Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem
In Our Time: History
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The Four Daughters of a Family of Three Daughters
When she is only about five or six, baldwin is actually taken prisoner. Heis captured, and as part of the terms of his release, a group of noble children are given as hostages in his place. And one of them includes iveta, which was fairly normal at the time. When she comes back er, she she's the only one of the three who doesn't get married. But falt kind of neutralizes her quite effectively by bringing over a new prince of antioch and marrying him off to her daughter.
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