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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...belonged to the Templars. The place was only three miles distant from Acre, and the population of the town was thrown into the utmost consternation. The military friars, however, succeeded in repulsing the invaders, and had restored tranquility to the Latin kingdom, when the prospects of the land were again overcast by the death of the king. Amauri had partaken somewhat too plentifully of a favourite dish of fish, and was seized with an alarming illness, which speedily hurried him to the grave. He died at Acre on the 1st of April, A. D. 1205, and queen Isabella was a fourth time a widow. Amauri had issue by Isabella one daughter; but before the close of the year both the mother and the child died at Acre. The crowns of Jerusalem and Cyprus, which were united on the heads of Amauri and Isabella, were now after their decease again divided. Mary, the eldest daughter of the queen, by the famous Conrad, marquis of Montferrat, was acknowledged heiress to the crown of the Latin kingdom, and Hugh de Lusigiian, the eldest son of Amauri by his first wife, succeeded to the sovereignty of the island of Cyprus. This young prince married the princess Alice, daughter of Isabella by king Henry, count of Champagne, and half sister to the young queen Mary by the mother's side. The young and tender princess who had just now succeeded to the throne of the Latin kingdom, was fourteen years of age, and Contin. Will. Tyr. col. 66«--6«2. Marin. Sanul. p. 2n4. the Templars and Hospitallers were her natural guardians and Prilip protectors. They directed the military force of the Latin empire M D' u"7' in the field, and the government of the country in the cabinet: and defended the kingdom during her minority with zeal and success against all the attacks of the...

Charles G. Addison was an English barrister and historical, travel, and legal writer during the nineteenth century. He is the author of "Damascusand Palmyra", "The Temple Church", andtwo legal textbooks, "A Treatise on the Law of Contracts and Wrongsand their Remedies", and "A Treatise on the Law of Torts". He lived in England.