William of Tyre discovers Baldwin's first symptoms of leprosy ( MS of L ' Estoire d ' Eracles ( French translation of William of Tyre's Historia ), painted in France, 1250s.

The succession would be determined by a council consisting of Baldwin's kinsmen, the Kings of England and France, the Holy Roman Emperor, and the Pope: in the meantime, his " most rightful heir " would act as bailli.

With the new King of France, Philip II, a minor, the chief hope of external aid was Baldwin's first cousin Henry II, who owed the Pope a penitential pilgrimage on account of the Thomas Becket affair.

Eldridge Cleaver's vicious homophobic attack on Baldwin in Soul on Ice, and Baldwin's return to southern France contributed to the sense that he was not in touch with his readership.

By this, he was invoking the terms of Baldwin IV's will, terms already broken by Guy and Sibylla: in the event of the death of his nephew Baldwin V it had been Baldwin's will that Baldwin V's " most rightful heirs " were to hold the regency until the succession could be settled by the King of England, the King of France, and the Holy Roman Emperor.

Although Eustace of Boulogne had a better claim as the late Baldwin's brother, he was in France and did not want the title.

William of Tyre discovers Baldwin's first symptoms of leprosy ( MS ofL ' Estoire d ' Eracles ( French translation of William of Tyre's Historia ), painted in France, 1250s.

With the new King of France, Philip II, a minor, the chief hope of external aid was Baldwin's first cousin Henry II, who owed the Pope a penitential pilgrimage on account of the Thomas Becket affair.

After Baldwin's death, Arnulf I arranged for King Lothair of France to become the guardian of Baldwin's son Arnulf II.

During the abdication crisis of December 1936, Ribbentrop reported to Berlin that the reason the crisis had occurred was an anti-German Jewish-Masonic-reactionary conspiracy to depose Edward ( whom Ribbentrop represented as a staunch friend of Germany ), and that civil war would soon break out in Britain between the King's supporters and those of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's.

Baldwin's political strategy was to polarize the electorate so that voters would choose between the Conservatives on the right and the Labour Party on the left, squeezing out the Liberals in the middle.

For example, students take religion classes from kindergarten to the eighth grade, as well as march in the Baldwin Memorial Day Parade and help out at Baldwin's Big Sweep ( a community event in which volunteers clean up Grand Avenue ).

The Robertine Odo, Count of Paris, was elected king but Odo would not support Baldwin's attempts at gaining control of the abbey of St. Bertin the two fell out and while Odo attacked Baldwin at Bruges he could not prevail.

* Baldwin's quip could be taken to imply that opportunism equates to choosing to pursue one's self-interest as a supreme principle of survival ; labeling somebody an " opportunist " would be presuming a lack of integrity, perhaps out of ignorance about what his or her integrity consists in ( obviously, availing oneself of an opportunity does not automatically make one an " opportunist ").

In 1949 American writer James Baldwin rejected the emasculation of the title character " robbed of his humanity and divested of his sex " as the price of spiritual salvation for a dark-skinned man in a fiction whose African-American characters, in Baldwin's view, were invariably two dimensional stereotypes.

During his life and after it, Baldwin would be seen not only as an influential African American writer but also as an influential exile writer, particularly because of his numerous experiences outside of the United States and the impact of these experiences on Baldwin's life and his writing.

* Baldwin's American Masters page

In the 1960s, it served as a platform for the American civil rights movement, publishing the writing of Martin Luther King Jr. five times, and publishing James Baldwin's open letter " My Dungeon Shook-Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation ", the first section of The Fire Next Time.

However, critic Andrew Moravcsik alleged that some of Baldwin's evidence actually supports the stereotype of a distinctive American model: a free-market system with little labor protection, an adversarial legal system, high murder rates, high rates of gun ownership, a large prison population, inequitable and expensive health care, and relatively widespread poverty.

This essential argument echoes Baldwin's declaration that, " As long as you think you are white, there's no hope for you ," in an essay in which he acknowledges a variety of European cultures, a multiracial American culture, but no white culture per se which can be distinguished from the maintenance of racism.

" The first essay, written in the form of a letter to Baldwin's 14-year-old nephew, discusses the central role of race in American history.

Additional support came with the arrival of Baldwin's paternal grandfather, William V of Montferrat, from Italy.

