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Biography of Sibylla Anjou Queen Jerusalem 1160-1190

Paternal Family Tree: Anjou aka Plantagenet

In 1157 [her father] Almaric I King Jerusalem (age 21) and [her mother] Agnes Courtenay Queen Jerusalem (age 21) were married. She by marriage Queen Jerusalem. She the daughter of [her grandfather] Joscelin Courtenay II Count Edessa. He the son of [her grandfather] Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem and [her grandmother] Melisende Queen of Jerusalem (age 52).

In 1160 Sibylla Anjou Queen Jerusalem was born to Almaric I King Jerusalem (age 24) and Agnes Courtenay Queen Jerusalem (age 24).

In 1167 [her father] Almaric I King Jerusalem (age 31) and [her step-mother] Maria Komnenos Queen Jerusalem were married. She by marriage Queen Jerusalem. He the son of [her grandfather] Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem and [her grandmother] Melisende Queen of Jerusalem.

On 11th July 1174 [her father] Almaric I King Jerusalem (age 38) died. His son [her brother] Baldwin (age 13) succeeded IV King Jerusalem.

In August 1177 Baldwin V King Jerusalem was born to William Montferrat and Sibylla Anjou Queen Jerusalem (age 17).

Around 1184 [her mother] Agnes Courtenay Queen Jerusalem (age 48) died.

In August 1186 [her son] Baldwin V King Jerusalem (age 9) died. His mother Sibylla (age 26) succeeded Queen Jerusalem.

In August 1186 Guy I King Jerusalem (age 36) and Sibylla Anjou Queen Jerusalem (age 26) were married. She the daughter of Almaric I King Jerusalem and Agnes Courtenay Queen Jerusalem.

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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

In 1190 Sibylla Anjou Queen Jerusalem (age 30) died. Her half sister [her half-sister] Isabella (age 18) succeeded Queen Jerusalem.

On 18th July 1194 [her former husband] Guy I King Jerusalem (age 44) died at Nicosia. His brother [her former brother-in-law] Almaric (age 49) succeeded II King Jerusalem.

In or before 1177 William Montferrat and Sibylla Anjou Queen Jerusalem were married. She the daughter of Almaric I King Jerusalem and Agnes Courtenay Queen Jerusalem.

Chronicum Anglicanum by Ralph Coggeshall. After these things had been done, King Philip wished to hand over that city [Acre], and the other cities which were to be taken, to the marquis of Montferrat1, and to establish him as king in the land of Jerusalem, since he had married the younger daughter of King Amalric, whose sister, namely the queen, had already died. But King Richard altogether opposed this plan, asserting that it would be more just to restore the kingdom, long since despoiled, to King Guy, rather than to substitute another while he was still living, since it was clear that Guy had not lost the kingdom through cowardice or sloth, but in hard battle, when, because of the number of the enemy and the fewness of his own forces, he had been captured by the Saracens together with the Lord's Cross. This, indeed, is recognised as having been the seed of an inexorable discord between the aforesaid princes. Yet this discord had first sprouted earlier, at the city of Messina in Sicily, when King Richard had taken that city by armed force, and slain many, while King Philip was staying there, on account of the insults and vexations which the army of the king of France was inflicting on his own army.

His itaque gestis, voluit rex Philippus urbem illam, et reliquas quas capturi erant urbes, marchisio de Monteferrato tradere, eumque in terra Hierosolymitana regem constituere, eo quod juniorem filiam regis Amalarii duxisset in uxorem, sorore ejus, regina scilicet, jam defuncta. Cujus voluntati rex Ricardus prorsus obstitit; asserens justius fore regi Guidoni, regno jampridem spoliato, regnum suum restituere, quam alium, illo adhuc vivente, substituere, cum constaret hunc non per ignaviam vel socordiam regnum amisisse, sed in gravi belli certamine, ob inimicorum numerositatem ac sui exercitus paucitatem, simul cum cruce Dominica a Sarracenis fuisse captum. Quod nimirum inexorabilis discordiæ inter prædictos principes seminarium ibidem fuisse dinoscitur. Cum tamen hæc discordia primo apud Messanam Siciliæ civitatem inter eosdem pullulaverat, cum rex Ricardus eamdem urbem armata manu cepit, plurimosque prostravit, rege Philippo in ea commorante, ob convitia et vexationes quæ exercitus regis Francorum exercitui suo inferebat.

Note 1. Conrad of Montferrat King of Jerusalem had married [her half-sister] Isabella following the death of her sister Sibylla Anjou Queen Jerusalem in 1190 and so became, jure uxoris i.e. by right of his wife, King of Jerusalem. King Richard's plan to reinstate Guy had no basis in the laws of succession since Guy was King by right of his wife who had died.

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Royal Ancestors of Sibylla Anjou Queen Jerusalem 1160-1190

Kings Franks: Great x 11 Grand Daughter of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor

Royal Descendants of Sibylla Anjou Queen Jerusalem 1160-1190

Baldwin V King Jerusalem

Ancestors of Sibylla Anjou Queen Jerusalem 1160-1190

Great x 4 Grandfather: Fulcuich Count Mortagne au Perche

Great x 3 Grandfather: Hugh de Perche Count Gâtinais

Great x 4 Grandmother: Melisende Viscountess Châteaudun

Great x 2 Grandfather: Geoffrey "Ferréol" Anjou 2nd Count Gâtinais

Great x 4 Grandfather: Albéric II Count Mâcon

Great x 3 Grandmother: Béatrice de Mâcon Countess Gâtinais

Great x 1 Grandfather: Fulk "Réchin" Anjou 4th Count Anjou

Great x 2 Grandmother: Ermengarde Blanche Ingelger Duchess Burgundy

Great x 3 Grandmother: Hildegarde Sundgau Countess Anjou

GrandFather: Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Reginarids

Great x 3 Grandfather: Aumary Reginarids

Great x 2 Grandfather: Simon Montfort

Great x 3 Grandmother: Bertrade Unknown

Great x 1 Grandmother: Bertrade Montfort Queen Consort France

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Normandy Archbishop of Rouen

Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Normandy 2nd Count Évreux

Great x 4 Grandmother: Herleva Countess Évreux

Great x 2 Grandmother: Agnès of Normandy

Great x 4 Grandfather: Ramon Borrell Count of Barcelona

Great x 3 Grandmother: Adelaide or Godehildis Ramon

Great x 4 Grandmother: Ermesinde of Carcassonne

Father: Almaric I King Jerusalem

Great x 1 Grandfather: Baldwin II King Jerusalem

GrandMother: Melisende Queen of Jerusalem

Sibylla Anjou Queen Jerusalem

Great x 2 Grandfather: Joscelin Courtenay

Great x 1 Grandfather: Joscelin Courtenay I Count Edessa

Great x 3 Grandfather: Guy I of Montlhéry

Great x 2 Grandmother: Elisabeth Montlhéry

GrandFather: Joscelin Courtenay II Count Edessa

Great x 2 Grandfather: Constantine I Armenia

Great x 1 Grandmother: Beatrice Armenia

Mother: Agnes Courtenay Queen Jerusalem