First conferred upon Godfrey of Bouillon, who accepted a crown but not the designation, this was, FTP, what monarchial title over the holiest of Middle Eastern cities?
After the successive rules of Malric and Almaric, this title was disputed for 20 years before it passed into the hands of Guy de Lusignan. The Lusignan family continued to claim it until the late 15th-century, but they would do so from Cyprus. Guy was stripped of it at Hattin in 1187 when he was defeated by Saladin, and it virtually ceased to exist. Its most notable possessors were Baldwin I and II, who consolidated their borders and had relative peace. First conferred upon Godfrey of Bouillon, who accepted a crown but not the designation, this was, FTP, what monarchial title over the holiest of Middle Eastern cities?
After the successive rules of Malric and Almaric, this title was disputed for 20 years before it passed into the hands of Guy de Lusignan.
{king of Jerusalem}