He was the father of three future rulers of Jerusalem, Sibylla, Baldwin IV, and Isabella I.

The crusaders had wanted to conquer Egypt since the days of Baldwin I, who died during an expedition there.

On Christmas Day 1100, Baldwin I, first king of the Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem, was crowned in Bethlehem, and that year a Latin episcopate was also established in the town.

When the United States entered World War I, Eastman organized with Roger Baldwin and Norman Thomas the National Civil Liberties Bureau to protect conscientious objectors, or in her words: " To maintain something over here that will be worth coming back to when the weary war is over.

# Alice FitzRoy, married Matthieu I of Montmorency and had two children Bouchard V de Montmorency ca 1130 – 1189 who married Laurence, daughter of Baldwin IV of Hainault and had issue and Mattheiu who married Matilda of Garlande and had issue.

With help from the Italian city-states and other adventurers, notably King Sigurd I of Norway, Baldwin captured the port cities of Acre ( 1104 ), Beirut ( 1110 ), and Sidon ( 1111 ), while exerting his suzerainty over the other crusader states to the north – Edessa ( which he had founded in 1097 during the crusade ), Antioch, and Tripoli, which he helped capture in 1109.

The funeral of Baldwin I of Jerusalem | Baldwin I from the book: Les Passages d ' outremer faits par les Français contre les Turcs depuis Charlemagne jusqu ' en 1462.

Nur ad-Din remained a threat in the east, and Baldwin had to contend with the advances of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus, who claimed suzerainty over the Principality of Antioch.

Fulcher, a participant in the First Crusade and chaplain of Baldwin I, continued his chronicle up to 1127.

After Baldwin I extended his rule over Oultrejordain, Jerusalem gained revenue from the taxation of Muslim caravans passing from Syria to Egypt or Arabia.

Kate Baldwin, Aaron Lazar, Christiane Noll, Paul Betz, Renee Rakelle, Marilyn Maye ( singing " I ’ m Still Here "), and Alexander Gemignani were all on hand to sing songs including " I Remember ", " Another Hundred People ", " Children Will Listen ", and " Getting Married Today ".

* Baldwin I of Constantinople, Count of Flanders and Hainaut, first Emperor of the Latin Empire

* 1205 — The Battle of Adrianople occurred on April 14, 1205 between Bulgarians under Tsar Kaloyan of Bulgaria, and Crusaders under Baldwin I, ( July 1172 – 1205 ), the first emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople.

* Baldwin I of Flanders

* July – Baldwin I of Constantinople ( d. 1205 )

* The Crusader castle of Montreal is built by Baldwin I of Jerusalem.

* Pelusium is razed by Baldwin I of Jerusalem.

* Baldwin I of Jerusalem invades Egypt.

* Baldwin of Le Bourg succeeds his cousin Baldwin I as king of Jerusalem.

In Jerusalem he saw Theodora Komnene, the beautiful widow of King Baldwin III and niece of the Emperor Manuel.

Amalric was the second son of Melisende of Jerusalem and Fulk of Jerusalem, and succeeded his older brother Baldwin III.

In 1152 Baldwin had himself crowned sole king, and civil war broke out, with Melisende retaining Jerusalem while Baldwin held territory further north.

Amalric, who had been given the County of Jaffa as an apanage when he reached the age of majority in 1151, remained loyal to Melisende in Jerusalem, and when Baldwin invaded the south, Amalric was besieged in the Tower of David with his mother.

During this time the queen dowager, Baldwin III's widow Theodora, eloped with her cousin Andronicus to Damascus, and Acre, which had been in her possession, reverted back into the royal domain of Jerusalem.

He then took service with Agnes of Courtenay, wife of Reginald of Sidon and mother of Baldwin IV of Jerusalem.

He was poisoned at Caesarea, either by Eleanor of Aquitaine, the wife of Louis, or Melisende, the mother of Baldwin III, king of Jerusalem suggesting the draught.

Second Crusade council: Conrad III of Germany, Eleanor's husband Louis VII of France, and Baldwin III of Jerusalem

Louis ' subsequent assault on Damascus with his remaining army, fortified by King Conrad and Baldwin III of Jerusalem in 1148 achieved comparatively little.

* 1174 – Baldwin IV, 13, becomes King of Jerusalem, with Raymond III of Tripoli as regent and William of Tyre as chancellor.

His brother Baldwin of Boulogne successfully outmanoeuvered Daimbert and claimed Jerusalem for himself as " king of the Latins of Jerusalem ".

Daimbert compromised by crowning Baldwin in Bethlehem rather than Jerusalem, but the path for a secular state had been laid.

Baldwin repopulated Jerusalem with Franks and native Christians, after his expedition across the Jordan in 1115.

As Thomas Madden says, Baldwin was " the true founder of the kingdom of Jerusalem ", who " had transformed a tenuous arrangement into a solid feudal state.

Baldwin brought with him an Armenian wife, traditionally named Arda ( although never named such by contemporaries ), whom he had married to gain political support from the Armenian population in Edessa, and whom he quickly set aside when he no longer needed Armenian support in Jerusalem.

The influence of Jerusalem was further extended over Edessa and Antioch, where Baldwin II acted as regent when their own leaders were killed in battle, although there were regency governments in Jerusalem as well during Baldwin's captivity.

In Jerusalem, the crusaders were distracted by a conflict between Melisende and Baldwin III.

It has been suggested that, at the time of the Norman invasion of England, he was in exile in Europe, working as a successful mercenary for the Count of Flanders, Baldwin V, and that he then returned to England.

In 1113 Baldwin faced a large invasion by the combined forces of Toghtekin of Damascus and Aksunk-ur of Mosul, and though the kingdom was on the brink of destruction Baldwin was assisted by troops from Antioch and new arrivals of European pilgrims at the Battle of Al-Sannabra.

But Baldwin was practically never present, and after the invasion and conquest of Namur by Henry V, Count of Luxembourg in 1256, he sells the rights on the County to his cousin Guy, Count of Flanders.

Within weeks of the division Baldwin launched an invasion of the south.

In 1152 Baldwin also defeated an Ortoqid invasion of the kingdom from northern Syria.

It is unlikely however that Baldwin intervened to prevent the duke's invasion plans of England, after the Count had lost the conquered province of Ponthieu.

In 1118 he allied with Baldwin II, the new king of Jerusalem, and in 1119 the two marched north to aid Roger of Salerno against an invasion by Il-ghazi.

On October 10, 2002, Baldwin was among the 133 members of the House who voted against authorizing the invasion of Iraq.

Afterwards, many of them simply went home, their vow having been fulfilled, although some remained behind to help King Baldwin I defend against an Egyptian invasion at Ramla.