Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem
In Our Time: History
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Women's Role in Politics
There's no evidence that people then educate her for the job. But i would argue, given what else we know about women's role in politics, that it's entirely conceivable that actually, not just she, but all her sisters would have been educated. Women needed to know how politics worked. They could not lead an army into and they needed a man for thatat that time. And they went looking for one. The nobility thought folk the fifth of anjou was a great candidate. He'd already been out to the holy land in the first place. Well, he'd kept knights there for a hundred nights, there in the service on crus for a year. So they knew he
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