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Monarch of Jerusalem

Crusader state ruler (1099–1291)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The monarch of Jerusalem was the supreme ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, a Crusader state founded in Jerusalem by the Latin Catholic leaders of the First Crusade, when the city was conquered in 1099. Most of them were men, but there were also five queens regnant of Jerusalem, either reigning alone suo jure, or as co-rulers of husbands who reigned as kings of Jerusalem jure uxoris.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Monarch of Jerusalem” is crusader state ruler (1099–1291). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Monarch, Jerusalem and Crusader, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1099—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Monarch, Jerusalem and Crusader is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Monarch of Jerusalem” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.