Baldwin i Sentence Examples

The former was the driving force which made the First Crusade successful, where later Crusades, without its stimulus, for the most part failed; the latter was the one staunch ally which alone enabled Baldwin I.

For two years, indeed, a struggle raged between Baldwin I.

But it was the Genoese who helped Baldwin I.

Of the three Frankish principalities, Edessa, founded in 1098 by Baldwin I.

Baldwin de Burgh, the future Baldwin II., ruled in Edessa as the vassal of Baldwin I.

Even before the conquest of Tripoli, there had been dissensions between William, the nephew and successor of Raymund, and Bertrand, Raymund's eldest son, which it had needed the interference of Baldwin I.

The hostility of the decadent caliphate of Cairo was the less dangerous; and though Baldwin I.

But "on the holiest soil of history, he gave his people a fatherland"; and Fulcher of Chartres, his chaplain, who paints at the beginning of Baldwin's reign the terrors of the lonely band of Christians in the midst of their foes, can celebrate at the end the formation of a new nation in the East (qui fuimus occidentales, nunc facti sumus orientales) - an achievement which, so far as it was the work of any one man, was the work of Baldwin I.

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The acquisition of Egypt had been an object of the Franks since the days of Baldwin I.

Both cities, along with Venice, but especially the Genoese, also did excellent service in reducing the Syrian coast towns still in the hands of the Turks in the reigns of Kings Baldwin I.

Fulk continued the tradition of good statesmanship and sound churchmanship which Baldwin I.

Near the head of the gulf is Jeziret Faraun (medieval Graye), a rocky islet with the ruins of a castle built by Baldwin I.

As early as 1100 Bohemund was captured in battle by Danishmend of Sivas; and it was his captivity, depriving the patriarch as it did of Norman assistance, which allowed the uncontested accession of Baldwin I.