They had five or six children together, including Edward the Elder, who succeeded his father as king, Æthelflæd, who would become Queen of Mercia in her own right, and Ælfthryth who married Baldwin II the Count of Flanders.

Andrew went to Constantinople to obtain the Crown of Thorns bought by Louis IX of France | Louis IX to Baldwin II of Constantinople | Baldwin II.

Andrew's first mission to the East was when he was asked by the French king Louis IX to go and fetch the Crown of Thorns which had been sold to him by the Latin Emperor of Constantinople Baldwin II in 1238, who was anxious to obtain support for his tottering empire.

Amalric was born in 1136 to King Fulk, the former count of Anjou who had married the heiress of the kingdom, Melisende, daughter of King Baldwin II.

In 1261, Constantinople was captured from its last Latin ruler, Baldwin II, by the forces of the Nicaean emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus.

** Baldwin II ( 1228 – 1261 )

Canada-During World War II, Baldwin worked on an experimental smoke laying hydrofoil ( later called the Comox Torpedo ) that was later superseded by other smoke-laying technology and an experimental target-towing hydrofoil.

She further states another tradition that when the last Latin Emperor of Constantinople, Baldwin II, was leaving Constantinople in 1261 he took this original circular portion of the icon with him.

Baldwin II was an able ruler, and he too successfully defended against Fatimid and Seljuk invasions.

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.

Baldwin was able to replace Manasses with one of his own supporters, Humphrey II of Toron.

Internationally, the Lusignans were useful as vassals of Baldwin and Sibylla's cousin Henry II of England.

The first laws of the kingdom were, according to tradition, established during Godfrey of Bouillon's short reign, but were more probably established by Baldwin II at the Council of Nablus in 1120.

Around 1119, the French knight Hugues de Payens approached King Baldwin II of Jerusalem with the proposal of creating a monastic order for the protection of these pilgrims.

The Crown of Thorns | Holy Crown of Jesus Christ was bought by Louis IX from Baldwin II of Constantinople.

Louis purchased these in 1239 – 41 from Emperor Baldwin II of the Latin Empire of Constantinople, for the exorbitant sum of 135, 000 livres ( the chapel, on the other hand, cost only 60, 000 livres to build ).

Honorius, as suzerain of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, re-confirmed the election of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem and established him as the royal parton of the Templars.

* 1125: On June 11, in the Battle of Azaz, the Crusader States, led by King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, defeat the Seljuk Turks.

* Baldwin II, Count of Hainaut

* Baldwin II becomes emperor of the Latin Empire in Constantinople, with John of Brienne as regent.

* Amaury IV of Montfort divorces his wife Richilde, daughter of Baldwin II, Count of Hainaut.

* April 16 – Adelaide del Vasto, regent of Sicily, mother of Roger II of Sicily, queen of Baldwin I of Jerusalem

Following the tragedy of the horrific sacking of the city, the conquerors declared a new " Empire of Romania ," known to historians as the Latin Empire of Constantinople, installing Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders, as Emperor.

Only the port of Tyre remained in Frankish hands, defended by Conrad of Montferrat, the paternal uncle of Baldwin V, who had coincidentally arrived just in time from Constantinople.

* 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.

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

* 1267 – Emperor Baldwin II of Constantinople gifts the Principality of Achaea to King Charles I of Sicily in the Treaty of Viterbo in the hopes that Charles could help him restore the Latin Empire.

* 1273 – October – Baldwin II of Constantinople ( b. 1207 )

In May 1267, he concluded the Treaty of Viterbo with the exiled Baldwin II of Constantinople and William II Villehardouin ( through his chancellor Leonardo of Veruli ).

* Baldwin, Latin Emperor of Constantinople ( d. 1273 )

* The Byzantine emperor John III Ducas Vatatzes and the Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II besiege Constantinople in an attempt to take it from its Latin rulers, John of Brienne and Baldwin II.

* Baldwin II becomes Latin Emperor of Constantinople.

