The Kingdom of Jerusalem was a Crusader state established after the capture of Jerusalem on 15 July 1099 during the First Crusade, ruled first from Jerusalem itself from 1099 to 1187 and, after a second period beginning in 1192, from Acre until 1291. Godfrey of Bouillon became its first ruler in 1099, and the kingdom was governed as a feudal monarchy through the Haute Cour, or High Court, of its nobility. At its height in the mid-twelfth century the kingdom's territory roughly corresponded to modern-day Israel, Palestine and the southern half of Lebanon including Beirut, extending east into parts of modern Jordan and Syria and south toward Egypt and the Sinai. The kingdom was almost entirely overrun in 1187 by the Ayyubid Sultanate under Saladin following the siege of Jerusalem, and although a smaller kingdom was restored around Acre in 1192 under successive rulers down to Henry II of Cyprus, it was finally extinguished with the fall and destruction of Acre on 18 May 1291.
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Government Type End YearThe source itself divides the kingdom's history into two periods with a break: it collapsed after the siege of Jerusalem in 1187 and was restored after the Third Crusade in 1192, before finally ending with the fall of Acre in 1291. Government type (class) Classification
Status (Extant or Former) Kingdom of Jerusalem
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Did the Third Crusade restore the Kingdom of Jerusalem?
It recaptured Acre, which became the capital of a truncated kingdom, and restored Latin control over most coastal cities by 1192.
Only in part. The defeat of the Latin forces sparked the Third Crusade, which ran from 1189 to 1192 and personally involved three European monarchs: the German emperor Frederick I, King Philip II of France and King Richard I of England. Frederick drowned in Anatolia on his way east, and Philip and Richard quarrelled from the moment of their arrival. Even so, their combined forces helped recapture Acre, which became the capital of the truncated Kingdom of Jerusalem. By his departure in 1192, Richard had aided in the reestablishment of Latin control over most of the coastal cities and their immediate hinterlands.
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Godfrey of Bouillon (c. 1060 – 18 July 1100) was a preeminent leader of the First Crusade, and the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from 1099 to 1100. Although initially reluctant to take the title of king, he agreed to rule as prince (princeps) under the title Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri, or Advocate of the Holy Sepulchre.
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1. Wikipedia: Kingdom of Jerusalem
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It lasted for almost 200 years, from the accession of Godfrey of Bouillon in 1099 until the fall of Acre in 1291.
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Government: Feudal monarchy
Kingdom of Jerusalem: Status
The Kingdom of Jerusalem was a Crusader state established after the capture of Jerusalem on 15 July 1099 during the First Crusade, ruled first from Jerusalem itself from 1099 to 1187 and, after a second period beginning in 1192, from Acre until 1291.
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The Kingdom of Jerusalem, also known as the Crusader Kingdom, was one of the Crusader states established in the Levant immediately after the First Crusade.
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