Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem
In Our Time: History
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Is It Unusual That You Have a Coronation There?
There were quite a few people who married into established christian families where there are menian or greek orthodox they brought with them impressive dowries. Morphia's dowry was 50 thousand gold peasants, which then helped the crusaders to establish themselves as they were going through this on growing process of warfare. So the money that they was important, but the links to the established nobility and potential christian allies were also really important. What united the christians, r at the crusader christians, and what divided them? There is a lot of rivalry between the franks inhi during this process of settlement here. People are seeking to establish their own territories and develop themselves and
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