* May 27 – Treaty of Viterbo: Emperor Baldwin II of Constantinople gifts the Principality of Achaea to King Charles I of Sicily in the hope that Charles can help him restore the Latin Empire.

In the 18th and early 19th centuries it was common for the Prime Minister to also serve as Chancellor of the Exchequer if he sat in the Commons ; the last Chancellor who was simultaneously Prime Minister & Chancellor of the Exchequer was Stanley Baldwin in 1923.

On 25 July 1261, Michael VIII's general Alexios Strategopoulos captured Constantinople from its last Latin Emperor, Baldwin II.

Esther Walton and the Baldwin sisters would have been in their late 90s – 100 by the last three reunion movies.

In February, 2008, Daphne became the last of the large cities in Baldwin County to enact a public smoking ban.

Among the visitors to the Traweek House was Baldwin Parker, a son of Quanah Parker, the last Comanche chief, as well as state and national officials.

Baldwin II of Courtenay () ( late 1217 Constantinople – October 1273 Naples ) was the last emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople.

Also in the north, Baldwin was unable to help defend Turbessel, the last remnant of the County of Edessa, and was forced to cede it to Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus in August 1150.

The last Latin emperor, Baldwin II, went into exile, but the imperial title survived, with several pretenders to it, until the 14th century.

On June 24, 1833, the staff and dignitaries including Vice President Martin Van Buren, Secretary of War Lewis Cass, Secretary of the Navy Levi Woodbury, and many Massachusetts officials, witnessed " one of the great events of American naval history ": the United States frigate Constitution was inaugurating the first naval drydock in New England designed by prominent civil engineer Loammi Baldwin, Jr .. On March 14, 1975, the historic ship floated out of the dock — the last commissioned vessel to use the facility.

Baldwin I had been vital in creating the last Crusader state.

In 1922, he was appointed Secretary for Scotland in Andrew Bonar Law's Conservative government, holding the post until 1924, the last year under the premiership of Stanley Baldwin.

* A dying Baldwin IV is shown refusing the last sacrament from Patriarch Heraclius.

During the game, Casey Baldwin, a Skuleman, had made a spectacular play in the last minutes to win the dominion championship for the university.

In 1124, after Baldwin had been released, Pons helped capture Tyre, one of the last coastal cities remaining in Muslim hands.

In 1914 a later larger improved version, and last Baldwin product to be purchased by NZR was classed as Aa.

The last Baldwin engine was taken out of regular service in 1955.

As a result, WMTW built a new tower in West Baldwin and signed-off from Mount Washington for the last time on February 5, 2002.

Unlucky Bernie Lootz ( William H. Macy ) has little going for him: He lives in a dreary studio apartment in a rundown motel on the Las Vegas Strip, he's indebted to Shangri-La casino boss Shelly Kaplow ( Alec Baldwin ), who years earlier cured him of a gambling habit by destroying his kneecap, and he can't recall the last time he had physical contact with a woman.

When the last Count, Herman, died without issue in 1051, his widow Richilde married Baldwin VI, the eldest son of Baldwin V, the Count of Flanders and vassal of the French crown.

We-myself, brother and two men named Barricklow-purchased and erected a forty horsepower steam sawmill, and sawed all the lumber for the university and the other buildings at Baldwin ... I was ground agent of the work and was five years engaged in sawing, building and doctoring the sick through small-pox, cholera and other diseases, and representing the people of Douglas County in the Kansas Legislature, during which time we washed and ironed the last wrinkle of human slavery out of the State ... I was called a good doctor, a faithful legislator, a sober, sound and loyal man, abounding with truth and justice and a heartful of love to all.

He became in 1290 count of Anjou and of Maine by his marriage with Margaret, eldest daughter of Charles II, titular king of Sicily ; by a second marriage, contracted with the heiress of Baldwin II de Courtenay, last Latin emperor of Constantinople, he also had pretensions on this throne.