Baldwin II of Jerusalem

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/1868

count of Edessa, later king of Jerusalem

Names

  • Arabic: بردويل الملك = Burdawīl al-Malik 1
  • Syriac: ܒܓܕܘܝܢ = BGDWYΝ 2

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian2-3 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 387 [Arabic].
  • 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 596 [Syriac].
    • Baudoin II (du Bourg): J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 195 [French].
  • 3Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 596 [Syriac].
    • Baudoin II (du Bourg): J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 183 ?, 188, 195, 196, 197, 201, 205, 210, 223, 236, 281 [French].
    • Baldwin II of Bourg: Michael the Syrian, The Chronicle of Michael the Great (The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex): Books XV–XXI From the Year 1050 to 1195 AD, ed. Amir Harrak (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2019), 90 n.287, 100, 108, 120 & nn.364, 367, 122 & 371, 136 n.431, 146, 170, 172, 214, 234, 236 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Baldwin II of Jerusalem” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/1868.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Jessica Mutter: matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
  • Laurel Kenner: incorporated Harrak's pages
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