Isabella I of Jerusalem, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Isabella I of Jerusalem

Queen of Jerusalem

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1172

Place of Birth: Nablus, State of Palestine

Date of Death: 05-Apr-1205

Profession: consort

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Isabella I (1172 – 5 April 1205) was Queen regnant of Jerusalem from 1190 to her death.
She was the daughter of Amalric I of Jerusalem and his second wife Maria Comnena.
Her half-brother, Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, engaged her to Humphrey IV of Toron.
Her mother's second husband, Balian of Ibelin, and his stepfather, Raynald of Châtillon, were influential members of the two baronial parties.
The marriage of Isabella and Humphrey was celebrated in Kerak Castle in autumn 1183.
Saladin, the Ayyubid sultan of Egypt and Syria, laid siege to the fortress during the wedding, but Baldwin IV forced him to lift the siege. Baldwin IV, who suffered from lepromatous leprosy, had made his nephew (the only son of his sister, Sybilla by her first husband), Baldwin V, his heir and co-ruler, to prevent Sybilla's second husband, Guy of Lusignan, from mounting the throne.
The High Court of Jerusalem stipulated that a committee of Western European rulers was entitled to choose between Sybilla and Isabella to succeed Baldwin V if he died before reaching the age of majority, but Sybilla and Guy of Lusignan were crowned soon after Baldwin V died in 1185.
Guy's opponents tried to play Isabella and her husband off against him, but Humphrey did homage to the royal couple.