High Middle Ages · Middle East · Politics
1099
Godfrey of Bouillon elected ruler of Jerusalem
July 22, 1099
The Lotharingian duke, chosen over his rivals as leader of the captured city, refused the title of king in the place where Christ had worn a crown of thorns and accepted instead the humbler Advocate of the Holy Sepulchre. He would rule just a year before dying of illness the following summer.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.