1. About the king of Jerusalem in the film "Heaven" of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the leper, I believe everyone is very impressed, in fact, he is the sixth monarch of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, this family is very interesting, and the ancestors are all characters with a very style and means. It's a pity that the country that has been built out one hand and one foot has not been very long-lasting.

The First Crusade broke out in 1095 when the Pope called on Catholic nobles and lords to gather armies to wage holy war against the Seljuks. In the course of this crusade, the Crusaders established a series of Crusader states in the East to consolidate their power. These countries, backed by the support of Western powers, are bridgeheads against the ****** world. Two of these countries are quite related, one is the kingdom of Edsabeth, and the other is the so-called "heavenly dynasty" in the film, the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

They are said to be related because the founders of the two countries are actually the same person, Baldwin I, and the leper king in the "Heavens" film is Baldwin IV.

In 1098, Baldwin I, Earl of Brunn from Normandy, participated in the First Crusade, and soon after the Crusade began, Baldwin for the first time embodied his "style*** and left the army without permission and led his troops alone to the city of Edessa (an ancient city in the valley of the two rivers and one of the holy cities of Christianity).

At that time, the city of Edessa had been besieged by the Seljuks for two months, and our Uncle Baldwin was like Song Gongming in Shandong and Shi Shiran appeared.

Reinforcements arrived, and the Seljuks withdrew. The military governor of Edessa at that time was called Theolos, and he was so grateful to Uncle Bao for his timely assistance, and his admiration was like a surging river. In March 1098, Baldwin formed an alliance with Theolos and recognized him as his adopted son and heir, and in March of the same year, Uncle Baldwin attacked his godson's camp and abducted his entire family, demanding that he trade control of the city of Edessa for his family's life. The poor godson was reluctant to be forced to agree to the city by the whole family, but it immediately became the practice of Uncle Baldwin's third style, and the whole family, including himself, was tragically destroyed. In this way, in 1098, Baldwin established the state of Edsabeth, called Baldwin I.

Now put Baldwin I, who has style, aside for a moment, and talk about another person with style. The man's name was Goldford, and he was a prince, Prince of France, to be exact. And he is Uncle Bao's brother.

As the saying goes, heroes come out of troubled times. Europe at the end of the 11th century was also a mess, princes, nobles, and lords were idle all day long. It just so happened that the Holy See called on everyone to go east, and the muzzle of the gun finally found a consistent direction to the outside world, so there was no more trouble, and a swarm of bees went east to make a fortune.

The aristocracy has always been characterized by a family business model, and there are not a few people who go out to the east during the Crusades, and the two brothers Goldford and Baldwin are a model. The two brothers are very independent, both have a sense of direction, and do not go to one place (too many places to grab, so they go their separate ways). A year after his brother had successfully settled in Edessa, the elder brother finally led his troops to Jerusalem and surrounded it. However, on July 15, 1099, the Crusaders broke through Jerusalem, and after a short rest, Lord Goldford ordered the slaughter of the city. In half a day, the invading army slaughtered everyone in the city except the administrator.

Uncle Goldford, like his brother, was also a very stylish man, and when his subordinates asked him to be the king of Jerusalem, he was very angry and said, "Is this even a drop of people?! But Uncle Goldford's life was not very good, and he only worked as a "protector of the Holy Sepulchre" for one year. In 1100, Goldford died in Jerusalem. The second grandfather, Baldwin, arrived from Edessa at about the same time, and was crowned King of Jerusalem without hesitation in front of his brother's body, and the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem was officially established, marking the return of the Holy City.

According to Bao Erye's consistent style of acting and the astonishing speed of action in this time, I occasionally wonder if Uncle Bao's death is a bit boring, hehe, but this is completely out of speculation and has no factual basis. The above is the origin of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in "The Kingdom of Heaven".

II. The Legacy of the Kingdom Before Baldwin IV.

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Baldwin IV was the son of the younger brother of Baldwin I's cousin's grandson, and it seems that the blood relationship between the two kings was a little distant, but Baldwin IV's actions did not disgrace his ancestors.

Before Baldwin IV's short reign of less than 30 years, let me briefly review the lineage and major events of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in the previous 170 years, so as not to be abrupt. After the successful coronation of Baldwin I in 5B, that joy was raised.

If Bao Taizu's previous actions reflected the ruthlessness of the founding monarch without exception, then his subsequent governance of the country reflected excellent military and political talent.

