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| | Amalric I of Jerusalem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Both Amalric and Nur ad-Din, ruler of Mosul, Aleppo, and Damascus, wanted control of Fatimid caliphs of Egypt; the crusaders hadwanted to conquer Egypt since the days of Baldwin I,and even Godfrey of Bouillon had promised to cede Jerusalem to the Patriarch Dagobert of Pisa if hecould capture Cairo. |
 | | Amalric I, the second king to be born in Jerusalem rather than in Europe, was, likehis brother Baldwin III, more of a scholar than a warrior. |
 | | Amalric commissioned William of Tyre to write his history of the kingdom, and he often studied the laws of the kingdom in hisleisure time. |
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