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Baldwin IV started the week playing for Portland.
The marriage of Judith of Flanders ('Countess' Judith) in 1051 to Tostig Godwinson consolidated an alliance between the most powerful family in England and her father,
Baldwin IV. She is chiefly known to Anglo-Saxon scholars as the owner of four deluxe gospel books, commissioned in England, c.
Eventually our hero arrives to assist leper king
Baldwin IV and Marshall Tiberias.
At this critical juncture, political turmoil weakened Constantinople while Jerusalem was ruled by a fatally ill king,
Baldwin IV, who became involved in factional strife over policy and succession to his throne.
Eventually our hero arrives to assist leper king,
Baldwin IV, and Marshall Tiberias.
Eventually our hero arrives in Jerusalem to assist leper king,
Baldwin IV and Marshall Tiberias.
Most characters in the film are based on actual historical figures: the leper King
Baldwin IV, his politically shrewd sister Sybilla, her second husband the ambitious Guy of Lusignan, the militant warlord Reynauld de Chatillon, the honorable Muslim ruler Salah ed-Din (Saladin).
This is a rich visual tapestry of the exotic kingdom of Outremer under the religiously tolerant rule of
Baldwin IV, and the collapse of its uneasy trace with Saladin, played by Ghassan Massoud.
And when the peaceful Christian King
Baldwin IV dies, the bloodthirsty new monarch forces war with the powerful Muslim leader Saladin, and Balian finds himself in charge of protecting Jerusalem.
Ruled by a wise Christian king, frail leper
Baldwin IV (beautifully voiced by Edward Notion from behind a sculpted silver mask), the domain is further dominated by Baldwin's comely sister, Princess Sibylla (Eva Green), and her snaky husband, Guy de Lusignan (Marton Csokas), and his warmongering cohort, Reynald of Chatillon (Brendan Gleeson).
Hamilton criticizes the traditional argument that represents
Baldwin IV's reign as a period of decline linked to the lack of Baldwin's strength of will and body owing to leprosy.
Ceded in 1180 to
Baldwin IV by Onfroy de Toron in exchange for other territories, this castle was marginal in the crusader feudal system.