First of all, he was clever enough to preemptively occupy a series of ports on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean and bring them under the rule of the kingdom, which was to ensure Europe's passage to the hinterland of the ****** world, and the Mediterranean countries voluntarily defended the east coast of Jerusalem in order to protect the common military and trade routes, and was ready to provide strong support at any time, and then he established suzerainty in Edessa, Antioch, and Tripolie, making the three shrimps a vassal of Jerusalem, so that Jerusalem would not have to be ****** Surrounded by forces, it seems to be invisible. After a few scattered hands, the kingdom of Jerusalem flourished for a time.

In 1118, Baldwin I, the lovely man of the world, finally burped. The kingdom was given to his cousin, King Edessa, Baldwin II. During his reign, he fought with the Seljuks many times and was captured many times, but each time he miraculously escaped unharmed, and after coming back, he was not ashamed at all, and continued to ride a tall horse out of the expedition. As a result of the campaign, by the time of his death in 1131, the kingdom had grown almost as much of Palestine as it had been under Baldwin I, reaching the central part of present-day Lebanon.

The Kingdom of Jerusalem was then led by Baldwin II's daughter and son-in-law, who represented the political and patriarchal lineage as heirs to the royal lineage, while the son-in-law was primarily responsible for the country's military security and exercised authority. Interestingly, this colt named Falk was also an excellent military commander, but he did not like to go out and raise the whip as much as his father-in-law, but only kept the whole kingdom safe, and during his lifetime he successfully resisted the attacks of the Zengi dynasty on Jerusalem and other Crusader states, and ensured that the followers of Jesus Christ could continue to live in peace and contentment in the land.

Falk fell to his death during a hunting operation in 1143. Taking this opportunity, the Zengi dynasty captured Edessa. This event gave rise to the Second Crusade in 1147.

In 1153, Falk's wife abdicated and his son Baldwin III ascended the throne. By this generation, the excellent bloodline of the Baldwin family had not faded, and according to historical records, the third young master took his sword and conquered Askelon, the last territory of Egypt in Palestine. But at the same time, the second generation of the leader of the Zengi dynasty, the promising monarch Naadin, also stepped onto the stage of history, conquering Damascus, unifying the ****** world of Syria, and posing a great threat to the Crusader states.

In 1162, the Third Young Master Baldwin died. His younger brother Amalek I ascended the throne, the father of Baldwin IV in "Heaven". Beginning with Amaryk, the father and son have been burdened with a long confrontation with two of the great leaders of the ****** world, Naadin and Saladin.

During his 12-year reign, Amalek I confronted Naadin while attempting to conquer all of Egypt, but failed. By 1174, he and Naadin were like an appointment, and they hiccuped one after another, presumably because the hero was lonely, and one died and the other committed suicide. In this way, the throne finally passed into the hands of Baldwin IV. The child, who was only 13 years old and 9 years old, was destined to take up the final burden of the kingdom and face the most dangerous enemy of his life, Saladin.

3. The Last Strong Man - The Story of a Leper

In 1161, in the Cathedral of Jerusalem, Archbishop of Tyre was baptizing an infant. The baptism was presided over by the baby's uncle and godfather, King Baldwin III of Jerusalem.

A small episode occurred during the baptism. When the king gave his name as a gift to the newborn, one of the king's close ministers made a joke: as the king of a country, it would be too stingy to give only one name to his nephew, and there were no other more formal gifts. The king laughed and pointed to the Holy Cross and said, "Then I will give him one more gift, King of Jerusalem!" But no one could have imagined that the king, who was in the prime of his life, would suddenly fall ill the following year.

Baldwin was very active at an early age, loved to learn martial arts, and liked to play games of a military nature with his partners. When he was nine years old, he was stabbed in the left arm by his partner with a wooden stick under the guidance of a teacher. The teacher shouted at his peers and was surprised to find that Baldwin's left arm was bruised and bruised, but he was still unimpressed. At first, the teacher thought it was Baldwin's natural tenacity, but then when asked, he realized that Baldwin didn't feel any pain from the stab. After the court physician's examination, it was confirmed that the nine-year-old prince was suffering from the most terrible disease of the time, leprosy.

News of the heir to the throne suffering from leprosy was kept tight, but the paper could not contain the fire, and Baldwin developed more and more diseases, and in order to hide his eyes, he had to start adding clothes to cover his body. Therefore, in the film "Heaven", the image of Baldwin IV that we see is not far from the truth of history.

