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	Joscelin II, Count of Edessa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joscelin II of Edessa (died 1159) was the fourth and last ruling count of Edessa.
		Joscelin was taken prisoner in 1150 and died in 1159.
		Joscelin II's grandchildren Baldwin IV and Sibylla were in turn monarchs of Jerusalem, as was his great-grandson Baldwin V.
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	County of Edessa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The County of Edessa was one of the Crusader states in the 12th century, in a city with an ancient history and an early tradition of Christianity (see Edessa).
		Joscelin was killed in battle in 1131 and was succeeded by his son Joscelin II.
		Joscelin continued to rule in his lands west of the Euphrates, centered around Turbessel, until 1149, when he was captured in battle by Zengi's son Nur ad-Din; he was kept prisoner until he died in 1159.
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	Joscelin I, Count of Edessa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was the son of Joscelin of Courtenay and Isabella of Montlhéry.
		After returning to Edessa he was able to enlarge the territory of the county, and in 1125 he participated in the Battle of Azaz, a Crusader victory against the atabeg of Mosul.
		When Joscelin's own son the future Joscelin II refused to aid the town, he commanded that his own army should decamp and Joscelin was borne on a litter before the army.
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	edessa
		On the Euphrates, the population was comprised of the Armenian faction (Separated Church) of the Eastern Church.
		Baldwin ll took control of Edessa and made Geoffrey the Monk, commander of the Garrison, protector of the city till the fate of Joscelin could be determined.
		Joscelin was defeated during a skirmish and Belek was killed durning a seige on one of his Arab rivals.
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	Encyclopedia: Joscelin II of Edessa
		The Siege of Edessa took place from November 28 to December 24, 1144, resulting in the fall of the majority of the crusader County of Edessa to Zengi, the atabeg of Mosul.
		Joscelin II's grandchildren Baldwin IV and Sibylle were in their turns monarchs of Jerusalem, as was his great-grandson Baldwin V. Agnes of Courtenay (died c.
		Joscelin III of Edessa was the titular count of Edessa from the death of his father, Joscelin II in 1159, to his own death in 1200.
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	Articles - Joscelin III of Edessa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		He inherited the title of "Count of Edessa" from his father, Joscelin II; but Edessa had been captured in 1144 and the remnants of the county (such as the Lordship of Turbessel) conquered or sold years before he took the title.
		Joscelin played little role in the Third Crusade and the politics of the Kingdom in the 1190s, and seems to have died in 1200.
		Joscelin's seigneurie was bought from his daughters by Hermann of Salza, the master of the Teutonic Knights, in 1220.
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		The Phoenician Inscription of Edessa in Macedonia A marble inscription proporting to prove the Illyrian ethnic origin of ancient Macedonians and the location of their first capital Aigai in Edessa.
		The Phoenician inscription of Edessa in Macedonia This 2900 years old Phoenician inscription from Macedonia unveils the Illyrian ethnic origin of ancient Macedonians and confirms that their first capital Aigai was located in former Phrygian capital Edessa
		Edessa A titular archiepiscopal see in that part of Mesopotamia formerly known as Osrhoene.
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	Warfare in the Crusader States (1104-1127), according to the Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa
		The Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa is considered by scholars to be a primary source of major importance for the history of the Near East during the period of the early Crusades.
		Joscelin assaulted the tower [in which the Turks were ensconced] with such bravery that he hurled down all their men from the walls; in this way the traitors who had handed over the tower and the infidels who had occupied it perished at the same time.
		Joscelin and Galeran were taken to Eharberd in chains and there thrown in prison, while twenty-five of their comrades were taken to Balu.
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	edessa
		Edessa is the historical name of a town in northern Mesopotamia.
		The name under which Edessa figures in cuneiform inscriptions is unknown; the native name was Osroe, after its purported founder (who was probably only legend), this being the Armenian form for Chosroes; it became in Syriac Ourhoï, in Armenian Ourhaï in Arabic Er Roha, commonly Orfa or Sanli Urfa, its present name.
		Famous individuals connected with Edessa include: Jacob Baradaeus, the real chief of the Syrian Monophysites known after him as Jacobites; Stephen Bar Sudaïli, monk and pantheist, to whom was owing, in Palestine, the last crisis of Origenism in the sixth century; Jacob, Bishop of Edessa, a fertile writer (d.
