Baldwin

or BALDWyN, WILLIAM, a school- divine, printer, poet, and comedian, who tho Reformation, but is best known as completed, in conjunction with Ferrers, The for Magistrates, the remarkable poem that began. He died in 1564. Baldwin I., King of Jerusalem, born in 1058, his brothers, Eustace and Godfrey of to the Holy Land. He became Baron of and protector of the Holy Sepulchre, in 1100 a umed the style of king. His reign spent in continual warfare with Turks, Arabs, and Saracens. He took Acre, Sidon, dnd reduced the whole Syrian coast. He invaded Egypt, contracted a disease, and reto Jerusalem to die in 1118. He was on Mount Calvary. BALDWIN II, a cousin of the preceding, him as titular king. He defeated the in 1120, but in 1124 was captured, and recovered his liberty by ceding Tyre. The of Knights Templars was founded in his In 113] he abdicated in favour of his son- Foulques of Anjou, whose son came to the a 1143 as Baldwin III., and died at Tripoli Baldwin, BaLpwyy, or BAuDpouIN, the name cight Counts of Flanders, who played important 5 parts founded of Charles to dominions. French Flanders, became his Conqueror, land, Margaret, Flanders His son In aside of posed succeeded, tenders Venetian emperor The Joannices nople next his 1228, power bee walls the 1261, educated tantism whose sion in Mary's Continent, at number plays. orum if Old castle lying three Spanish Nao. farther separates mere Balearic Tslands. in European history between 837 and 1195, and a short-lived dynasty at Constantinople. BALDWIN I., BRAS DE FER (837-877), the founder the family, married by force Judith, daughter of the Bald, who, after a defeat, was reconciled his son-in-law, and helped to consolidate his BALDWIN III. (988-1034) annexed a slice of territory, and first summoned the states of BALDWIN IV. further encroached on France, a feudatory of the German Empire, gave daughter Matilda in marriage to William the and took part in the invasion of Engdying in 1067. BALDWIN VIII., Count of Hainault, marrying acquired through her the county of in 1194, and reunited the two counties. daughter married Philip August us of France. BALDWIN I., Emperor of Constantinople, was the of the foregoing, whom he succeeded in 11985. 1200 he joined the fourth Crusade, but turned on his way to liberate Isaac Angelus, Emperor Constantinople, from his brother who had deand imprisoned him. In this the Crusaders but on the death of Isaac other prearose, and ultimately Baldwin, with his allies, took the city, and he was elected with dominions, however, much curtailed.