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Godfrey of Bouillon (statue first crusade)Brussels,Belgium
This is a statue of Godfrey od Bouillon,who became king of Jeruzalem,first crusade (see more info on wikipedia)
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ROYAL SQUARE (French; Royal Square) or Koningsplein (Dutch; King's Square) is a historic neoclassical square in the Royal Quarter of Brussels, Belgium. Built between 1775 and 1782 as part of an urban project including Brussels' Park, it is rectangular and symmetrical in shape and is flanked by some of the main museums in the city. At This place, a few compatriots Kept the Dutchmen at arm's lenght in 1830. Leopold the First King of Belgium was invested there on July 21 1831. Since august 1848, has been standing Godefroid de Bouillon, a national hero, by Simonis
Since the mid-19th century, an equestrian statue of Godfrey of Bouillon has stood in the centre of the Royal Square in Brussels, Belgium. The statue was made by Eugène Simonis, and inaugurated on August 24, 1848. Godfrey is a key figure in the pseudohistorical theories put forth in the books The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail and The Da Vinci Code.
ROYAL PARC Lies on the site of the gardens of the former Palace of Coudenberg, which had been used since the Middle Ages as a hunting ground by the Dukes of Brabant. It was designed and laid out between 1776 and 1783 in a neoclassical style by the French architect Gilles-Barnabé Guimard and the Austrian landscape architect Joachim Zinner. In 1793, French revolutionary troops destroyed the sculptures and overthrew the busts of the Roman emperors which adorned the park. During the Belgian Revolution, which led to the separation of the Southern Netherlands, the park served as a refuge for the army of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. Since the 19th century, the park has been surrounded by a double row of lime trees and a monumental fence designed by Tilman-François Suys. In the 20th century, the park was fitted with Art Deco lamp posts. In the 1930s, a bunker was built underneath it, connected by tunnels to the House of Parliament. The park was most recently renovated between 2000 and 2002
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The First Crusade - Godfrey of Bouillon
Godfrey of Bouillon (c. 1060 -- 18 July 1100) was a medieval Frankish knight who was one of the leaders of the First Crusade from 1096 until his death. He was the Lord of Bouillon, from which he took his byname, from 1076 and the Duke of Lower Lorraine from 1087. After the successful siege of Jerusalem in 1099, Godfrey became the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, although he refused the title King; as he believed that the true King of Jerusalem was Christ.
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(Koekelberg)Godfrey of Bouillon (first crusade)
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The Life And Death of Godfrey of Bouillon
Godfrey of Bouillon (18 September 1060 – 18 July 1100) was a medieval Frankish knight who was one of the leaders of the First Crusade from 1096 until his death. He was the Lord of Bouillon, from which he took his byname, from 1076 and the Duke of Lower Lorraine from 1087. After the successful siege of Jerusalem in 1099, Godfrey became the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, although he refused the title King; as he believed that the true King of Jerusalem was Christ; preferring the title of Advocate of the Holy Sepulchre.
Godfrey of Bouillon was born around 1060 as the second son of Eustace II Count of Boulogne and Ida, daughter of Godfrey, Duke of Lower Lorraine and his wife, ). His birthplace was probably Boulogne-sur-Mer, although one 13th-century chronicler cites Baisy, a town in Lower Lorraine (Belgium). As second son, he had fewer opportunities than his older brother and seemed destined to become just one more minor knight in service to a rich landed nobleman. However, his uncle on his mother's side, Godfrey the Hunchback, Duke of Lower Lorraine, died childless and named his nephew, Godfrey of Bouillon, as his heir and next in line to his duchy of Lower Lorraine. This duchy was an important one at the time, serving as a buffer between the kingdom of France and the German lands.
In fact, Lower Lorraine was so important to the German kingdom and the Holy Roman Empire that Henry IV, the German king and future emperor (ruled 1084–1105), decided in 1076 that he would place it in the hands of his own son and give Godfrey only Bouillon and the Margraviate of Antwerp as a test of Godfrey's abilities and loyalty. Godfrey served Henry IV loyally, supporting him even when Pope Gregory VII was battling the German king in the Investiture Controversy. Godfrey fought alongside Henry and his forces against the rival forces of Rudolf of Swabia and also took part in battles in Italy when Henry IV actually took Rome away from the pope.
