When we think of Jerusalem, our prime minister thinks of the masked leper king Bao Laosi in the Heavenly Kingdom, the young blacksmith Berion, the mysterious and beautiful princess Sibila, and the two great villains, Guy of Lucioni and Reynard of Shatillon.

But when it comes to the First Crusade of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in the founding battle, it may not be so familiar, after all, there is basically no relevant description in domestic and foreign film and television works.

Speaking of the establishment of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, we have to mention its founder, the Duke of Lower Lorraine, Godfrey of Bouillon, who is the prototype of Berion's father Goffrey in the Heavenly Dynasty, a true Christian knight who is upright, brave, fearless, and benevolent.

At first, Godfrey of Bouillon, elected by the Crusader generals, defeated Raymond, Duke of Toulouse, the most powerful of the Crusaders, and assumed the title of Guardian of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. ，

Buyon's Godfrey did not claim the throne, which was a wise choice, like Zhu Yuanzhang's strategy of delaying his ascension to the throne, which could prevent Godfrey from being targeted by other crusader generals.

Godfrey died without an heir and passed the throne to his younger brother, Baldwin, Earl of Essad, also known as Baldwin I.

As for how the throne of Jerusalem passed from the House of Boulogne to the House of Anjou, there was a very complicated process, but in general, there are two points: the appointment of the King and the marriage.

As mentioned earlier, this incident coincided with the rise of the Seljuk Turks, a generation of Tianjiao "heroic lion" Arslan Sultan seized Baghdad and controlled the caliphate, the religious leader of the *** religion, and in the following decades, Arslan began to expand to the Fatifa dynasty in Egypt and Byzantine Asia Minor.

For Byzantium, Arslan and the Turks became almost the most troublesome nightmare for the Byzantine emperor, and in 1071, Arslan defeated the Byzantine army of 100,000 at the Battle of Manzkot and captured the Byzantine emperor Romanus IV.

Romanu, who was captured at the time, asked Arslan what he was going to do with him, to which Arslan replied: "I will give you the most severe punishment, and I will give you freedom." ”

For a Byzantine emperor who wanted to put him to death, Arslan did not give him freedom, of course, and he extorted a total of 1.5 million gold coins from Byzantium before he would return to Romanus IV, and from then on Asia Minor would no longer belong to Byzantium.

In addition to the Byzantine Empire, the Seljuk Turks had another opponent, and that was the Fatifa.

The Fatifa dynasty was founded by the descendants of Muhammad's son Ali and is the only Shia dynasty in history.

As for the Seljuk Turks, because of their Sunni faith, it was natural that they made it their mission to destroy the Fatifa.

At this time, it was still the Fatifanian dynasty that occupied Jerusalem, but now the dynasty has been in decline for more than 100 years.

Here we have to mention a Fatifa-like monarch Hakim, who succeeded to the caliphate at the age of 11, his mother was Russian, and his two uncles were also archbishops of Jerusalem, but no one expected that al-Hakim would order the demolition of the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre.

The razing of the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre to the ground, which was unacceptable for Christians, became more or less a trigger for the later Crusaders.

Hakim's behavior is incomprehensible, and the assumption that the Fatifa monarch had a schizophrenic illness explains the absurd and outrageous atrocities that followed.

In 1021, the 36-year-old al-Hakim disappeared and was succeeded by the Zahir Caliph, who was only 16 years old when he succeeded to the throne.

When the Fatifa caliph ascended to the throne, he resumed a policy of tolerance towards Christians and Jews, and then rebuilt the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the walls of Jerusalem, which had been destroyed by the earthquake.

Later, together with the Byzantine Emperor Constantine, he rebuilt the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, which had been demolished by Hakim, until 1048.

Since then, Jerusalem has regained its glory as a religious shrine, and every year countless Christians, ***, come to Jerusalem for pilgrimage.

However, at this time, the Fatifa dynasty had been in uncontrollable decline, and the road to Jerusalem in the past had been safe because of the protection of the Fatifa, but due to the decline of the Fatifa dynasty, there were more and more robbers on the pilgrimage route, which seriously threatened the lives of the pilgrims.

The largest and most ferocious of these robbers were the Beindu from the Arabian desert.

Historically, in 1064, Bishop Bamberg of Germany led a pilgrimage of 7,000 people to Jerusalem, but was robbed by the Beindu outside Jerusalem, and 5,000 people were killed, and few survivors survived.

This event shocked the entire Western world, and it continued to accumulate along with the pilgrims who were later plundered, and finally became one of the important causes of the Crusades.

Speaking of the Beindus, this is an ancient tribe in the Arab region, which can be simply understood as the ancestors of the Arabs, or the living fossils of the Arabs.

Although the Beindu people converted to *** religion, they were not as polite and courteous as the others, and these people still lived a primitive nomadic life, living by plundering.

To this day, the Beindu people still exist, they still pride themselves on being nomadic, they don't live in a house even if they are given a house, and they are not religious in their faith, even the locals dare not provoke the murderous Beindus.

As the Fatifanian dynasty continued to decline, the "valiant lion" Arslan Sultan, after defeating the Byzantium, sent his confidant general Aziz to lead an army to attack Jerusalem.

Originally from Khorezm, Aziz was a Fatifa mercenary who later joined the Sultan of Arslan, where he led his troops to conquer Jerusalem, and the declining Fatifa dynasty was powerless.

At first, Aziz did not kill the Christians in Jerusalem, and was very restrained, but then the Christians and Shiites in Jerusalem launched a riot, they surrounded Aziz's wives and concubines, and in a fit of rage, Aziz carried out an indiscriminate massacre of Jerusalem, both Christians and ***, all of them were slaughtered, and no one was spared.

Aziz's tyrannical behavior was so heinous that he was called "inhuman, a beast" by the people of the time.

Aziz's atrocities were unexpected by Arslan, who immediately removed Aziz, sent the more tolerant Oturk to govern Jerusalem, and appointed Christians as governors of Jerusalem.

However, by this time, the atrocities of Aziz and the Turks had spread throughout Western Christendom, and everyone was outraged, so Urban II launched the First Crusade.

The Crusades, most of them on foot, took years to reach Jerusalem, but before they could reach Jerusalem, the situation changed again.

In 1098, the Fatifans regained Jerusalem and drove out the local Turkic governor Oturk.

Fatima replaced the Seljuk notice to Jerusalem, but how could the Crusaders who had arrived after years give up so easily, not to mention that there was no difference between the Seljuks and the Fatiljahs, they couldn't tell at all, and they didn't want to distinguish who was right and who was wrong, they were all their enemies anyway.

Thus, the war between the Crusaders and the Fatifahs and the Seljuks began......