Even so, it was no secret that Baldwin had leprosy when he was eleven or twelve years old. It always seems that providence had made Baldwin's father, Amalek I, live longer, and Baldwin might have died before he could inherit the throne, and he would not have to bear the great responsibility of the kingdom with his corrupt body. However, in 1174, when Naadin suddenly fell ill while competing with the newly rising Saladin for the position of ****** leader, the ambitious Amalek I (family tradition, as has always been the case) immediately made an expedition to Egypt to unite with Naadin's remnants to defeat Saladin, but fell ill on the way and had to withdraw his army and died on the way back.

Baldwin was only 13 years old this year, and according to the traditional aristocratic tradition, 15 years old is the age of succession to the throne, and about the succession of the throne, the hastily burping Amalek did not have time to leave any will, and how much can a leper who is only 13 years old count on? When Baldwin was crowned, his illness had to be completely disclosed to everyone. Strangely, after hearing this news, there was relative peace within the kingdom, and not too many people went viral, but it was the Holy See that brought pressure, because at that time it was generally believed that leprosy was God's punishment for sinners, so the Holy See thought that it was really unreasonable to let a person with divine punishment rule over the Holy Land. But the Jerusalem Council ignored the attitude of the Holy See, and the Archbishop of Jerusalem replied to the Holy See that the king was already the king of the anointed oil, and that there should be no doubt about the worldly authority and decision of the Lord!

There is a legend about Baldwin's coronation that at the time of his coronation, an eagle flew into the church, landed directly on the crown that the bishop was going to be crowned, and spread its wings, forming the shape of a cross exactly on the crown. (Seems to be awesome)

But always because of the young king, the council temporarily appointed a regent, this person is called Raymond, that is, the Tia in the "Heaven" film, this person has a very high status in the kingdom, is the leader of the Knights Hospitaller, in the "Heaven" film, the Knights Hospitaller and the Knights Templar belong to two different forces, which is consistent with historical facts, but in fact, the history of the Knights Hospitaller is longer than that of the Knights Templar, and it was directly under its command during the Folk period, and there were many glorious achievements. In short, Raymond swore allegiance to the king and became regent for the time being. At this point, Jerusalem is about to enter the historical period narrated in The Kingdom of Heaven. And Edward Norton's role as the Leper King will also usher in the few remaining years of his life, but he will be glorious.

In "Heaven", Barian appears after the Battle of Mongisa and on the eve of the Battle of Hardin, which should be in 1185 or 1186. In fact, Baron Barryn's appearance in history predates this time considerably. As early as 1174, when Baldwin IV was crowned, Barrian and his brother Baldwin (this Baldwin is not Baldwin, the same name is different) appeared on the stage of history as Raymond's supporters when they elected the regent. Therefore, of course, he was not born as a blacksmith, but a hereditary nobleman who did not deceive real money, and he was also a generation higher than Baldwin IV in terms of seniority, because in 1177 he married Amaryk I's widow, Baldwin IV's mother, as his wife, but in the film it was changed to him and Baldwin IV's sister (actually his sister) had a leg, which was quite funny, but it was unlikely, he was not that young, and when Baldwin IV died, he was nearly sixty years old (the fish fainted). Because his territory was in Iberlin, he was also called Barrian of Iberlin.

Back to Baldwin when he ascended the throne. The old aristocrat Raymond is not a figure like Dolgon, and he wants to command the world without great power in his hands, on the contrary, he is a relatively rational, or conservative ****, advocating to defend the territory and not easily provoke the sharp-edged Saladin. He had the least self-knowledge, knew that he was no match for Saladin, and in all fairness, not even he, so who was? Looking back at the leprosy boy beside him, who was tightly wrapped and silent under a mask all the year round. All Raymond wanted was peace.

Such a desire lasted only three years. In 1177, Saladin finally completed the foundation with Egypt as his base camp, Damascus as the center of ********, and the whole of Syria ****** the world as his wings, and reached a peace agreement with the Eastern Roman Empire, completing his strategic concept of distant and close attack. Everything was being prepared for the capture of Jerusalem, and at this time his hopes were unprecedentedly swelled, and he was only thinking about immortal deeds, and in his eyes, the kingdom of Jerusalem after the death of Amalek I had no rivals with him. So, in the autumn of 1177, Saladin set out with 30,000 Seljuk horsemen.