At the same time, Godfrey was struggling to maintain control over the lands that Henry IV had not taken away from him, as his uncle's widow, Matilda of Tuscany, was claiming them. Another enemy outside the family also tried to take away other bits of his land, and Godfrey's brothers, Eustace and Baldwin, both came to his aid. Following long struggles, and after proving that he was a loyal subject to Henry IV, Godfrey finally won back his duchy of Lower Lorraine in 1087. Still, Godfrey would never have had much power in the German kingdom or in Europe if it had not been for the coming of the Crusades.
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In 1095 Urban II,the new Pope, called for a Crusade to liberate Jerusalem from Muslim forces and also to aid the Byzantine Empire which was under Muslim attack. Godfrey took out loans on most of his lands, or sold them, to the bishop of Liège and the bishop of Verdun. With this money he gathered thousands of knights to fight in the Holy Land. In this he was joined by his older brother, Eustace, and his younger brother, Baldwin, who had no lands in Europe. He was not the only major nobleman to gather such an army. Raymond of Saint-Gilles, also known as Raymond of Toulouse, created the largest army. At age fifty-five Raymond was also the oldest and perhaps the best known of the Crusader nobles. Because of his age and fame, Raymond expected to be the leader of the entire First Crusade. Adhemar, the papal legate and bishop of Le Puy, travelled with him. There was also the fiery Bohemond, a Norman knight from southern Italy, and a fourth group under Robert II, Count of Flandria.
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After the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099, the Kingdom of Jerusalem had barely begun to assume its eventual shape. Godfrey of Bouillon ruled, in the words of Christopher Tyerman, “a narrow stretch of land in Judea and Samaria running along the west bank of the river Jordan from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea, including Tiberias, Nablus, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Hebron, which linked to the sea by a neck of territory surrounding the road down from the Holy City to the port of Jaffa” (Tyerman, p. 179). Godfrey’s army included some 300 knights and 2,000 infantry. Bohemond’s nephew Tancred, as Prince of Galilee, was one of his most important vassals. Tancred had captured Galilee with a meager band of knights in the summer of 1099. In the chaotic political conditions of rural Palestine, Godfrey was able to effectively control his nascent kingdom with small, tight-knit bands of troops. However, Godfrey’s Jerusalem was not fully self-sufficient, relying on aid from pilgrim knights and from the Italian naval powers.
So just after the Crusader conquest of Jerusalem, Godfrey was in the position of needing to consolidate and expand the territory he held. However, as I mentioned earlier, Godfrey was short of manpower, so this was quite a challenge.
Godfrey of Bouillon (French: Godefroy de Bouillon, German: Gottfried von Bouillon, Latin: Godefridus Bullionensis; 18 September 1060 – 18 July 1100) was a Frankish knight, and one of the leaders of the First Crusade from 1096 until its conclusion in 1099. He was the Lord of Bouillon, from which he took his byname, from 1076 and the Duke of Lower Lorraine from 1087. After the successful siege of Jerusalem in 1099, Godfrey became the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. He refused the title of King, however, as he believed that the true King of Jerusalem was Christ, preferring the title of Advocate (i.e. protector or defender) of the Holy Sepulchre (Latin: Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri). He is also known as the Baron of the Holy Sepulchre and the Crusader King.
The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem was a crusader state established in the Southern Levant by Godfrey of Bouillon in 1099 after the First Crusade. The kingdom lasted nearly two hundred years, from 1099 until 1291 when the last remaining possession, Acre, was destroyed by the Mamluks, but its history is divided into two distinct periods. The sometimes so-called First Kingdom of Jerusalem lasted from 1099 to 1187, when it was almost entirely overrun by Saladin. After the subsequent Third Crusade, the kingdom was re-established in Acre in 1192, and lasted until that city's destruction in 1291, except for a brief two decades which Frederick II of Hohenstaufen reclaimed Jerusalem back into Christian hands after the Sixth Crusade. This second kingdom is sometimes called the Second Kingdom of Jerusalem or the Kingdom of Acre, after its new capital.
