The Three Wives of Baldwin I
Dr Susan Edgington
Susan B. Edgington is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. She has published a number of editions and translations relating to the First Crusade and the early years of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, and a biography of Baldwin I (Routledge, 2019).
About the event
Baldwin of Boulogne was successively a First Crusader, the first Latin Count of Edessa, and king of Jerusalem (1100–1118). He married three times: as crusader, as count, and then as king. His wives were given very little attention in contemporary chronicles and so this is an attempt to restore to them their own biographies.