On the Jerusalem side, three years have proved that the regent Raymond does not have the means and ability to control all the forces of the kingdom. He only mastered the Knights Hospitaller, but he failed to master another important force, the Templars. The kingdom formed another force besides him, the new knightly nobles led by Renard, and the Templars were their capital. This Renard is the brother who was whipped by Baldwin in the film "Heaven".

Mr. Raymond is a ****, and Renard is an out-and-out hawk, and they don't bite each other for the issue of strategic direction, and Raymond maintains pressure on Renard by virtue of his identity as regent, so that Renard has never had the opportunity to provoke the ****** world. However, they did not know that the king of the desert had long since needed their provocation.

In the autumn of 1177, Saladin's 30,000 cavalry attacked in two directions, 20,000 of them attacking the Gaza Strip where the Templars were located (is the name familiar?), and 10,000 besieging Ascalon.

Jerusalem was barely prepared and was caught off guard at the outset. They didn't even get any information beforehand, and the result of the intelligence mistake was that before the enemy army reached Askallon, the king, accompanied by a small number of troops, went to that place and automatically delivered the lamb to the mouth of the hungry tiger

In the three years since he ascended the throne, he can only continue to remain silent in the midst of the chaos of state affairs, and no one has thought to ask the opinion of this leprosy patient, who may one day hang up, on the choice of national strategy. However, no one noticed that the blood and qualities of the Baldwin family had slowly formed in him, and would be burning in the few lives to come.

It soon became clear to the Seljuks that the king of Jerusalem was besieged by them in Askallon. An ecstatic Saladin immediately organized a fierce attack on the area, vowing to capture the enemy chieftain alive. The King's knightly guards calmly and thoughtlessly guarded the monarch's surroundings, determined to fight to the death. However, at this time, they heard the calm, sober and coherent instructions from the children behind them. The knights turned to look at the king in amazement, then bowed and raised their swords to carry out the order.

After repelling the Seljuk attack, the Baldwin's young tactical genius seized the gap in the opponent's offensive and led his men to break through. Saladin was furious and sent the Mamluk Horse Guards in pursuit, but to no avail.

Baldwin did not retreat to Jerusalem after breaking through the siege, but sent messengers to order the knights from all over the world to come and meet him at once, and at the same time march to the Knights Hospitaller's station. There, he met Renard, who was leading the remnants of the Templar Order to break through. The embarrassed Renard thought that the besieged king had returned to heaven ahead of schedule, but he did not expect that the king was already planning for a decisive battle. For the first time, he felt the grace that emanated from under the silver mask, and for the first time he realized the power and majesty of the king. The king of Jerusalem then gathered his main army and met Saladin, who had also gathered his army and had come to take Jerusalem, at Mongiza.

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On November 25, the two sides fought a big battle. The result ended in the defeat of Saladin, whose Mamluk guards were almost completely wiped out. Here is an introduction to what is the Mamluk cavalry, the Mamluk cavalry came from Egypt, but it was not composed of Egyptians, but a slave regiment composed of people from Thrace and Macedonia in Greece, Armenia in the Caucasus, Azerbaijan and other places, but this slave regiment is not quite the same as the others. The Mamluk cavalry were bought or abducted from their homeland before they were six years old, and the boys were largely unaware of their families and origins. The selected boys were castrated and then subjected to ruthless military training, with equestrianism and combat taking their main subjects. Generally a third of the boys die in the process of becoming adults, and the survivors are naturally trained to have no family, no affection, and not even a **** war machine.

This defeat caused Saladin to retreat to the east and recuperate his troops. However, the genius of war was not willing to be defeated at the hands of a weak-crowned leper. After a year's rest, in 1179, Saladin led an army against Renard and the Templars in the Springs, and Baldwin immediately brought a large army to fight.

The two sides faced off for a long time, and Saladin could not take advantage. So the two sides concluded a two-year truce. The King of the Desert was finally denied permission from the land of Jerusalem.

In "Heaven," Baldwin tells Sibylla on his deathbed that he seems to have returned to the time he was 16 years old, when a spirited teenager commanded the kingdom to defeat Saladin's elite. This battle was the Battle of Mongisa in 1177.

