This is the first biography in any language of Baldwin of Bourcq. Baldwin of Bourcq will appeal to students, teachers and researchers in Medieval History, especially Crusade Studies and Military History.

Alan V. Murray is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds. He is the author of The Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Dynastic History, 1099-1125 (2000) and The Franks in Outremer: Studies in the Latin Principalities of Syria and Palestine, 1099-1187 (2015), as well as over 60 articles on the crusades and the Latin settlements in Outremer.

Introduction Part I: Crusader (1096-1100) 1. Origins and Ancestry 2. The First Crusade Part II: Count of Edessa (1100-1118) 3. The Franks on the Euphrates 4. From Expansion to Defeat (1100-1108) 5. Recovery and Consolidation (1108-1118) Part III: King of Jerusalem (1118-1131) 6. The Kingdom of Jerusalem and Its Enemies 7. From Accession to Coronation (1118-1119) 8. Between Jerusalem and Antioch (1120-1123) 9. The Years of Crisis (1123-1124) 10. Liberty and Restoration (1125-1126) 11. New Horizons (1127-1129) 12. Final Conflicts (1129-1131) Conclusions