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Appendix
THE QUEENS OF JERUSALEM
(1097-1205)
Arda(?)
Only child of Thoros?, an Armenian prince.
Married Baldwin c.1097. Died 1118.
Repudiated by King Baldwin I of Jerusalem between 1101-1105.
Regent of Jerusalem 1101 while Baldwin was missing in action. She was placed in a nunnery after being repudiated, eventually escaping from there and living the rest of her life in Constantinople.
Adelaide
Born c. 1074 Died April 16 1118.
Married 1. Roger I of Sicily 1089 (d.1101). 2. Baldwin I 1112.
Annulled 1117.
Children Roger II by Roger I.
Regent of Sicily 1101 -1112.
Morphia
Daughter of Gabriel of Melitene. Died October 1, sometime before 1129. Buried Our Lady of Josaphat, Jerusalem.
Married Baldwin II (d. August 21, 1131) c.1100.
Children Melisende, Alice, Hodierna, Yveta.
Crowned Queen in Jerusalem Christmas Day 1119.
Carried out negotiations for rescue of husband 1123-4.
Melisende
Daughter of Baldwin II and Morphia. Died September 11, 1161.
Buried Our Lady of Josaphat.
Married Fulk V of Anjou (d. 1143) Whitsun 1129.
Children Baldwin III 1130 Amalric 1136.
Crowned 1. With Fulk in Church of Holy Sepulchre September 14 1131. Reigned as queen 1143 ff.
2. With her son Baldwin III Christmas Day 1143.
Kingdom divided between herself and Baldwin 1150. Baldwin subsequently deposed her. Reconciled with Baldwin 1153.
"She ruled the kingdom with such ability that she was rightly considered to have equalled her predecessors..." William of Tyre.
Theodora
Niece of Emperor Manuel, daughter of Isaac. Born 1146. Died before 1182.
Married Baldwin III (died February 10 1163) 1158.
Abducted to Damascus by her lover Andronicus Comnenus (Byzantine emperor 1182).
Children by Andronicus Alexis and Irene.
Crowned 1158 before marriage in Jerusalem.
Agnes
Daughter of Jocelyn II of Edessa. Her brother (also) Jocelyn was guardian of the Leper King.
Born c.1136. Died before August 1186.
Married 1. Reynald of Marash (killed 1149) 1148. 2. Amalric (d.1174), brother of Baldwin III 1157. 3. Hugh Ibelin of Ramleh 1163. 4. Reynald of Sidon 1169.
Children Sybilla, Baldwin IV 1161 by Amalric.
Amalric became king in 1163, and immediately annulled the marriage.
"She was a woman who was hateful to God and a shameless money grabber." William of Tyre.
Maria Comnena
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