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* Joscelin I succeeds Baldwin of Le Bourg as Count of Edessa.
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The next years of his rule were marked by conflicts with Joscelin I of Edessa and skirmishes in the northern border.
Upon the death of Baldwin I in 1118, the crown was offered to the king's elder brother Eustace III, but Joscelin of Courtenay insisted that the crown pass to Baldwin of Bourcq, despite Count Baldwin having exiled Joscelin from Edessa in 1113.
Turbessel was firstly the lordship of Joscelin I when he was not yet the Count of Edessa.
* Joscelin I 1118 – 1131
Joscelin of Courtenay ( or Joscelin I ) ( died 1131 ), Prince of Galilee and Lord of Turbessel ( 1115 – 1131 ) and Count of Edessa ( 1119 – 1131 ), ruled over the County of Edessa during its zenith, from 1118 to 1131.
He was the son of Joscelin I, Lord of Courtenay, born in 1034, and wife Isabella ( or Elizabeth ), daughter of Guy I of Montlhéry.
Joscelin married an Armenian noblewoman named Beatrice, daughter of Constantine I of Armenia.
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Joscelin I of Edessa had captured Azaz in northern Syria from the atabeg of Aleppo in 1118.
Baldwin II, Joscelin I, and Pons of Tripoli, with a force of 1, 100 knights from their respective territories ( including knights from Antioch, where Baldwin was regent ), as well as 2, 000 other foot soldiers, met il-Bursuqi outside Azaz, where the Seljuk atabeg had gathered his much larger force.
In 1131, his father Joscelin I was wounded in battle with the Danishmends, and Edessa passed to Joscelin II.
Joscelin II refused to march the small Edessan army out to meet the Danishmends, so Joscelin I, in his last act, forced the Danishmends to retreat, dying soon after.
Joscelin and Baldwin
To balance this, the king turned from time to time to his uncle, Joscelin III of Edessa, who was appointed seneschal in 1176 ; Joscelin was more closely related to Baldwin than Raymond was, but had no claim to the throne himself.
Baldwin V's rule, with Raymond of Tripoli as regent and his great-uncle Joscelin of Edessa as his guardian, was short.
Baldwin V was now sole king, but being still a minor, Raymond III was his bailli, and his great-uncle Joscelin III of Edessa his personal guardian.
That year, Baldwin II marched north to mediate in the dispute, and Joscelin abandoned his claims.
Alice took over the regency of Antioch for two-year-old Constance, until Baldwin II forced her to relinquish it to Joscelin.
Both Baldwin II and Joscelin died some months later.
Tancred and Bohemund preferred to ransom their own Seljuk prisoners for money rather than an exchange for Baldwin, and the count remained in captivity in Mosul until 1108, when he was ransomed for 60 000 dinars by Joscelin of Courtenay.
In 1122 Joscelin, who had been appointed count of Edessa when Baldwin became king, was captured in battle.
Baldwin returned to the north to take over the regency of the county, but he too was taken captive by the Ortoqids while patrolling the borders of Edessa in 1123, and was held captive with Joscelin.
Baldwin and Joscelin escaped from captivity with help from the Armenians in 1124.
Baldwin of Bourcq married Morphia, a daughter of Gabriel of Melitene, and Joscelin of Courtenay married a daughter of Constantine.
Later in 1104, Edessa was attacked by Mosul, and both Baldwin and Joscelin were taken prisoner when they were defeated at the Battle of Harran.
Bohemond's cousin Tancred became regent in Edessa ( although Richard of Salerno actually governed the territory ), until Baldwin and Joscelin were ransomed in 1108.
Joscelin was taken prisoner once again in 1122 ; when Baldwin came to rescue him, he too was captured, and Jerusalem was left without its king.
Bohemond also fought Aleppo with Baldwin and Joscelin of the County of Edessa ; when Baldwin and Joscelin were captured, Tancred became regent in Edessa as well.
Joscelin and Count
* Count Joscelin III of Edessa
* Joscelin II, Count of Edessa
This opened the route to the Principality of Antioch, where Raymond of Poitiers, Prince of Antioch, and Joscelin II, Count of Edessa, recognized themselves the emperor's vassals in 1137.
Although John fought hard for the Christian cause in the campaign in Syria, his allies Prince Raymond of Antioch and Count Joscelin II of Edessa sat around playing dice instead of helping John to press the Siege of Shaizar.
John descended rapidly on northern Syria, forcing Joscelin II, Count of Edessa, to give him hostages for his good behaviour.
1184 / 87 ) married firstly Joscelin, Count of Loreto, and secondly Robert of Bassonville, Count of Loritello ;
* Joscelin III, titular Count from 1159
Although John fought hard for the Christian cause in the campaign in Syria, his allies Prince Raymond of Antioch and Count Joscelin II of Edessa sat around playing dice instead of helping John to press the Siege of Shaizar.
Baldwin IV died in spring 1185, leaving Sibylla's son as sole king, Raymond as regent and the boy's great-uncle Count Joscelin III of Edessa as guardian.
After her divorce from Amalric, she held the lands and incomes of the County of Jaffa, while Joscelin's son Joscelin III held the nominal title Count of Edessa, being in reality the lord of a small seigneurie near Acre.
Joscelin III of Edessa ( died 1190s ) was the titular Count of Edessa 1159 – after 1190.
He inherited the title of " Count of Edessa " from his father, Joscelin II, although Edessa had been captured in 1144 and its remnants ( including the Lordship of Turbessel ) conquered or sold years before he took the title.
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But Leo, with the help of Count Joscelin II of Edessa ( who was his nephew ), drove back the Antiochene army.
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