Fulk of Anjou arrives in Jerusalem

1129

The French count, widowed and freshly pilgrim-minded, married Baldwin II's daughter Melisende and became heir presumptive to the Crusader throne. He brought Angevin silver, a political sense honed in French dynastic feuds, and a quarrel with his new wife that would shape the kingdom. Melisende proved a formidable queen in her own right, and the tension between her authority and Fulk's ambition kept the Latin court in turmoil for a decade.