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King Amalric
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Amalric of Jerusalem.
Byzantine alliance
King Amalric returned to his kingdom on 21 August 1167. His envoys to Emperor Manuel arrived with his new bride, the emperor's grandniece Maria Komnene. On 29 August, in the Cathedral of Tyre, Patriarch Amalric celebrated the king's second marriage. The new queen received Nablus as her dower. The same year, Queen Theodora, niece of Emperor Manuel and widow of Amalric's brother, eloped with the emperor's cousin Andronikos. The lovers fled to Damascus, where they were received by Nur ad-Din. The scandalous conduct of his kin enraged the emperor, but Amalric was glad to take Acre, his sister-in-law's rich dower, back into the royal domain; Beirut also reverted to Amalric.