Talk:Godfrey of Bouillon

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A question

It is said that Godfrey found a "Order of Sion" in Holy Land.

Is it true ?

User:Siyac 11:17, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

No, see Priory of Sion. Adam Bishop 15:38, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Another question: is there any source proving his birthplace?

Godfrey's Conquests

"In 1100 Godfrey was able to impose his authority over Acre, Ascalon, Arsuf, Jaffa, and Caesarea. "

I have a source that says that in 1101 Baldwin I conquered Arsuf, Caesarea, in April, May and May respectively, and Acre in May 1004.

This source would be Fulcher of Chartres, Historia Hierosolymitana, II. viii. 1-4 [Ryan, pp. 151-2]

What is the truth of this?

That should be clarified I guess...those cities were not actually conquered until Baldwin I's reign, but they sort of paid tribute to Jerusalem when Godfrey was still alive (Fatimid Egypt had basically abandonded them). Adam Bishop 20:58, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Personal Life

Is anything known about his personal life? Was he ever married and did he have any children?

Golden Triangle

Some IP repeatedly posts this into the article under trivia:

"His descendance has strong footholds in the Golden Triangle limited by the cities of Bruxelles, Charleroi and Liege. Many settled in Lodelinsart, a small city near Charleroi. Genetic resemblance is also found in central Limousin, France, in a small town called Belzannes. This emigration may have been caused by the troubled history of Belgium ever since it seceded from the French Kingdom. Waves of emigration occurred especially after the two World Wars."

What does post-world war emigration has to do with Godfrey? What is descendance supposed to mean, when Godfrey had no offspring? How far is the Golden Triangle in Belgium? (If it is then edit the disambig page I linked to). Str1977 ^{(smile back)} 20:08, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

More Grail controversy

In the last paragraph is the phase "According to the controversial book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, which provided much of the basis for The DaVinci Code." I thought it was proven in court that DaVinci Code did not take its basis from the earlier book.

Not quite, though maybe I could have worded that better (how about "provided much of the background for The DaVinci Code"?). The ruling was a little narrower than that. The court basically ruled that the heart of the book was the fictional adventure of the characters, and the background material was not enough of the book that they could claim copyright infringement, and also that the claims about the Priory of Sion and Mary Magdalen have been published elsewhere, though HBHG is the most prominent publication. Brown has acknowledged that the book was one of the sources. There's more information about the whole Priory claim in that article. Fan1967 13:44, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I reworded the reference to "one of the sources for the background of The DaVinci Code," which I think is cleaner. Fan1967 18:19, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Gold bullion

is there any credence given to the assertion that the term bullion, as in Gold bullion, derives from his name? __meco (talk) 04:07, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No...why would it? One of the Latin words for bullion and Bouillon happen to be the same (bullio), but if they are related, it's either a coincidence, or the name of the town is derived from the word. Nothing to do with Godfrey specifically. Adam Bishop (talk) 08:59, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Was killing a common practise?

This is my first post here so apologies for any mistakes.

"Once inside, the Crusaders killed many of the city's inhabitants; at the time, it was common practice with any captured city." Fist of all this sentence needs a reference in my opinion. Secondly, it gives the impression that it was also acceptable morally. Why should one justify such an act by saying it was common no something out of normal at that time. We have in Saladin an example that it really want a common practis everywhere. Zaigham16 (talk) 00:05, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kingdom of Heaven

I have removed the undocumented supposed connection with the Kingdom of Heaven character, Godfrey of Ibelin. Other than the name, the two have nothing in common - date, place of origin, manner of death, social position, etc. Agricolae (talk) 04:08, 22 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]