Baudouin III of Jerusalem
See also: Baudouin III
Baudouin III of Jerusalem (1131 - † January 10th 1162), king de Jérusalem, wire of Foulque of Anjou, king de Jérusalem and of Mélisende of Jerusalem King in 1143 under the regency of his mother, it was crowned in 1152, but had to resort to the weapons so that his/her mother gives up regency.
August 19th 1153, it took the town of Ascalon on the Fatimides of Egypt, but it could not prevent Nur AD-DIN from annexing Damas (April 25th 1154): all Moslem Syria was unified under the control of a strong man, who could then devote himself to the reconquest of franque Syria. Baudouin III was nevertheless several successes, it pushed back in 1157 an attack as a High-Galileo, helped prince d' Antioche to take again Harrim (1158)…
He was combined with Byzance and married in 1158 Théodora Comnène, niece of Manuel Ier, but this alliance brought to him only little of military support, Byzance preferring to maintain balance between Francs and Moslems rather than to fight the Moslems.
Baudouin III dies in Beirut the January 10th 1162, probably poisoned.
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