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  ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
Daimbert claimed that he was the true ruler of Jerusalem, in the name of the papacy, but the nobles chose to treat Jerusalem as a hereditary fief and so it naturally fell to the next of kin.
Yolanda was sent to Palermo, where she gave birth to a son, Conrad, on 25 April 1228.
Jerusalem now had a King and an heir, but its Queen was dead and John of Brienne was an outcast, and the Kingdom was in effect ruled by foreigners.
www.the-orb.net /textbooks/crusade/jerusalem.html   (16162 words)

  
 History of the Hospitallers until 1798.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Prior to the conquest of Jerusalem by the Crusaders, with the knowledge that Jerusalem was going to be besieged, the Administrator, Peter Gerard #6 along with other Christians were banished from the city by the Moslem authorities.
Jerusalem would have to wait just short of another seven hundred years before a Christian Army under the leadership of a Knight of St. John, wrested it from Moslem rule #29.
In 1220 he was crowned Emperor but still prevaricated and in 1225 married Yolanda, Queen of Jerusalem, whose father John had ruled as King, as a consort to her mother Maria.
www2.prestel.co.uk /church/oosj/sjhist1.htm   (7491 words)

  
 Cyprus History: Lusignan Period - Alix (Alice) of Jerusalem-Champagne, Queen of Cyprus & Regent of Jerusalem
Alice married (1208) Hugues, son of Amaury of Cyprus/Amaury II of Jerusalem (also her step-brother as his father was her mother's third husband), the arrangements being made by her grandmother Maria Comnena and dowry provided by Blanche of Navarre, Countess of Champagne.
Alice was also the aunt of Yolanda (1225), the daughter of her half-sister Maria of Montferrat, and titular Queen of Jerusalem.
In Jerusalem, Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor was recognized as suzerain but not regent of Cyprus (1228) in his capacity as the husband of the young Queen Yolanda.
www.cypnet.com /.ncyprus/history/lusignan/1hugues1a.htm   (515 words)

  
 Medieval Sourcebook: The Crusade of Frederick II, 1228-29
After seducing one of Yolanda's cousins, Frederick banished his fourteen­year­old bride to the harem which he kept at Palermo, where she bore the Emperor a son, Conrad, in 1228.
Yolanda died less than week later, but formally the title to the Latin Kingdom had already passed to her infant son, and Frederick was forced to be content with the position of regent for his son ­ if, according to the customs of the Kingdom, the Latin barons could be persuaded to accept his regency.
Jerusalem and Bethlehem were restored to Christian hands and a corridor linking the cities with the sea was also ceded to the Latins.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/1228frederick2.html   (3151 words)

  
 Kingdoms of Canaan - Jerusalem
As partially depicted in a somewhat distorted version of history in the film Kingdom of Heaven, 2005, Balian of Ibelin (who was married to Maria Comnena, Sibylla's step-mother and a former queen of Jerusalem) and Raymond III of Tripoli are present at the Battle of Hattin and manage to fight their way out.
Balian returns to a Jerusalem which has already been abandoned by Sibylla and Guy and, after allowing Saladdin to escort his wife and children to safety, takes control of the defence of the city from the incompetent Patriarch.
Jerusalem regained after it is ceded by the Ayyubids.
www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsMiddEast/CanaanJerusalem.htm   (383 words)

  
 WIC Biography - Yolanda Walther-Meade
Yolanda Walther-Meade is an active philanthropist and community catalyst in both the Tijuana and San Diego communities.
Yolanda is also Vice President and Founder of the Fundación Internacional de la Comunidad, AC since 2000, the first community foundation in Baja California, a board member of the Club de Niños y Niñas, AC.
She was honored with her family, as the Yolanda Walther-Meade 2006 Legacy by the American Heart Association and is going to receive the Living Legacy Award by the Women International Center, in May 2006.
www.wic.org /bio/w_m_yolanda.htm   (428 words)