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	Joscelin I of Edessa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joscelin of Courtenay or Joscelin I ruled over the County of Edessa during its zenith, from 1118 to 1131.
		In 1125 he also participated in the Battle of Azaz, a Crusader victory against the atabeg of Mosul.
		When Joscelin's own son refused to aid the town, he commanded that his own army should decamp and Joscelin was borne on a litter before the army.
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	Principality of Antioch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Unlike Baldwin in Edessa, who was already a count in France, Bohemund did not hold the title of prince in Europe, but this did not deter the creation of a Principality.
		After the fall of Edessa in 1144, Antioch was attacked by Nur ad-Din during the Second Crusade.
		It extended around the northeastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea, bordering on the County of Tripoli to the south, Edessa to the east, and the Byzantine Empire or the Kingdom of Armenia to the northwest, depending on the date.
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	Grafschaft Edessa - Wikipedia
		Joscelin I. von Edessa wurde 1122 erneut gefangen genommen, und als Balduin kam, um ihn zu befreien, erlitt dieser das gleiche Schicksal, so dass Jerusalem nun ohne König war.
		Zu dieser Zeit hatte Zengi Aleppo und Mosul unter seine Herrschaft gebracht und begann nun, Edessa zu bedrohen.
		Joscelin regierte jetzt nur noch die Gebiete westlich des Euphrats rund um Turbessel, bis er 1149 in einer Schlacht durch Zengis Sohn Nur ad-Din gefangen genommen wurde.
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	County Of Edessa Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Bohemund's brother Tancred became regent in Edessa (although Richard of Salerno actually governed the territory), until Baldwin and Joscelin were ransomed in 1108.
		Joscelin continued to rule his lands west of the Euphrates, and he also managed to take advantage of the death of Zengi in September 1146 to regain and hold briefly his old capital.
		Edessa was the first Crusader state to be captured, and also the first to be lost.
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	Joscelin II of Edessa -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Joscelin II of Edessa (died 1159) was the fourth and last ruling (Click link for more info and facts about count of Edessa) count of Edessa.
		Joscelin II ruled the weakest and most isolated of the (Click link for more info and facts about Crusader states) Crusader states.
		Joscelin fled to (Click link for more info and facts about Turbessel) Turbessel, where he held the remnants of the county west of the (A river in southwestern Asia; flows into the Persian Gulf; was important in the development of several great civilizations in ancient Mesopotamia) Euphrates.
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	Islam during the Crusades (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		At the same time, and for much the same reasons, Raymond of Antioch and Joscelin of Edessa advanced separately toward Edessa.
		Joscelin actually broke into the city, but could not take the citadel.
		Because the Armenians of Edessa had conspired with Joscelin to betray the city, Nuradin now returned and massacred the entire male Christian population.
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	Battle of Azaz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Baldwin II, Joscelin I, and Pons of Tripoli, with a force of 1100 knights from their respective territories (including knights from Antioch, where Baldwin was regent), as well as 2000 other foot soldiers, met il-Bursuqi outside Azaz, where the Seljuk atabeg had gathered his much larger force.
		After a long and bloody battle, the Seljuks were defeated and their camp captured by Baldwin, who took enough loot to ransom the prisoners taken by the Seljuks (including the future Joscelin II of Edessa).
		Baldwin planned to attack Aleppo as well, but Antioch, which passed to Bohemund II when he came of age in 1126, began to fight with Edessa and the plan fell through.
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	Smbat Sparapet's Chronicle, Cilician Armenian History, Byzantine History, Crusaders, Kilij-Arslan, Baudoin, Tancred, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The count of Edessa and Joscelin became inflated with pride and got ahead of Bohemond so that they themselves would be the first to fight and enjoy the glory of triumph.
		Then Baudoin and Joscelin arose onto the wall with their troops and valiantly harassed the troops of the infidels, hurling them down from the heights, and emptying the city of the foreigners.
		When Baudoin, lord of Edessa, learned about this he was ashamed of the unjust deed he had done, and ordered that all [the deportees] be returned to their homes.
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	Joscelin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Joscelin knew the history of it nearly as.
