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The fifteenth name was ( Thomas ) Baldwin, admitted to Christ's 4 March 1625 under Alsop.
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 the second son of Melisende of Jerusalem and Fulk of Jerusalem, and succeeded his older brother Baldwin III.
He was the father of three future rulers of Jerusalem, Sibylla, Baldwin IV, and Isabella I.
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.
After the death of Fulk in a hunting accident in 1143, the throne passed jointly to Melisende and Amalric's older brother Baldwin III, who was still only 13 years old.
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.
Melisende was defeated in this struggle and Baldwin ruled alone thereafter.
In 1153 Baldwin captured the Egyptian fortress of Ascalon, which was then added to Amalric's fief of Jaffa ( see Battle of Ascalon ).
Baldwin III died on 10 February 1163 and the kingdom passed to Amalric, although there was some opposition among the nobility to Agnes ; they were willing to accept the marriage in 1157 when Baldwin III was still capable of siring an heir, but now the Haute Cour refused to endorse Amalric as king unless his marriage to Agnes was annulled.
During Baldwin III's reign, the County of Edessa, the first crusader state established during the First Crusade, was conquered by Zengi, the Turkic emir of Aleppo.
" Like his brother Baldwin III, he was more of an academic than a warrior, who studied law and languages in his leisure time: " He was well skilled in the customary law by which the kingdom was governed – in fact, he was second to no one in this respect.
The pro-Ibelin Chronicle of Ernoul later claimed that he was her lover, but it is likely that she and Baldwin IV were attempting to separate him from the political influence of his wife's family.
His first wife, married before October 29, 1174, was Eschiva of Ibelin ( c. 1160 – Cyprus in Winter 1196 – 1197 ), daughter of Baldwin of Ibelin and first wife Richilde de Bethsan or Bessan.
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.

Baldwin and about
Meet Your Meat, a film about the egg and meat industries, narrated by Alec Baldwin, accessed July 2, 2010.
Walter Burns ( Cary Grant ) is a hard-boiled editor for The Morning Post who learns his ex-wife and former star reporter, Hildegard " Hildy " Johnson ( Rosalind Russell ), is about to marry bland insurance man Bruce Baldwin ( Ralph Bellamy ) and settle down to a quiet life as a wife and mother in Albany, New York.
The Baldwin County Express Inc .. collects documents and pictures about the towns and cities in Baldwin County, AL.
Lake Sinclair, a man-made lake, is about three miles ( 6 km ) northeast of Milledgeville on the border of Baldwin, Putnam and Hancock County.
Baldwin City is a city in Douglas County, Kansas, United States about south of Lawrence and west of Gardner.
Baldwin IV was educated by the historian William of Tyre ( later Archbishop of Tyre and Chancellor of the kingdom ), who made a disturbing discovery about the prince: he and his friends were playing one day, attempting to injure each other by driving their fingernails into each other's arms, but Baldwin felt no pain.
* Historica ’ s Heritage Minute video docudrama about political reformers Baldwin and LaFontaine.
* Vanderbilt's webpage about Dr. Baldwin
Davidson telephoned Reith about his idea on 7 May, saying he had spoken to the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, who had said he would not stop the broadcast, but would prefer it not to happen.
For about a century thereafter, the heirs of Baldwin II continued to use the title of Emperor of Constantinople, and were seen as the overlords of the various remaining Latin states in the Aegean.
While recuperating in Woburn in 1769 from an injury, Thompson conducted experiments concerning the nature of heat and began to correspond with Loammi Baldwin and others about them.
Baldwin once visited Elijah Muhammad, founder of the Nation of Islam, who inquired about Baldwin's religious beliefs.
Baldwin was again resisting labels with the publication of this work: despite the reading public's expectations that he would publish works dealing with the African American experience, Giovanni's Room is predominantly about white characters.
The essay was originally published in two oversized issues of The New Yorker and landed Baldwin on the cover of Time magazine in 1963 while Baldwin was touring the South speaking about the restive Civil Rights movement.
While he wrote about the movement, Baldwin aligned himself with the ideals of the Congress of Racial Equality ( CORE ) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ).
If you would like to learn more about Baldwin and LaFontaine a Canadian Historical minute has been made concerning their rise into leadership which can be viewed here Baldwin and LaFontaine Historical Minute
Humorous writers were also popular and included Seba Smith and Benjamin P. Shillaber in New England and Davy Crockett, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson J. Hooper, Thomas Bangs Thorpe, and George Washington Harris writing about the American frontier.
* Interview with Michael Baldwin and Mel Ramsden about Art & Language ( 2011 ) MP3
In addition to speaking eloquently in Parliament on the matter, he was the chairman of two Conservative parliamentary delegations in late 1936 that met with the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, to remonstrate with him about his government ’ s delay in rearming the British defence forces.
* A comprehensive list of all the original sources for Robert the Strong, his possible ancestors and relatives, and theories about his ancestry by Stephen Baldwin on the Henry Project site