  
 Cyprus History: Lusignan Period - Alix (Alice) of Jerusalem-Champagne, Queen of Cyprus & Regent of Jerusalem
Alice married (1208) Hugues, son of Amaury of Cyprus/Amaury II of Jerusalem (also her step-brother as his father was her mother's third husband), the arrangements being made by her grandmother Maria Comnena and dowry provided by Blanche of Navarre, Countess of Champagne.
Alice was also the aunt of Yolanda (1225), the daughter of her half-sister Maria of Montferrat, and titular Queen of Jerusalem.
In Jerusalem, Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor was recognized as suzerain but not regent of Cyprus (1228) in his capacity as the husband of the young Queen Yolanda.
www.cypnet.co.uk /ncyprus/history/lusignan/1hugues1a.htm   (515 words)

  
 Jerusalem 3000: Celebrating Three Millennia of History
Jerusalem's unique position among cities of the world derives from its crucial role in religious history as a holy city for three great monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Jerusalem's powerful emotional appeal has inspired a prodigious outpouring of prose and poetry, artistic renderings, and, of course, maps.
This exhibition presents a selection of maps and views to illustrate the history of Jerusalem as it celebrates the 3000th anniversary of its establishment as the capital of King David's unified Kingdom of Israel.
www.usm.maine.edu /~maps/exhibit1   (426 words)

  
 Conrad IV of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Conrad IV (April 25, 1228 – May 21, 1254) was king of Jerusalem (as Conrad II) (1228–1254), of Germany (1237–1254), and of Sicily (as Conrad I) (1250–1254).
He was a son of the Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick II and the queen regnant of Jerusalem, Yolanda.
Born in Andria, Conrad was the sole male son of Frederick and Yolanda, who died while bearing him.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conrad_IV_of_Germany   (418 words)

  
 Outremer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
At the result, Frederick was recognized as the overlord of Cyprus and as the Regent for Jerusalem, rather than what he wanted, which was to be the direct lord of Cyprus and the King of Jerusalem.
He got agreement that the Jerusalem matter would be heard before the High Court in Acre.
The barons were already hostile, and now even his own troops were uncertain whether they should continue to serve on a mission that had been condemned by the pope.
crusades.boisestate.edu /outremer/43.shtml   (584 words)

  
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Jerusalem Road is a highly charged work created in response to conflicts in the Middle East.
Shot during a residency at Israel's Beersheva Institute of Art, the melting, shifting images -- ancient cities and countryside, old and young men -- eloquently articulate the deep political and religious schisms of modern Israel.
Gorewitz heightens the sense of ancient regional conflict and history with an underlying soundtrack of Hebraic chanting, recorded in the chambers under Jerusalem's Temple Wall.
www.eai.org /eai/tape.jsp?itemID=3279   (257 words)

  
 Crusader States, Kings of Jerusalem & Cyprus, Templars, Hospitallers, Israel, etc.
The Kingdom of Jerusalem included three significant feudal dependencies: the County of Edessa (1098-1144), the Principality of Antioch (1098-1268), and the County of Tripoli (1109-1289).
This section is cross-indexed with Jerusalem, Outremer, Francia, and the Periphery of Francia (as part of Eastern Europe and Scandinavia).
Israel, in one respect the hope of centuries of Jews to be "next year in Jerusalem," thus clings dangerously to a hostile shore, not unlike the Kingdom of Jerusalem itself.
www.friesian.com /outremer.htm   (14353 words)

  
 Yolande of Jerusalem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yolande of Brienne (1212 - 1228), also known as Yolanda or Isabella II, became Queen of Jerusalem as an infant in 1212.
She was the only child of Maria of Montferrat, Queen of Jerusalem, and John of Brienne.
Maria was the daughter of Queen Isabella of Jerusalem by her second husband Conrad I, and heiress, on her mother's death, of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yolande_of_Jerusalem   (245 words)

