Lord Baldwin II DES MARETS

c. 1113-c.1145

• BIRTH: c. 1113 A.D, Marets, Cambray, Normandy, France

• MARRIAGE: still researching this

• FACTS: Baldwin II was the 2nd Lord of Marets, Cambray, Normandy, France. He fought in the Crusades in Palestine against the Turks, and for his bravery in the Holy Land, he received from the King of Jerusalem, in fief, the city of Rhosas, in Palestine, which caused his coat of arms to add Four Roses. These rewards were short lived and mostly paper. Conquered with his father Acre, Cesaraea, Ptolemais, Beirut, Sidon and Tyre and held it from 1118 to 1131. In 1142, Baldwin and the Count of Edessa, Josselin de Courtenay, reoccupied the city of Edessa, taking it from the Sultan Noradin. All was lost to Atabeks in 1144. All of the Near East was reconquered by Mohammedans by 1291.

• DEATH: c.1145, Palestine

                             Jean LORD OF BOUSIS 
 Baldwin I DES MARETS|
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|--Baldwin II DES MARETS
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|Alice DE TYREL          |
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