At the beginning of the film, all this is a thing of the past, and we see a king who is about to reach the end of his life, but its light completely obscures the so-called blacksmith protagonist and the quarrelsome people of all kinds, including Saladin.

After the Battle of the Valley of Springs in 1179, Saladin retreated to the desert and continued to await an opportunity to regain the Holy Land.

And during this time, among the people in the Holy Land, a lot of complicated things happened. When a strong enemy comes, people may be able to put aside their differences for a while and join forces to fight the enemy, but once the external threat is lifted, everything will immediately return to the original trajectory. After the death of Yuan Shao in the Three Kingdoms era, Cao Cao was not in a hurry to enter the army but had to wait for the infighting of the Yuan brothers, and the Kuomintang and the Communist Party immediately went to war after the surrender of Japan, which confirmed this law.

After the battles of Mongisa and the Valley of the Springs, Raymond and Renard began to have a new understanding of the "leper*** thing."

As a result of this realization, two important points are important, the first one: as Baldwin IV said when he beat Renard in "Heaven", "Jerusalem, I am the only one, and both factions must be reined in, and do not think that they can grasp any strategic direction." Only the will of the king is the will of the state, and immediately after the battle of Mongisa, Raymond sensibly resigned as regent and handed back the power; Since you don't have a chance to make a move for the time being, let's practice your internal skills first, anyway, you have to get through the second pulse of Ren Du before the other party.

In the beginning, Raymond's development momentum was quite good, and he started to send from the inside to strengthen the internal skills, and he was really practicing internal skills. Immediately after the Battle of Mongisa in 1177, he had his close comrade-in-arms Barian marry the widowed wife of Amaric I (Scott's adaptation allowed Barian to complete the great cause of mother-daughter and daughter-to-all), that is, he became the eldest of the king's stepfather. At the same time, Baldwin's illness made it impossible for the kingdom to initiate a war, so it seemed that Raymond's faction had the upper hand during this time.

But Renard on the other side was not idle, although he lacked talent in the cultivation of the inner family, it did not hinder his great determination to be a master of the outside family at all. First he recruited the new knightly nobles Courtnair and the Lucien family into his camp, and then he also used the vulgar but effective method of marriage, marrying the daughters of important nobles who helped the kingdom defend the southeastern region of the Dead Sea. After taking these big tonic pills, this gentleman's horizontal kung fu is also quite impressive.

Baldwin, who was getting sicker, was struggling to maintain the stability of the kingdom, and at the same time he knew that his restless courtiers were already preparing for a rainy day, but in this regard, he could only let out a bitter smile under his mask, because although he could be the king of Jerusalem and let Saladin live in the desert, he could not violate the fate that God had arranged for him.

In 1180, a new guest came to Jerusalem. A young noble knight, this man's name is Guy. is the idiot in the film "Heaven". The arrival of this man adds an unpredictable variable to the undercurrent of the kingdom, prompting a new change in the previously stalemate situation, which plays a decisive role in the future direction of the kingdom. Guy's own IQ and talent aside, but he is most likely a beautiful man. For he had not been in Jerusalem long before he captured the heart of the princess Sibirlah. Sibylla was also a widow who had a husband and a son, but her husband died short-lived. In short, this princess who hooked up with the elf prince in the movie is actually in love with Mr. Guy in reality. The love between the two parties was urged, and soon it reached the stage of talking about marriage.

Raymond objected to the marriage, because Renard had already recruited too many new nobles from outside, and no one knew what kind of character this new Guy was, so he had to be wary. But his behavior once again proved his limitations, because at this time Guy was actually a neutral, and the smart thing to do was to observe the development of the matter, understand the public's opinion of the marriage, and then at the right time to put the icing on the cake or charcoal in the snow, to gain Guy's gratitude and finally pull him in. But Raymond categorically objected without doing any research, which was a relatively trivial but rather stupid approach.