  
 Sixth Crusade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Kingdom of Jerusalem was currently without a king—John of Brienne had been acting as regent, and his daughter Yolanda was to be Queen.
Yolanda and Frederick were married in November of 1225, at Brindisi.
Within days, Yolanda complained to her father that Frederick had seduced one of her cousins.
crusades.boisestate.edu /6th/02.shtml   (184 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
JERUSALEM II: Or, a cross couped argent between four heurts.* Second Arms of Dominion of the Crusader Kingdom, NDNP, as depicted on the seal of Guy of Lusignan, the eighth king; tinctures uncertain.
JERUSALEM III: Or, a cross potent between four crosslets argent.* Third Arms of Dominion of the Crusader Kingdom, NDNP, as depicted on a coin of Aimery de Lusignan, the ninth king; tinctures uncertain.
JERUSALEM IV: Or crusilly (crosslets) argent, a cross also argent.* Fourth Arms of Dominion of the Crusader Kingdom, NDNP, used during the later part of the regency of John de Brienne, the tenth king, as described by Matthew Paris.
www.pvv.ntnu.no /~bcd/rolemaster/novi/her-list.txt   (18606 words)

  
 TAU News - If I Forget Thee O Jerusalem
Moshe Safdie is a world-famous architect, author and educator, with offices in Boston, Jerusalem, Montreal and Toronto.
His work encompasses the design of public and academic institutions, cultural and civic projects, and housing complexes, and the planning of new communities such as the city of Modi'in in Israel.
The Symposium was organized by the Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts, the Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, the Art History Department, and the David Azrieli School of Architecture.
www.tau.ac.il /taunews/99spring/jerusalem.html   (402 words)

  
 A guide to the Most Important 19th Century Maps of Jerusalem
F.W. Sieber, Karte von Jerusalem, und seiner naechsten Umgebungen, geometrisch aufgenommen, Prag 1818.
In Yolanda Jones, "British Military Surveys of Palestine 1840-1", The Cartographic Journal of the British Cartographic Society, (1973), pp 29-41
Tobler, "Planographic von Jerusalem (Memoir to the Plan of the Town and Environs"...
www.gilai.com /books/articles/imp_maps_jerusalem.html   (170 words)

  
 Hohenstaufen Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Frederick's second wife, Yolanda of Brienne, was heiress to the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Pope Gregory IX excommunicated Frederick, using as an excuse his procrastination in fulfilling a vow to go on crusade (this was prior to the crusade that made him King of Jerusalem).
Frederick had Germany, Sicily, and later Jerusalem, as well as supporters in Italy and other parts of Europe, but little loyalty among his subjects.
www.9sshohenstaufen.com /HohenFamily.html   (865 words)

  
 Travel Guide To Turkey, Guide de la Turquie, GUIDE MARTINE, Guide to Turkey, Guide de Turquie, Travel, Turkey, Voyage, ...
The First Crusade took place between 1095-1099 and was launched under the support of Pope Urban II and the Roman Catholic Church to regain control of Jerusalem, liberate the Holy Sepulchre from the Moslems, and to help the Byzantines fight the infidel Seljuk Turks advancing into the heart of Eastern Christendom.
In 1098, Edesse fell to Baldwin of Boulogne and was to become a county for almost 50 years.
A coastal strip from Ascalon to Antioch was restored to Crusader control and Saint-Jean d'Acre became the nominal capital of the remnant of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
www.guide-martine.com /crusade.asp   (2555 words)

  
 Wedding Location and Directions
Special thanks are owed to Yolanda Sanchez-Kasofsky for arranging to use the Broadmoor and for making sure we didn't get too wild, and Nancy and Zach Abu Ghannam, for letting us use their extensive connections, which stretch from the Broadmoor to the Mount of Olives.
Nancy and Zach Abu Ghannam, originally from the Mt. of Olives in Jerusalem, with Romney Wright, who with her family was kind enough to lend us their Chincoteaque, Virginia beach cottage for our brief honeymoon.
Speaking of Jerusalem, these are our good friends, the Kenney-Shawa family (Ellen and Aladeen, with children Tariq and Zayneb), whom we know from time served together at the Albright Institute.
members.boo.net /~jlevtov/scenes.htm   (488 words)

