred towards the Christians. (The Crusades: Christians at War, pg. 44). It was near the end of 1187 when Chatillon broke the truce by ransacking an Arab troop, while travelling from Cairo to Damascus. (The Crusades: Christians at War, pg. 44, Britannica- Reginald de Châtillon). The Muslim caravan was travelling to Mecca to deliver goods and slaves with the people of Damascus since a truce ,in…

The portrayal of the Crusades in the film Kingdom of Heaven is above all an oversimplified, romanticised, version of a very serious part of history. The four main Crusades were nothing to reduce in importance, each one left thousands dead and only fueled the divide between Christians and Muslims. To begin the characters themselves were real people but in the film they are severely altered: Balian is the combination of several historical figures (such as his own brother), Sybilla was actually…

The second time two adversaries met on the battlefield was in 1179 at the Battle of Marj Ayyun, this time Saladin defeated Baldwin IV who barely managed to avoid being captured by the Saracens. In 1183 Saladin once again went on the offensive against Raynald of Châtillon, Lord of Oultrejordain, whose castle fortress was at Kerak, after Raynald captured the town of Aqaba, which lay within striking distance of Mecca. Saladin lay siege to Kerak in 1183 and again in 1184 but made a tactical…

“Around 1118, a French knight named Hugues de Payens founded a military order along with eight relatives and acquaintances, calling it the Poor Knights of the Temple of King Solomon.” The Knights were monks and noblemen that were sent to defend the Holy Land. They branched out and boasted sizable ships and expanded their religion into Western Europe. The Knights were fierce noblemen that defended the Holy Land and all of the Christians in it. “Muslim soldiers retook Jerusalem and turned the…