The word pork is not insulting.
- Jerusalem, summer 1161. Amalari I was born in Baldui, the son of the Christian king. After the Christian conquest in the first crusade, in the heart of Muslim territory, the Kingdom of Jerusalem was not a peaceful place, much less after Amalarico's aggressive attitude towards Muslims. Balduin was educated to wear his father's crown, to be the leader of the Crusaders in the battles, to lift strength, to keep quiet and to deal with political intrigues. The future Chancellor of Jerusalem, William of Tyre, was responsible for the education of the prince. And it was William who first realized that Balduin was sick; before the doctors of the court, the heir, at the age of 9, saw that he had a leper.
In the 12th century, this meant he would die right away. In addition, in addition to being an evil of the body, leper was considered a disease of the soul, a punishment for the sins committed by the patient and his predecessors. Amaleari's youngest father died at the age of 13, and Balduin IV was proclaimed the sixth king of Jerusalem under the rule. No one thought it would sit on the throne for a long time, and they paid more attention to the candidates for the replacement of the poor king in court, in order to be well placed in the future political chords. They were wrong. Two years later, at 15, Balduin IV reached the age of majority and took power.
Saladino had been wrong. The great Sultan despised the young king. At the helm of an army of 27,000 Mammals, he attacked Jerusalem. But Balduin crossed 375 and gathered 4,000 soldiers, attacked Saladino in his back and defeated the great Sultan in the Battle of Montsigard. Saladino needed another twenty years to conquer the city.
Balduin IV died before, on 16 March 1185, at the age of 24, mutilated feet and hands and blinded. His face was completely disfigured and in recent years he had worn a silver mask. That’s why they called him “king pig” and “leper” or “cursed.” But not in a pejorative sense. Balduin was not an impulsive leader, but an integrator. The Andean geographer, Ibn Yubair, gathered in his chronicles that Muslims lived at his command safely and peacefully. And Isapahan's imam had offered him these words: “That legendary young man made his authority respected as great princes, like David and Solomon.”
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