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March 4, 2012 4:19 pm at 4:19 pm #602353avhabenParticipant
Who were the Kings of Jerusalem over the past 2,000 years?
March 4, 2012 5:17 pm at 5:17 pm #857348hershiMemberWeren’t all the Kings of Jerusalem the European Christian Crusaders? Like the King of England, the German Emperor, etc?
March 4, 2012 5:29 pm at 5:29 pm #857349ItcheSrulikMemberWikipedia has a list of the Christian ones starting in the first crusade. There were a few short lived autonomous Jewish provinces in Eretz Yisroel over the past 2000 years but I don’t think any of them had Yerushalayim.
March 4, 2012 7:04 pm at 7:04 pm #857350dash™ParticipantIt has been mostly an honorary title since 1291 and is claimed by a number of royal houses. The only legitimate monarch today that claims this title is Juan Carlos I of Spain.
March 4, 2012 7:20 pm at 7:20 pm #857351writersoulParticipantYou mean people who ruled over Jerusalem? Because there is a separate kingdom called the Kings of Jerusalem that lasted about 200 years during the time of the Crusades.
Well, after the destruction of Bayit Sheni it remained in the hands of the Romans for a while, after which it was ruled by Byzantium (really an extension of the Romans but it’s not always considered the same). Then the Muslims conquered it in the 600s and the Rashidun, Ummayad, Abbasid and Fatimid caliphates ruled over it. In 1099 Godfrey of Bouillon and his Crusaders of the First Crusade captured it and established the aforementioned Kingdom of Jerusalem. In 1187, Saladin captured it, and it pretty much stayed in Muslim control until the British captured it in 1917 except for a brief Mongol capture. In that time were the Mamluks, until the 16th century, and then the Ottomans. After the British part was controlled by the Jews in Israel and part by Jordan until 1967 when it was united.
Leshana haba beYerushalayim!
March 4, 2012 8:15 pm at 8:15 pm #857352ZeesKiteParticipantMalki Tzedek
March 4, 2012 11:05 pm at 11:05 pm #857353ItcheSrulikMemberdash: I thought it was abolished along with the holy roman empire?
Zeeskite: ??????? was more than 2000 years ago.
March 4, 2012 11:08 pm at 11:08 pm #857354That Big Bear AgainMemberYoilish Kroiz (Krausz) is the present King of Jerusalem.
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