Susan B. Edgington is a teaching and research fellow at Queen Mary University of London. She has written extensively on many aspects of the crusades, but it is her close familiarity with the Latin sources for the period in question, 1095-1118, that uniquely qualifies her to write this biography. She is the editor and translator of Albert of Aachen's Historia Ierosolimitana (Oxford, 2007); translator (with Thomas S. Asbridge) of Walter the Chancellor's The Antiochene Wars (Aldershot, 1999); (with Carol Sweetenham) of The Chanson d'Antioche (Farnham, 2011); and (with Steven Biddlecombe) of Badric of Bourgueil's History of the Jerusalemites (Woodbridge, forthcoming). Her critical comparison of the relationship of Bartolf of Nangis' Gesta Francorum Iherusalem expugnantium with the chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres (Crusades 13, 2014) will lead to a new edition and translation of this important source.

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Preface

Note on translations

1. First Crusader
   Baldwin the Younger Son
   The First Crusade
   The Journey to Constantinople
   Contacts with Byzantium
   Constantinople
   The Oath to Alexios
   The Evidence



2. Nicaea to Edessa
   The Siege of Nicaea
   The Battle of Dorylaeum
   Cilician Adventure or Cilician Campaign?
   Tarsus
   Mamistra
   Coming of Age
   Turbessel



3. Count of Edessa
   Why Edessa?
   The Invitation from Edessa
   The Coup
   Ruler of Edessa
   The Armenian Marriage
   Rebellion
   Support for the Crusade
   Pilgrimage to Jerusalem



4. Crisis in Jerusalem, 1100
   Bohemond's Capture
   Godfrey's Rule in Jerusalem
   Godfrey's Title
   Godfrey's Death
   The Succession Dispute
   Baldwin's Journey to Jerusalem



5. King of Jerusalem
   A Royal Progress
   Coronation
   Tancred
   Bohemond's Captivity and Release
   Raymond of Saint-Gilles
   Daibert of Pisa
   The Failure of the Holy Fire, 1101
   Six Years Later



6. Ecclesiastical Affairs
   The Patriarchate of Jerusalem
   Daibert of Pisa
   Baldwin's Accession
   Patriarch Evremar (1102-1108)
   Patriarch Gibelin (1108-1112)
   Patriarch Arnulf (1112-1118)



7. The Conquest of the Littoral
   IntroductionThe Situation at Baldwin's Accession
   The Capture of Arsuf, 1101
   The Siege and Capture of Caesarea, 1101
   The Siege and Capture of Acre, 1104
   The Capture of Tripoli (1109) and Beirut (1110)
   The Capture of Sidon, 1110
   Conclusion



8. Fighting the Saracens
   The First Battle of Ramla, 1101
   Arrival of the 'Crusade of 1101'
   The Second Battle of Ramla, 1102
   A Saracen Ambush, 1103
   The Third Battle of Ramla, 1105
   Ambushes and Raids



9. The Army, Administration, and Allies
   Introduction
   The Army
   Administration
   The Crusader States
   Edessa and Antioch
   Tripoli
   Attacks by Mawd¿d of Mosul, 1110-1113
   The Turkish Invasion of 1115
   Byzantium
   Sicily



10. Last Years and Legacy
    Introduction
    Into Arabia
    The Last Campaign
    The Funeral Procession
    Tomb and Epitaph
    Twelfth-Century Assessments of Baldwin
    William of Tyre
    Baldwin's Marriages
    The Succession
    Conclusion

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