Amalric was pious and attended mass every day, although he also " is said to have absconded himself without restraint to the sins of the flesh and to have seduced married women …" Despite his piety he taxed the clergy, which they naturally opposed.

Vessey believes that William's claim to have been commissioned by Amalric is a typical ancient and medieval topos, or literary theme, in which a wise ruler, a lover of history and literature, wishes to preserve for posterity the grand deeds of his reign.

It is likely that his promotions were aimed at weaning him away from the political orbit of the Ibelin family, who were associated with Raymond III of Tripoli, Amalric I's cousin and the former bailli or regent.

Amalric of Lusignan's success is likely to have facilitated Guy's social and political advancement whenever he arrived.

He is further known as having attributed a famous statement to Arnaud Amalric, a leader in the Albigensian Crusade.

Of Queen Sibylla's right to rule, Bernard Hamilton wrote " there is no real doubt, following the precedent of Melisende, that Sibylla, as the elder daughter of King Amalric, had the best claim to the throne ; equally, there could be no doubt after the ceremony that Guy only held the crown matrimonial.

Whether David was influenced also by Amalric of Chartres is a matter of debate.

A confusing passage in William of Tyre led some writers to claim that his father had it annulled on grounds of consanguinity, but this is thought unlikely by modern historians: Reginald's father was dead by this time, and the passage in question is probably referring back to her marriage to Amalric ( see Hamilton, The Leper King & his Heirs ).

It is likely that his promotions were aimed at weaning him away from the political orbit of the Ibelin family, who were associated with Raymond III of Tripoli, Amalric I's cousin and the former bailli or regent.

What is certain is that Amalric of Lusignan's success facilitated Guy's social and political advancement.

It is possible that Agnes had already been betrothed or married to him before 1157, date some say it was the one of the actual marriage but she married Amalric after Hugh was taken prisoner ; Amalric was forced to divorce her before becoming King in 1163.

Also important on its own, although found in the Livre au Roi, Philip, and John, is the Assise sur la ligece, a law promulgated by Amalric I of Jerusalem in the 1170s, which effectively made every lord in the kingdom a direct vassal of the king and gave equal voting rights to rear-vassals as much as the greater barons.

Fourteen followers of Amalric began to preach that " all things are One, because whatever is, is God.

Coat of arms of the kingdom of Jerusalem. The Assise sur la ligece ( roughly, " Assize on liege-homage ") is an important piece of legislation passed by the Haute Cour of Jerusalem, the feudal court of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, in an unknown year, but probably in the 1170s under Amalric I of Jerusalem.

In 1204 his doctrines were condemned by the university, and, on a personal appeal to Pope Innocent III, the sentence was ratified, Amalric being ordered to return to Paris and recant his errors.

On a personal level, William admired the king's education and his interest in history and law, but also noted that Amalric had " breasts like those of a woman hanging down to his waist " and was shocked when the king questioned the resurrection of the dead.

However, Agnes of Courtenay advised her son to have Sibylla married to the newly-arrived Frankish knight Guy of Lusignan, brother of her personal constable, Amalric of Lusignan, who Ernoul claims was her lover.

Amalric appears to have derived his philosophical system from Eriugena, whose principles he developed in a one-sided and strongly pantheistic form.

The doctrine was condemned again by Pope Innocent III in the Fourth Lateran Council ( 1215 ) " as insanity rather than heresy ", and in 1225 Pope Honorius III condemned the work of Johannes Scotus Eriugena, De Divisione Naturæ, from which Amalric was supposed to have derived the beginnings of his heresy.

* Amalric of Nesle, Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1158 to 1180

* Amalric I of Jerusalem, King of Jerusalem from 1162 to 1174

* Amalric II of Jerusalem, King of Jerusalem from 1197 to 1205

* Amalric, Prince of Tyre, Governor of Cyprus from 1306 to 1310

Amalric agreed and ascended the throne without a wife, although Agnes continued to hold the title Countess of Jaffa and Ascalon and received a pension from that fief's income.

The Egyptians then opened up the Nile dams and let the river flood, hoping to prevent Amalric from invading any further.

In response Dirgham sought help from Amalric, but Shirkuh and Shawar arrived before Amalric could intervene and Dirgham was killed.

After an indecisive battle, Amalric retreated to Cairo and Shirkuh marched north to capture Alexandria ; Amalric followed and besieged Shirkuh there, aided by a fleet from Jerusalem.

Amalric became alarmed and sent Frederick de la Roche, Archbishop of Tyre, to seek help from the kings and nobles of Europe, but no assistance was forthcoming.

After being expelled from Poitou by their overlord, Richard the Lion-hearted, for the murder of Patrick of Salisbury, 1st Earl of Salisbury, Amalric arrived in Palestine c. 1174, Guy possibly later.

The Egyptian vizier Shawar again requested help from Nur ad-Din, who sent his general Shirkuh, but Shawar quickly turned against him and allied with Amalric.

Amalric accomplished nothing else, but his actions prompted Shawar to switch sides again and seek help from Shirkuh.

Saladin soon began to assert his independence from Nur ad-Din, and with the death of both Amalric and Nur ad-Din in 1174, he was well-placed to begin exerting control over Nur ad-Din's Syrian possessions as well.

Amalric II had already inherited Cyprus from Guy, and had been crowned king by Frederick Barbarossa's son, Emperor Henry VI.

Amalric withdrew his Templar garrison from Gaza to assist him in defending Darum, but Saladin evaded their force and fell on Gaza instead.

On his return from Rome in 1170 he may have been commissioned by Amalric to write a history of the kingdom.

He claimed to have been commissioned to write by King Amalric himself, but William did not allow himself to praise the king excessively ; for example, Amalric did not respect the rights of the church, and although he was a good military commander, he could not stop the increasing threat from the neighbouring Muslim states.

Amalric I of Cyprus, received the royal crown and title from Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor.

Baldwin IV of Jerusalem ( 1161 – 16 March 1185 ), called the Leper or the Leprous, the son of Amalric I of Jerusalem and his first wife, Agnes of Courtenay, was king of Jerusalem from 1174 to 1185.

Amalric II of Cyprus married Isabella, he became joint ruler of Jerusalem with Isabella.

He sent Raynald of Châtillon ( the former prince of Antioch through marriage to Amalric I's cousin Constance of Antioch ) to Constantinople as envoy to Manuel I Comnenus, to obtain Byzantine naval support.

When asked by a Crusader how to distinguish between the Catholics and Cathars once they'd taken the city of Béziers, the Papal Legate Arnaud Amalric famously replied, " Kill them all, God will know His own ".