" Historian George Athan Billias argues in support of Baldwin's estimates, due in part to the corroborating admission of another British deserter.

Baldwin's reputation soared in the 1920s and 1930s, but crashed after 1945 as he was blamed for the appeasement policies toward Germany, and as admirers of Churchill made him the Conservative icon.

This left Flanders in the grip of a succession crisis ; Baldwin VI's widow was ruling for her two young sons, but her rule was contested by Robert, Baldwin's brother.

Shortly after, on the invitation of Baldwin II of Jerusalem, Fulk departed to the Holy Land for good, married Melisinda, Baldwin's daughter and heiress, and succeeded to the throne of Jerusalem ( 14 September 1131 ).

When Melisende's father was captured during a campaign in 1123, Morphia hired a band of Armenian mercenaries to discover where her husband was being held prisoner, and in 1124 Morphia took a leading part in the negotiations with Baldwin's captors to have him released, including traveling to Syria and handing over her youngest daughter Yveta as hostage and as surety for the payment of the king's ransom.

Many of Ford's major film roles came to him by default through unusual circumstances: he won the role of Han Solo while reading lines for other actors, was cast as Indiana Jones because Tom Selleck was not available, and took the role of Jack Ryan supposedly due to Alec Baldwin's fee demands, although Baldwin disputes this ( Baldwin had previously played the role in The Hunt for Red October ).

William's history can be seen as an apologia, a literary defense, for the kingdom, and more specifically for Baldwin's rule.

Baldwin Locomotive Works | Baldwin's Montezuma, 1871, The first locomotive built for the Denver & Rio Grande.

That left Baldwin's Store to continue initially housing many of the parish's public offices and later, the Methodist and Baptist Churches would be used for parish offices.

Baldwin's uncle William of Thy ( an illegitimate son of Baldwin IV of Hainaut ) was regent for Hainaut.

Boniface hoped to make himself quite independent of the empire, to do no homage for his kingdom, and he opposed Baldwin's proposal to march to Thessalonica.

That year he also paid the ransom for Bohemund of Antioch, who was still in prison following his defeat at Melitene ; Baldwin preferred Bohemund to Tancred, who ruled Antioch as regent, and was also prince of Galilee earlier in Baldwin's reign.

The Historia Hierosolymitana of Fulcher, who had accompanied Baldwin to Edessa as Baldwin's chaplain, and had lived in Jerusalem during his reign, is the primary source for Baldwin's career.

As a leper, Baldwin was not expected to reign long or produce an heir, and courtiers and lords positioned themselves for influence over Baldwin's heirs, his sister Sibylla and his half-sister Isabella.

On Andrew Bonar Law's retirement as Prime Minister in May 1923, Curzon was passed over for the job in favour of Stanley Baldwin, despite having written Bonar Law a lengthy letter earlier in the year complaining of rumours that he was to retire in Baldwin's favour, and listing the reasons why he should have the top job.

Baldwin's unwillingness to shave a beard he had grown for the role is portrayed by Bruce Willis in the adaptation of Linson's book directed by Barry Levinson.

Another minor source may have been William Baldwin's The Mirror for Magistrates ( 1559 ; 2nd edition, 1578 ), a series of poems spoken by deceased, controversial historical figures, who have come forward to speak of their life and death, and to warn contemporary society not to make the same mistakes as they did.

Roger of Salerno, prince of Antioch, would not wait for Baldwin's reinforcements, and the Antiochene army was destroyed in a battle the crusaders came to call Ager Sanguinis ( the Field of Blood ).

Bohemond II, who married Baldwin's daughter Alice, ruled for only four short years, and the Principality was inherited by his young daughter Constance ; Baldwin II acted as regent again until his death in 1131, when Fulk of Jerusalem took power.

The Marsh became the property of the Priory of Canterbury in the 9th century, who granted the first tenancy on the land to a man called Baldwin, sometime between 1152 and 1167, for " as much land as Baldwin himself can enclose and drain against the sea "; Baldwin's Sewer ( drainage ditch ) remains in use.

Complaints had been made about the legality of Dagobert's appointment, and when the pope sent a legate, Maurice, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto, to enquire into the situation, Baldwin accused Dagobert of treachery for urging Bohemond to oppose Baldwin's succession.