The hostility to Agnes, it must be admitted, may be exaggerated by the chronicler William of Tyre, whom she prevented from becoming Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem decades later, as well as from William's continuators like Ernoul, who hints at a slight on her moral character: " car telle n ' est que roine doie iestre di si haute cite comme de Jherusalem " (" there should not be such a queen for so holy a city as Jerusalem ").

It was also around this time that William of Tyre was promoted to archdeacon of Tyre, and was recruited by Amalric to write a history of the kingdom.

In 1168 Amalric and Manuel negotiated an alliance against Egypt, and William of Tyre was among the ambassadors sent to Constantinople to finalize the treaty.

William of Tyre explains that " after suffering intolerably from the fever for several days, he ordered physicians of the Greek, Syrian, and other nations noted for skill in diseases to be called and insisted that they give him some purgative remedy.

* William of Tyre, A History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea, trans.

The chronicler William of Tyre reports on the renovation of the Church in the mid-12th century.

William of Tyre placed the blame for this disaster firmly on the baggage and the presence of non-combatants.

Some, such as John of Salisbury and William of Tyre say Eleanor's reputation was sullied by rumours of an affair with her uncle Raymond of Poitiers, Prince of Antioch.

* 1174 – Baldwin IV, 13, becomes King of Jerusalem, with Raymond III of Tripoli as regent and William of Tyre as chancellor.

According to William of Tyre, writing in the later 12th century when Godfrey had become a legendary hero, he refused to wear " a crown of gold " where Christ had worn " a crown of thorns ".

According to William of Tyre, Godfrey may have supported Daimbert's efforts, and he agreed to take possession of " one or two other cities and thus enlarge the kingdom " if Daimbert were permitted to rule Jerusalem.

As William of Tyre put it, it was hoped that Manuel would be able " to relieve from his own abundance the distress under which our realm was suffering and to change our poverty into superabundance ".

Amalric cemented his alliance with Manuel by marrying Manuel's niece Maria Komnene in 1167, and an embassy led by William of Tyre was sent to Constantinople to negotiate a military expedition, but in 1168 Amalric pillaged Bilbeis without waiting for the naval support promised by Manuel.

This is the interpretation offered by William of Tyre, who was firmly placed in the " noble " camp, and his view was taken up by subsequent historians ; in the 20th century, Marshall W. Baldwin, Steven Runciman, and Hans E. Mayer favoured this interpretation.

When Patriarch Amalric died on 6 October 1180, the two most obvious choices for his successor were William of Tyre and Heraclius of Caesarea.

According to William of Tyre, " barely three hundred knights and two thousand foot soldiers could be found " in the kingdom in 1100 during Godfrey's siege of Arsuf.

Aside from these, thereafter there is no eyewitness to events in Jerusalem until William of Tyre, archbishop of Tyre and chancellor of Jerusalem, who began writing around 1167 and died around 1184, although he includes much information about the First Crusade and the intervening years from the death of Fulcher to his own time, drawn mainly from the writings of Albert of Aix and Fulcher himself.

Contemporary chronicler William of Tyre recorded the census of 1183, which was intended to determine the number of men available to defend against an invasion, and to determine the amount of tax money that could be obtained from the inhabitants, Muslim or Christian.

Jerusalem was especially involved in the silk, cotton and spice trade ; other items that first appeared in Europe through trade with crusader Jerusalem included oranges and sugar, the latter of which chronicler William of Tyre called " very necessary for the use and health of mankind.

There was a school in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where the basic skills of reading and writing Latin were taught ; the relative wealth of the merchant class meant that their children could be educated there along with the children of nobles – it is likely that William of Tyre was a classmate of future king Baldwin III.

* William of Tyre, A History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea, trans.

Honorius supported the claims of William of Malines, the new Archbishop of Tyre who claimed jurisdiction over some of the sees that had traditionally belonged to Bernard of Valence, the Patriarch of Antioch.

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