By Bernard Hamilton
The reign of King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (1174–85) has frequently been obvious as a interval of decline while, as a result of the king's disease, strength got here to be held through improper males who made the inaccurate coverage judgements. significantly, they missed the recommendation of Raymond of Tripoli and attacked Saladin, who was once ready to maintain peace with the Franks whereas uniting the Islamic close to east lower than his rule. This booklet demanding situations that view, arguing that peace with Saladin was once no longer a workable alternative for the Franks; that the younger king, regardless of being affected by lepromatous leprosy (the most dangerous type of the illness) was once a good conflict chief who strove with a few luck to frustrate Saladin's imperial targets; that Baldwin needed to stay king so one can carry factions in payment; yet that the society over which he presided was once, opposite to what's usually stated, full of life and self-confident.
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I have tried to examine more fully Baldwin IV's own role in the events of his reign. Earlier writers have portrayed him as a brave warrior, but also as a man who, because of his poor health, had little power but was manipulated by court factions. My own conclusion, which the reader must judge, is that the leper king had a more dynamic role in the affairs of the Latin East. C. Smail, `The predicaments of Guy of Lusignan, 1183 ±87', in Outremer, pp. Z. Kedar, `The Patriarch Eraclius', in Outremer, pp.
La Chronique attribueÂe au ConneÂtable Smbat, DRHC 13 (Paris, 1980), pp. 9 ±36. M. Brand, The Deeds of John and Manuel Comnenus (New York, 1976). Sources for Baldwin IV's reign 21 information about deteriorating Latin±Byzantine relations after the death of Manuel in 1180. R. Melville Jones. 1150±1213) wrote a history which covers the period from 1118±1206, but which is very hostile to the West because it was completed after the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade: there is a good modern edition of this work by Jan-Louis van Dieten and an English translation by Harry Magoulias.
I have not found material in either of these works relevant to the present study. Morgan, Chronicle, pp. W. Edbury, `The Lyons Eracles and the Old French Continuations of William of Tyre', in Montjoie, pp. 139 ± 53 at pp. 139 ± 40. Morgan, Chronicle, pp. R. ), La continuation de Guillaume de Tyr (1184 ± 1197), DRHC 14 (Paris, 1982), pp. 7 ±16. Sources for Baldwin IV's reign 11 This view was challenged in 1982 by John Gillingham, who argued that Ernoul's contribution to the chronicle that bears his name ended in 1187 and that later materials were `reworkings of an anecdotal text compiled in the 1220s'.