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On 18 February 2017, citizen group BruxselAIR organised a wide-scale event to protest against air pollution in the Belgian capital. About 400 participants placed air pollution masks on more than a hundred iconic statues in Brussels.They later gathered by the statue of Godefroy de Bouillon and staged a 'mannequin challenge' to represent the inability of Belgian decision makers to adequately tackle this crucial issue.
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Godfrey of Bouillon (French: Godefroy de Bouillon, German: Gottfried von Bouillon, Latin: Godefridus Bullionensis; 18 September 1060 – 18 July 1100) was a Frankish knight, and one of the leaders of the First Crusade from 1096 until its conclusion in 1099. He was the Lord of Bouillon, from which he took his byname, from 1076 and the Duke of Lower Lorraine from 1087. After the successful siege of Jerusalem in 1099, Godfrey became the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. He refused the title of King, however, as he believed that the true King of Jerusalem was Christ, preferring the title of Advocate (i.e. protector or defender) of the Holy Sepulchre (Latin: Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri). He is also known as the Baron of the Holy Sepulchre and the Crusader King.
Godfrey of Bouillon - Who was He?
If you watched my series of videos on the First Crusade, you’ll know that Godfrey of Bouillon was one of the important leaders of that Crusade. He was the second eldest son of Eustace II of Boulogne, a companion of William the Conqueror in the conquest of England, and Ida of Lorraine. Through his maternal uncle Godfrey the Hunchback, he inherited the Duchy of Lorraine in 1087. In 1096 Godfrey committed himself to the cause of Pope Urban II and set out on Crusade, leading an army of Lorrainers, Walloons, and Germans. William of Tyre, who lived in the late twelfth century and therefore never knew Godfrey, provides us with a fairly well-known description of Godfrey (read William of Tyre, p. 387).
There is certainly a great deal of idealism in William’s description. By the time of William of Tyre’s life in the late twelfth century, Godfrey was one of the legendary founding figures of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, and much myth surrounded him. However, Willliam’s physical description is probably fairly accurate, while his belief that Godfrey was an excellent ruler, was shared by Godfrey’s own contemporaries.
Steven Runciman, who is now acknowledged by most historians to be unreliable, and whose’ extreme bias against the Crusaders colored all of his writing, described Godfrey as a “weak and foolish man” (Runciman, p. 3). But this tells us more about Runciman’s own bias than anything. Renowned historian Regine Pernoud disagrees with Runciman, stating (Pernoud, p. 83-84).
The First Crusade (1095–1099) was the first of a number of crusades that attempted to capture the Holy Land, called on by Pope Urban II in 1095. It started as a widespread pilgrimage of western Christendom and ended as a military expedition by Roman Catholic Europe to regain the Holy Land taken in the Muslim conquests of the Levant (632–661), ultimately resulting in the capture of Jerusalem in 1099.
It was launched on 27 November 1095 by Pope Urban II with the primary goal of responding to an appeal from Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, requested that western aid to help repel the invading Seljuk Turks from Anatolia. An additional goal soon became the principal objective—the Christian reconquest of the sacred city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land and the freeing of the Eastern Christians from Muslim rule.
During the crusades, nobility, knights, peasants and serfs from many regions of Western Europe travelled over land and by sea, first to Constantinople and then on towards Jerusalem. The Crusaders arrived at Jerusalem, launched an assault on the city, and captured it in July 1099, massacring many of the city's Muslim and Jewish inhabitants. They also established the crusader states of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the County of Tripoli, the Principality of Antioch, and the County of Edessa.
It was the first major step towards reopening international trade in the West since the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Due to the First Crusade being largely concerned with Jerusalem, a city which had not been under Christian dominion for 461 years, and that the crusader army, on seizure of lands, had refused to honor a brokered promise before the seizure to return gained lands to the control of the Byzantine Empire, the status of the First Crusade as defensive or aggressive in nature remains unanswered and controversial.
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