Sibylla of Jerusalem

of the main things that I will be pointing out to you today is Sybilla's love story, Balians real home, and the creation of the longbow. This may not be interesting right now, but after you read the rest I would hope that you can walk away with an understanding as to what Hollywood does to make their movies more appealing to you with less historical corrections, enjoy! So let's talk about Sybilla, the beautiful princess and soon to be Queen of Jerusalem. In the movie “Kingdom of Heaven”, she was forced to marry the fourth son of the Lord of Lusignan, Guy de Lusignan. “ This explanation of events makes perfect sense and appears borne out by Sibylla’s subsequent behavior”…

Balian tend to reach his father, on the way to the holy land and joins him to the journey. Hoping that to gain forgiveness for what he have done to his half-brother and redemption for her wife in Jerusalem. Then a bishop tend to sue Balian for what he has done but Baron Godfrey refuses to surrender his son and leads to a Brutal battle among the crusaders. Baron was fatally wounded after the battle, caused by an break off arrow in his body. Before the death of Godfrey he made his son the next…

journey to Jerusalem. Between the weapons, relationships and battles in the movie there was a lot of inaccuracies. Hollywood wants to portray these things to capture the attention of people. Also, to make the films visible to all viewers. The weaponry in this movie was not exactly portrayed in the right way or at the right time. The accuracy and velocity were both wrong as well. First, the longbows were never used until the Battle of Crecy on August 26, 1346. The Kingdom Of Heaven is…

The Siege of Jerusalem was an attack on the city of Jerusalem that kept going from September 20 to October 2, 1187, when Balian of Ibelin surrendered the city to Saladin. Natives wishing to leave paid a ransom.The annihilation of Jerusalem flagged the finish of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Europe reacted in 1189 by propelling the Third Crusade drove by Richard the Lionheart, Philip Augustus, and Frederick Barbarossa independently. In Tire, Balian of Ibelin had approached Saladin for safe section…

captured by the Saracens. In 1183 Saladin once again went on the offensive against Raynald of Châtillon, Lord of Oultrejordain, whose castle fortress was at Kerak, after Raynald captured the town of Aqaba, which lay within striking distance of Mecca. Saladin lay siege to Kerak in 1183 and again in 1184 but made a tactical withdrawal after King Baldwin IV went to the aid of Raynald. Saladin had entered into various truces with the Franks in 1175, 1180, 1182 and the truce of 1185 which was…

fault of killing his half brother in a moment of rage by fighting the holy war to protect the holy land of Jerusalem. When he reached Godfrey who turned out to be his father, the soldiers of the church chased after Balian. During a confrontation with the church soldiers, his father Godfrey was shot by an arrow and soon dead due to the poisoning arrow. Before his death, he bestowed his leadership…

Chatillon had a reputation for aggravating Saldin and was the fuel for the Muslim chief’s anger and hatred towards the Christians. (The Crusades: Christians at War, pg. 44). It was near the end of 1187 when Chatillon broke the truce by ransacking an Arab troop, while travelling from Cairo to Damascus. (The Crusades: Christians at War, pg. 44, Britannica- Reginald de Châtillon). The Muslim caravan was travelling to Mecca to deliver goods and slaves with the people of Damascus since a truce ,in…

defend the Principality of Galilee. The battle occurred after Saladin’s army crossed into Galilee and besieged the city of Tiberias on July 2 1187, the Franks marched to relieve the siege and defeat the Saracen army. It can be suggested that the failure of the Frankish army at the Battle of Hattin marked the end of the Frankish Kingdom in the Holy Land which had existed for eighty-eight years , though some resisted long after the battle. Three key factors attributed to the defeat of the Franks:…