Although one of the two major forces in the rivers and lakes expressed opposition, the development of public opinion has made this matter more and more operational. The public generally believes that the aristocracy behind Guy is very powerful, and if he is recruited, Jerusalem will get a strong foreign aid, and people even think of Queen Merissad and her husband Falk, if this Guy is also a good person like Falk (laughing), can inherit the king's career, plus his resource background, wouldn't it be a good thing?***

In this way, Guy became the son-in-law of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, and immediately he responded to Raymond's previous "friendly *** behavior" and joined Renard's camp without hesitation (before Naadin and Saladin, now Raymond and Renard, I'm crazy with me, why can't foreigners take some names that are more different?). At this time, Raymond not only regretted his actions, but also wondered why Barian couldn't be younger and more handsome, so that he could directly seduce Sibylla in the first place, instead of marrying an old widow queen who had a very limited role in comparison. I am a little skeptical when I write this: Scott is a descendant of Raymond, who came here to tamper with history and make a wish for his ancestors?? (a burst of watermelon peels...... ）

Maybe it's because happiness comes too suddenly, which makes Renard, who got a strong help without much effort, a little fluttery. In 1181, he broke the truce, robbed a caravan of ******, attacked the Red Sea coast, and destroyed the ships of the pilgrims bound for Mecca.

Saladin couldn't sit still, and couldn't help it. He set out with a large army in 1182, vowing to teach these untrustworthy heretics a lesson. In the movie, it is said that Saladin led an army of 200,000, but in fact it is not so exaggerated, that year, that place, the scale of a group fight was at most 30,000 or 50,000 people.

At this time, Baldwin's condition had reached a rather serious point, and some parts of his body had begun to decay. He was no longer able to handle much government and had to hand over most of his power to his brother-in-law, and Guy became the second regent.

In 1183, Saladin attacked Jerusalem. Two crusaders from the West rushed to the aid (Guy really didn't brag about it, although he was a loser, he was indeed a *, and he did have some valuable resources in his hands). The kingdom's army marched out to the Sea of Galilee, where they blocked Saladin's way. This time the army was led by the newly appointed regent of Guy, assisted by Erlei as an assistant, and Baldwin stayed behind with a hint of apprehension to watch the performance ahead.

In the absence of the king, Erlei began to talk nonsense again, which was nothing more than an argument between sticking to and going out for a decisive battle. Raymond believed that the enemy army was a distant army, with a large number of people and high morale, but limited supplies, and that the decisive battle was exactly what they hoped for, and should be held. Needless to say, Renard's opinion is that everyone knows that there are always only two words in his spiritual world: PK. Guy felt that Raymond seemed to have some reason this time, but it was really unreasonable for him to be the leader of the ruling party to listen to the opinions of the opposition parties, and if nothing else, did you want to be the leader of the party?

Every move in front is mastered by the lepers in the rear. Baldwin could no longer sit and watch him do something stupid, and when he learned of his brother-in-law's intentions, he immediately dragged his crippled body to the front, and finally arrived before Guy set out, stopped his stupid behavior and took over the command of the army.

Saladin had made several challenges before that, using various means to lure Kigay out for a decisive battle, and was very happy to see that he was about to succeed. But as he prepared to attack, he learned that the Christian army would eventually remain ground. The depressed Saladin sent people to investigate, and the result was that the king's banner was erected in the other army's camp. So he knew that the leper, the half-dead leper, had come. The King of the Desert was silent in his tent for a long time, and finally ordered the withdrawal of his army, silently returning to the desert to await the day when his leper opponent would die. 4f6_,v@(N)P.J

I personally agree with Scott's interpretation of this paragraph in the movie, which more fully reflects Baldwin's spirit and irretrievable sadness.

Returning to Jerusalem, Guy's colt had no idea that he had just returned from the gate of demons, and he thought that the king's actions had caused him to lose face, and ran to the palace to quarrel with his brother-in-law, clamoring for no further obedience to the king's orders. Baldwin, who was lying on the sickbed, looked at him coldly, and forced himself not to let his sister become a widow a second time. Guy's demeanor had made it completely clear to him what this was about. He stripped Gay of his regency rights and his possessions in Jaffa and Ascade, and sent the Grand Imam and the two Knights of the Order to the West for help, knowing that the fire of his life was about to burn out, and that Saladin would come as soon as he died, and that he had to fight for the last defense of the country.

In 1185, at the age of 24, Baldwin was dying, and for the sake of his ancestors' inheritance, he supported the country for eleven years with superhuman perseverance and corrosive body, but now he can no longer support it. He summoned Raymond to make a will, appointing his 7-year-old nephew, Sibylla and her ex-husband's son Baldwin V, as heir, Raymond as regent, and strictly forbidding Guy from participating in power.

In March 1185, Baldwin IV, the leper, the unsurmountable opponent of Saladin, the last strong and most vulnerable of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, finally received the final liberation of body and soul.