Baldwin and trip
On a trip to the USA Stanley Baldwin, the inexperienced Chancellor of the Exchequer, agreed to repay £ 40 million per annum to the USA rather than the £ 25 million which the British government had thought feasible, and on his return announced the deal to the press when his ship docked at Southampton, before the Cabinet had had a chance to consider it.
After the controversy surrounding his identity, California socialite Anita Baldwin took Long Lance as a bodyguard on her trip to Europe.
An easy victory over Pal Moore in March was followed by a trip to California to face Matty Baldwin in San Francisco.
Soon after Harry Baldwin ( Ray Milland ), his wife Ann ( Jean Hagen ), their son Rick ( Frankie Avalon ), and daughter Karen ( Mary Mitchell ) leave suburban Los Angeles on a camping trip, the Baldwins note unusually bright light flashes coming from a great distance.

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The capture of Ascalon by Baldwin III made the conquest of Egypt more feasible.
However, in May 1927, during a row over clandestine Soviet support for the General Strike and the distribution of subversive propaganda, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin made details from the decrypts public.
In order to bolster the defences of the kingdom against the growing strength of the Muslims, Baldwin III made the first direct alliance with the Byzantine Empire, by marrying Theodora Comnena, a niece of emperor Manuel ; Manuel married Baldwin's cousin Maria.
Harold's brother Tostig made probing attacks along the southern coast of England in May 1066, landing at the Isle of Wight using a fleet supplied by Baldwin of Flanders.
In the year 1113 during the reign of Baldwin II of Jerusalem, according to Ali of Herat ( writing in 1173 ), a certain part over the cave of Abraham had given way, and " a number of Franks had made their entrance therein ".
While interest in Black Boy ebbed during the 1950s, a resurgence of interest in critics, Black Boy remains a vital work of historical, sociological, and literary significance whose seminal portrayal of one black man's search for self-actualization in a racist society made possible the works of such successive writers as James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison.
Baldwin did not approve of Raynald's attack on Cyprus, and in any case had already made an agreement with Manuel.
Like Ath, its neighbour to the north-west, Mons was made a fortified city by Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut in the 12th century.
In May 1910, near what is currently known as Plaza Elementary School on Seaman Avenue and Rockville Drive in Baldwin, a breakthrough in American aviation history was made.
The coal seam lying underneath Baldwin Township made mining the township's largest industry.
The struggle between church and state continued into the spring of 1101, when Baldwin had Dagobert suspended by a papal legate, while later in the year the two disagreed on the question of the contribution to be made by the patriarch towards the defence of the Holy Land.
At the end of the century, Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders, made this area the base from which he could advance against Kortrijk.
According to E. Baldwin Smith, from the late Stone Age the dome-shaped tomb was used as a reproduction of the ancestral, god-given shelter made permanent as a venerated home of the dead.
Baldwin also made a prominent appearance at the Civil Rights March on Washington, D. C. on August 28, 1963, with Belafonte and long time friends Sidney Poitier and Marlon Brando.
Baldwin was made a Commandeur de la Légion d ' honneur by the French government in 1986.
The documentary was made by actress Namrata Singh Gujral and will feature breast cancer survivors Olivia Newton-John, Diahann Carroll, Melissa Etheridge, Namrata Singh Gujral, Mumtaz and Jaclyn Smith as well as Daniel Baldwin and Priya Dutt.
The first truly successful set was developed by Nathaniel Baldwin, who made them by hand in his kitchen and sold them to the United States Navy.
In 1126, the cities of Latakia and Jableh formed part of the dowry of Princess Alice, daughter of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, who made an unsuccessful bid to assume the regency of Antioch.
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.
In 1990, Leigh made a significant career breakthrough when she was voted the year's Best Supporting Actress by both the New York Film Critics Circle and the Boston Society of Film Critics for her portrayals of two very different prostitutes: the tough streetwalker Tralala who submits to a brutal gang rape in Last Exit to Brooklyn, and Susie, a teenage prostitute who falls in love with ex-con Alec Baldwin in Miami Blues.

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