King Baldwin IV

Baldwin was born in 1161 to King Amalric I of Jerusalem and Agnes of Courtenay. Agnes was not queen because the Haute Cour feared that if Agnes was queen consort, she would take power through her ex-husband Amalric. So the Haute Cour gave him the choice between being with Agnes and not being king, or being king but annulling his marriage to Agnes. Amalric wanted to refuse, but when he saw that he couldn't, he divorced his wife and put aside the legitimacy of his two children he had with her: Sibylla who was born in 1160, and Baldwin (the future Baldwin IV).

Amalric raised his son well and loved him, and also disciplined him to be a fair king, Amalric sought alliances with the Byzantine Empire, so he looked for a wife and was given Maria Comnena, niece of the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I, and they married. and Baldwin only saw his mother at public events

Amalric had a daughter with Maria: Isabella. He sent Sibylla, the daughter of his first wife, to a convent with her Great Aunt Loveta, raised her children and sent Baldwin away so that William of Tyre would be his tutor (Bishop of Tyre).

One day William saw how the children and the prince were playing at pinching each other, and when they pinched him, he didn't feel any pain and at first he suspected that he had an incurable disease but he didn't jump to any conclusions, with time he realized that it was leprosy, he informed the king and he cried a lot when he learned that the prince had leprosy.

Mary saw Amalric's children with his first wife as rivals against her own, since she wanted the throne for her children and not for them, and she despised and hated Baldwin.

Amalric died and Baldwin was crowned four days later at the age of 13, at first power was given to Tiberias (Raymond III of Tripoli, Count of Tripoli) and Raymond ruled until Baldwin came of age on 15 July 1176 and Baldwin reigned with justice and cunning and defended the pilgrims.

Baldwin had a war at the age of 16, against Sultan Salhaddin Ayyubie, and the young king won.