		Joscelin of Courtenay or Joscelin I ruled over the County of Edessa during its zenith, from 1118 to east of Aleppo, a sapper's mine collapsed and Joscelin was gravely injured.
		To enjoy pleasure in pain, finding love with Joscelin, who knew from the beginning what she was condemned as an oath breaker, Joscelin has never violated the central precept.
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	ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
		Two further consequences of the defeat were that Tancred, who had not returned to Tiberias in the meantime, was named regent of Edessa, and the Byzantines were emboldened to recapture Cilicia and the harbor and lower town of Lattakieh.
		Meanwhile Tancred, regent of both Antioch and neighboring Edessa, refused to relinquish the county upon the return in 1108 of Baldwin of Bourcq and Joscelin of Courtenay.
		With the king’s death in 1131 his daughter Alice, widow of Bohemond II and mother of Constance, contrived, with the aide of both Tripoli and Edessa (both of which wished to abolish the overlordship of Jerusalem) to ascend to power.
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	Smbat Sparapet's Chronicle, Cilician Armenian History, Byzantine History, Bohemond, Saljuqs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Joscelin was the count of Edessa, lord of Tell Bashir, Hor'omklay, Peria, and Nzepi.
		Thus as Count Joscelin was heading toward Antioch at night, he happened to turn aside from the road a while to fulfill a call of nature, while his comrades continued on.
		Count Joscelin gave to Lord Grigoris and to Lord Nerse's a document written in his own hand [stating] that Hor'omklay would remain the seat of the Armenian patriarchate in perpetuity.
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	My Lines - Person Page 373
		She was the daughter of Joscelin I, comte d' Edessa and Maria of the Principate.
		Joscelin II, comte d'Edessa was the son of Joscelin I, comte d' Edessa and Beatrice Rupenid.
		Seneschal of Jerusalem Joscelin de Courtenay was the son of Joscelin II, comte d'Edessa.
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	Joscelin I of Edessa -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Joscelin of Courtenay or Joscelin I ruled over the (Click link for more info and facts about County of Edessa) County of Edessa during its zenith, from 1118 to 1131.
		In 1131, during the siege of a small castle north-east of (A city in northwestern Syria) Aleppo, a (A military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications)) sapper's mine collapsed and Joscelin was gravely injured.
		Shortly thereafter, he received word that (An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia)) emir (Click link for more info and facts about Ghazi) Ghazi of (Click link for more info and facts about Danishmend) Danishmend was marching against the fortress town of Kaisun.
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	ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
		Joscelin raised an army and marched out in November, hoping to trap Zengi between himself and Kara Arslan.
		Zengi's career is important because of his conquest of Edessa, but it is important even more for the fact that he couched his actions against the Christians in terms of a Muslim holy war.
		He had a truce with Joscelin, but in April, while riding to Antioch, Joscelin became separated from his escort and was captured by some Turcoman freebooters who wanted to sell him for ransom.
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	Joscelin II de Edessa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Joscelin II rechazado para marchar el ejército pequeño de Edessan hacia fuera para resolver el Danishmends, así que Joscelin I, en su acto pasado, forzó el Danishmends retirar, muriendo pronto después.
		Joscelin huyó a Turbessel, donde él sujetó los remanente del condado al oeste del Euphrates.
		Joscelin fue tomado a preso en 1150 y muerto en 1159.
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	Encyclopedia: Joscelin-I-of-Edessa
		He arrived in the Holy Land during the Crusade of 1101 after the First Crusade.
		The Battle of Harran took place on May 7, 1104 between the Crusader states of the Principality of Antioch and the County of Edessa, and the Seljuk Turks.
		Categories: Counts of Edessa Baldwin of Bourcq (died August 21, 1131) was the second count of Edessa from 1100 to 1118, and the third king of Jerusalem from 1118 until his death.
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	ipedia.com: Baldwin II of Jerusalem Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Baldwin of Boulogne, the first Count of Edessa, appointed Baldwin of Bourcq count when the former became king of Jerusalem in 1100.
		Baldwin was captured by the Seljuks while patrolling the borders of his former county of Edessa in 1123, and was held captive until he was ransomed in 1124.
		Had Antioch and Edessa not been fighting amongst themselves after the battle, Baldwin may have been able to attack Aleppo; however, Aleppo and Mosul were soon united under Zengi in 1128.
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