“QUAESTIONES MEDII AEVI NOVAE” 28 (2023), PP. 71-89 ISSN: 1427-4418 E-ISSN: 2720-5614 DOI: 10.57632/QMAN.2023.28.04 tomasz PełecH THE ROYAL CASTLE IN WARSAW - MUSEUM TPELECH@ZAMEK-KROLEWSKI.PL HTTPS://ORCID.ORG/0000-0002-3722-568X THE KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM AND EGYPT IN THE EARLY 12 TH CENTURY. THE CASE OF ASIA AND BABYLON IN THE TITLE OF BALDWIN OF BOULOGNE * Fulcher of Chartres (1058/59-1127), 1 a chaplain of Baldwin of Bou- logne, the first Latin king of Jerusalem (1100-1118), in his work Historia Hierosolymitana, reflecting on the strategic situation of Christians in Palestine after the events of the First Crusade, noted: “Truly it is manifest to all that it was a wonderful miracle that we lived among so many thousands of thousands and as their conquerors made some of them our tributaries and ruined others by plundering them and making them captives”. 2 Thus, the Crusaders were conquerors, on the one hand * The work was supported by the National Science Centre, Poland, under research project no. UMO-2023/07/X/HS3/00377. I am very grateful to Susan B. Edgington for her friendly com- ments and remarks. 1 More about Fulcher of Chartres see. V. Epp, Fulcher von Chartres: Studien zur Geschichtss- chreibung des ersten Kreuzzuges, Düsseldorf 1990; eadem, Miles und militia bei Fulcher von Chartres und seinen Bearbeitern, in: ‘Militia Christi’ e Crociata nei secoli XI-XIII, in: Atti della undecima Setti- mana internazionale di studio, Mendola, 28 agosto-1 settembre 1989, Milan 1992, pp. 769-784; T. Pełech, Kształtowanie wizerunku Baldwina I, króla Jerozolimy. Fulcher z Chartres i partie wierszowane w opisach zdobycia nadmorskich miast Lewantu, in: Bałkany – Bizancjum – Bliski Wschód. Studia z dziejów i kultu- ry wieków średnich, ed. A. Paroń, Wrocław 2022 (= VI Kongres Mediewistów Polskich 2), pp. 39-56; idem, Un réemploi de Flavius Josèphe par Foucher de Chartres: l’or arraché aux cadavres, “Cahiers de civilisation médiévale” 259 (2022), pp. 259-274. 2 Fulcher of Chartres, A History of the Expedition to Jerusalem, 1095-1127, transl. F.R. Ryan of St. Joseph, ed. H. Fink, New York 1969 (repr. 1973) [= FC (Ryan&Fink)], p. 150; Fulcheri Car- notensis Historia Hierosolymitana (1095–1127), ed. H. Hagenmeyer, Heidelberg 1913 [= FC], II, VI, COPYRIGHT BY CENTER OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION (2023)