"Isabella of Jerusalem" redirects here. For the later queen of this name, see Isabella II of Jerusalem.
Isabella I
Marriage of Isabella I (on the right) and Conrad of Montferrat
Queen of Jerusalem
Reign
1190/1192 – 5 April 1205
Coronation
January 1198 at Acre
Predecessor
Sibylla and Guy
Successor
Maria
Co-rulers
Conrad I (1190–1192)
Henry I (1192–1197)
Aimery (1198–1205)
Born
1172 Nablus, Kingdom of Jerusalem
Died
5 April 1205 (aged 32–33) Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem
Spouses
Humphrey IV of Toron
(m. 1183; ann. 1190)
Conrad of Montferrat
(m. 1190; died 1192)
Henry II of Champagne
(m. 1192; died 1197)
Aimery of Cyprus
(m. 1198; died 1205)
Issue more...
Maria, Queen of Jerusalem
Alice, Queen of Cyprus
Philippa, Lady of Ramerupt
Sibylla, Queen of Armenia
Melisende, Princess of Antioch
House
Anjou
Father
Amalric I of Jerusalem
Mother
Maria Comnena
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Isabella I (1172 – 5 April 1205) was reigning Queen of Jerusalem from 1190 to her death in 1205. She was the daughter of Amalric I of Jerusalem and his second wife Maria Comnena, a Byzantine princess. Her half-brother, Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, engaged her to Humphrey IV of Toron. Her mother's second husband, Balian of Ibelin, and his stepfather, Raynald of Châtillon, were influential members of the two baronial parties. The marriage of Isabella and Humphrey was celebrated in Kerak Castle in autumn 1183. Saladin, the Ayyubid sultan of Egypt and Syria, laid siege to the fortress during the wedding, but Baldwin IV forced him to lift the siege.
Baldwin IV, who suffered from lepromatous leprosy, had made his nephew (the only son of his sister, Sibylla by her first husband), Baldwin V, his heir and co-ruler, to prevent Sibylla's second husband, Guy of Lusignan, from mounting the throne. The High Court of Jerusalem stipulated that a committee of Western European rulers was entitled to choose between Sibylla and Isabella to succeed Baldwin V if he died before reaching the age of majority, but Sibylla and Guy of Lusignan were crowned soon after Baldwin V died in 1185. Guy's opponents tried to play Isabella and her husband off against him, but Humphrey did homage to the royal couple.
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