Godfrey of Bouillon: Duke of Lower Lotharingia, Ruler of Latin Jerusalem, C.1060-1100

ISBN-13: 9780367280291 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 284 str.

Simon John

Opis

This book offers a new appraisal of Godfrey of Bouillon, a leading participant in the First Crusade and the first ruler of Latin Jerusalem.  

Spis treści

Introduction

1 - Ancestry and parentage

Lotharingia and its place in the Western Empire

Godfrey’s maternal ancestry: the house of Ardennes-Bouillon

The career of Godfrey the Bearded

The career of Godfrey the Hunchback

Godfrey’s parents: Count Eustace II and Ida of Boulogne

2 - Godfrey’s career in the West, c.1060-95

Godfrey’s early years and arrival in Lotharingia

The succession to the office of duke of Lower Lotharingia in 1076

Godfrey’s matrilineal inheritance

The military campaigns of Henry IV of Germany

Godfrey’s career as duke of Lower Lotharingia, 1087-1095

3 - The coming of the First Crusade, 1095-96

Pope Urban II’s call for the First Crusade

Godfrey’s response to the call for the First Crusade

Godfrey’s preparations for the First Crusade

4 - The First Crusade, 1096-99

Lotharingia to Constantinople, August - December 1096

Constantinople, December 1096 - April 1097

Asia Minor, May - October 1097

Antioch, October 1097 - June 1098

Impasse, June 1098 - May 1099

Jerusalem, May - July 1099

5 - In Jerusalem, 1099-1100

Godfrey’s appointment as ruler of Jerusalem, July 1099

Ruling Jerusalem

Godfrey’s death and the succession of Baldwin I

Conclusion

Epilogue - Godfrey’s reputation in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Simon John is Lecturer in Medieval History at Swansea University. He previously taught at the University of Oxford, and held a Junior Research Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research. Much of his work to date has focussed upon the crusades and their socio-cultural impact in Latin Christendom. He has published articles in the English Historical Review, the Journal of Medieval History and the Journal of Ecclesiastical History, and is the co-editor (with Nicholas Morton) of Crusading and Warfare in the Middle Ages: Realities and Representations. Essays in Honour of John France (2014).