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Acre is in Middle East.
On 18th July 1100 Godfrey Flanders Lord Bouillon (age 39) was killed at Acre [Map]. The Arab chronicler Ibn al-Qalanisi reported "while he was besieging the city of Acre, Godfrey, the ruler of Jerusalem, was struck by an arrow, which killed him". Other reports suggest he may have contracted an illness, or may have been poisoned.
Around 1130 William IV Count of Nevers was born to William III Count Nevers Count Auxerre and Tonnere (age 23) at Acre [Map].
In October 1190 Henry of Bar I Count of Bar (age 32) died at Acre [Map]. His brother Theobald (age 30) succeeded I Count Bar.
On 19th November 1190 Archbishop Baldwin of Forde (age 65) died in Acre [Map].
In 1191 Robert "Le Roux" V Lord of Béthune died at Acre [Map].
Around 1191 Nigel Mowbray 5th Baron Thirsk (age 45) was killed in Acre [Map]. His son William (age 18) succeeded 6th Baron Thirsk.
In 1191 Stephen Blois I Count Sancerre (age 58) died at Acre [Map].
On 20th January 1191 Conrad Hohenstaufen Count Palatine of the Rhine (age 23) died at Acre [Map].
On 8th June 1191 King Richard "Lionheart" I of England (age 33) landed at Acre [Map].
On 2nd November 1191 Gerard Count Loon was killed in Acre [Map]. His son Louis succeeded II Count Loon.
On 18th September 1197 Margaret Capet (age 40) died at Acre [Map].
In 1227 Louis Brienne Viscount Beaumont was born to John de Brienne I King Jerusalem (age 57) and Beregaria Ivrea (age 23) at Acre [Map]. He a great x 2 grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.
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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.
On 8th October 1240 Richard of Cornwall 1st Earl Cornwall (age 31) landed at Acre [Map].
On 8th October 1240 William Longespée (age 32) landed at Acre [Map].
On 8th May 1250 King Louis IX of France (age 36) and his two brothers Alphonse Capet Count Poitou II Count Toulose (age 29) and King Charles Capet of Sicily (age 23) with 12,000 fellow prisoners were allowed to leave for Acre [Map] after paying a ransom of 400,000 dinars.
On 4th August 1266 Odo Burgundy (age 36) died at Acre [Map]. His daughter Yolande (age 19) succeeded II Countess Nevers.
Before 9th May 1271 King Edward I of England (age 31) and Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (age 30) sailed from Palermo [Map] and travelled to Acre [Map] arriving on 9th May 1271. They were later joined by Edmund "Crouchback" Plantagenet 1st Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Lancaster (age 26), John "The Red" Capet I Duke Brittany (age 53) and Teobaldo Visconti Archdeacon of Liège (age 41) (who would become Pope a month later).
In April 1272 Joan of Acre Countess Gloucester and Hertford was born to King Edward I of England (age 32) and Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (age 31) at Acre [Map].
On 22nd September 1272 King Edward I of England (age 33) and Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (age 31) left Acre [Map] for Sicily [Map] where he spent the winter convalescing. Whilst there he learned of the death of his father King Henry III of England (age 64), his uncle Richard of Cornwall 1st Earl Cornwall and his eldest son John Plantagenet.