Baldwin of Ibelin (born c. 1245; died 1286/7) was a nobleman of the

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. A member of the

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, he was a son of

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, and a brother of Queen

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. He was thus the maternal uncle of King

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, whom he served as

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.Peter W. Edbury, "Redating the Death of King Henry I of Cyprus?", in Michel Balard,

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and

Jonathan Riley-Smith Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith (27 June 1938 – 13 September 2016) was a historian of the Crusades, and, between 1994 and 2005, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge. He was a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Ea ...

(eds.), ''Dei gesta per Francos: Études sur les croisades dédiées à Jean Richard / Crusade Studies in Honour of Jean Richard'' (Ashgate, 2001), pp. 339–348. In 1277, Nicholas Aleman,

lord of Caesarea The Kingdom of Jerusalem, one of the Crusader states that was created in 1099, was divided into a number of smaller Manorialism, seigneuries. According to the 13th-century jurist John of Ibelin (jurist), John of Ibelin, the four highest crown va ...

, murdered Baldwin's brother John in a feud. In revenge, Baldwin, by then already constable, killed Nicholas, who happened to be married to a distant cousin,

, daughter of

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.John L. Lamonte, "The Lords of Caesarea in the Period of the Crusades", ''Speculum'' 22, 2 (1947), p. 159. On 24 June 1286, the teen-aged Henry II sailed to claim the

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. The fleet and Henry's knights were under the command of Baldwin.George Hill
''A History of Cyprus, Volume II: The Frankish Period, 1192–1432''
(Cambridge University Press, 2010

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, pp. 180 and 181n. Henry was crowned as King of Jerusalem at Tyre in August and then moved on to

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. He returned to Cyprus in November, but Baldwin stayed behind as the royal bailiff. He was dead by January 1287, when Henry II endowed masses for his soul in the Cathedral of the Holy Wisdom, Nicosia.Peter W. Edbury, ''The Kingdom of Cyprus and the Crusades, 1191–1374'' (Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 97–98 and 184n.

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