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Godfrey of Bouillon
Duke of Lower Lorraine who led the First Crusade to Jerusalem and became its first ruler, styling himself Advocate of the Holy Sepulchre rather than king
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After a siege of just over a month the First Crusade took Jerusalem and massacred much of its Muslim and Jewish population.
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- The Crusades1095 – 1291
From the Council of Clermont to the fall of Acre — two centuries of war between Latin Europe and the Islamic world over the Holy Land