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Roman Catholicism. Melisende (1105 – 11 September 1161) was Queen of Jerusalem from 1131 to 1153, and regent for her son between 1153 and 1161, while he was on campaign. She was the eldest daughter of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, and the Armenian princess Morphia of Melitene .
Melisenda I de Jerusalén (1105-11 de septiembre de 1161) fue reina de Jerusalén de 1131 a 1153. Melisenda era la hija mayor del rey Balduino II de Jerusalén y de la princesa armenia Morfia de Melitene. Recibió el nombre de su abuela paterna, Melisenda de Montlhéry, esposa de Hugo I, conde de Rethel.
26 de may. de 2021 · Home. Period. Medieval. Melisende of Jerusalem: the queen of a crusader kingdom. In a fractured region and a violent era, one woman secured control of a crusader kingdom. Natasha Hodgson introduces Melisende of Jerusalem (c1109–61), the determined heiress of a holy city. Published: May 26, 2021 at 7:53 AM.
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The Melisende Psalter (London, British Library, Egerton MS 1139) is an illuminated manuscript commissioned around 1135 in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, probably by King Fulk for his wife Queen Melisende.
Melisende. Melisende, born in 1105 and queen from 1131 until her death in 1161, was the first and unquestionably the most forceful of Jerusalem’s queens. She was not only the hereditary heir to the kingdom, she tenaciously defended her right to rule against both her husband and her son, weathering two attempts to side-line her, albeit more ...
Melisande ruled as queen-regnant and coruler of the principality of Jerusalem. Her father Count Baldwin, a French noble, had fought in the successful First Crusade of 1097, when Frankish knights and others had conquered Jerusalem and the surrounding territories and established Christian kingdoms for themselves.
The daughter of the third ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem—the Crusader state carved out of Palestine by the Christians after they took the city from the Muslims in 1099—Melisende ultimately became the coruler of Jerusalem, first with her husband, Fulk V of Anjou, from 1131 until his death in 1143 and then with her young son, Baldwin III, from ...
