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During the height of the kingdom in the mid-12th century there was a royal family and a relatively clear line of succession. The kingship of Jerusalem was partially elected and partially hereditary. His brother Baldwin I was the first to use the title king and the first to be crowned king in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem itself.

Advocatus was a title with which Godfrey was already familiar as the term was much used in the lands where the Crusaders originated it referred to a layman who protected and administered Church estates. This was probably in response to the opinion that only Christ could wear a crown in Jerusalem.

He took the title Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri, that is Advocate or Defender of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. In 1099 Godfrey of Bouillon was elected as the first Frankish ruler of Jerusalem and was inaugurated in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. The Kingdom of Jerusalem had its origins in the First Crusade, when proposals to govern the city as an ecclesiastical state were rejected.

1.4 Houses of Aleramici and Brienne (1205–1228).

The Kingdom of Jerusalem was finally dissolved with the fall of Acre and the end of the Crusades in the Holy Land in 1291.Įven after the Crusader States ceased to exist, the title of "King of Jerusalem" was claimed by a number of European noble houses descended from the kings of Cyprus or the kings of Naples, and is claimed by the current king of Spain. Crusaders re-captured the city of Jerusalem in the Sixth Crusade, during 1229–12–1244. The crusaders in Jerusalem were conquered in 1187, but their Kingdom of Jerusalem survived, moving the capital to Acre in 1191. In 1100 Baldwin I, Godfrey's successor, was the first ruler crowned as king. Godfrey of Bouillon, the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, refused the title of king choosing instead the title Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri, that is Advocate or Defender of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The King of Jerusalem was the supreme ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Crusader state founded by Christian princes in 1099 when the First Crusade took control of the city.