  
 Gothic Paris at UC | Frederick II, 1194-1250
As Emperor, his aim was to unify the world, yet at the same time he transformed his beloved Sicily into the first individual state, governed by his absolute authority.
Two months before, his second wife, Yolanda, Queen of Jerusalem had died giving birth to Conrad, causing Frederick to lose his position as King of Jerusalem, but he headed for the East to demand Jerusalem as his rightful possession (19-20).
To the discontent of the Christian world, Frederick gained the Holy Places without bloodshed, and the papal ban was lifted on August 28 (22-23).
www.nku.edu /~rosemi/paris/ver2/bios/frederick_ii.html   (2461 words)

  
 chronological 1200 - 1249
November 09: Frederick II of Hohenstaufen marries Yolanda (Isabella) of Jerusalem, daughter of John of Brienne, nominal king of Jerusalem.
Yolanda was sixteen years old and had just given birth to Conrad, son of German emperor Frederick II.
With her death, Jerusalem was now ruled by Frederick alone, a man with no blood ties to the first families that had captured Jerusalem and the Holy Lands.
www.allcrusades.com /CHRONOLOGICAL/chrono-1200-1249.html   (5402 words)

  
 Israel Heads
Her son Baldwin would not agree to this and once again the Kingdom of Jerusalem was divided - this time between the supporters of Melisende and those of her son.
The nobles of Outremer decided though that she was rather young and the Jerusalem should be ruled by a man and so the search went out for a suitable husband for this young woman.
As she was the great-aunt of King Conrad of Germany, who succeeded to the throne of Jerusalem but who had failed to come East to accept throne, Alice was entrusted with regency of Jerusalem, which passed to her son and heir Henry, King of Cyprus, on her death.
www.guide2womenleaders.com /Israel_Heads.htm   (1026 words)

  
 Rome and Romania, Roman Emperors, Byzantine Emperors, etc.
When Jerusalem fell to Titus, the Temple and most of the city were demolished.
There is no mention, however, except for the fabulous stories about the Templars, of anything, generally or specifically, from the Temple in Jerusalem being found by the Crusaders, and nothing of the sort has ever subsequently been noticed kept at Venice or elsewhere.
Jerusalem would never be recovered, except temporarily by the Crusaders.
www.friesian.com /romania.htm   (13904 words)

  
 Cyprus Heads
In Jerusalem, Friedrich II, Holy Roman Emperor was recognized as suzerain but not regent of Cyprus in 1228, because of his marriage to Queen Yolanda.
Alice was daughter and Heriess Presumptive of King Henri I of Jerusalem and Princess Isabella d'Anjou of Jerusalem.
Her husband, Pierre I de Lusignan, who had been away on various expeditions since 1365, returned to Cypern in 1368, he retaliated on the nobles who had been her favourites during his absence, and behaved with such haughtiness and tyranny that he alienated the sympathy of his barons and even of his brothers.
www.guide2womenleaders.com /cyprus_heads.htm   (1440 words)

  
 The Scientist : Research Notes
Using barbiturate microinjections, Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers surveyed most of the subcortical forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain of rats.
An anesthesia-like state was induced when the drugs were administered to a small, football-shaped area in the upper brainstem's reticular formation that they dubbed the mesopontine tegmentum anesthesia locus (MPTA).
Estrogen replacement can benefit the cognitive abilities of post-menopausal women, but the effect does not appear to be great, according to a review of some 70 brain neuroimaging studies of estrogen replacement (Y.R. Smith, et al., "Neuroimaging of aging and estrogen effects on central nervous system physiology," Fertility and Sterility, 76:651-9, October 2001).
www.thescientist.com /article/display/12730   (454 words)

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