Godfrey of Bouillon

American  

[boo-yawn] / buˈyɔ̃ /

noun

1. Duke of Lower Lorraine, 1060?–1100, French leader of the First Crusade 1096–99.

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Example Sentences

Nominal leader was Hugh, Count of Vermandois, who proved better at speaking than at fighting; then Godfrey of Bouillon took actual command, was first across the walls when they stormed Jerusalem.

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Great lords like Godfrey of Bouillon mortgaged their estates to raise armies and took up the Cross to serve God's cause with their swords.

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After the Battle of Ascalon secured their position, most of the First Crusaders went home, left Godfrey of Bouillon as Jerusalem's king.

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But no movie about the great Godfrey of Bouillon and his fellow crusaders is likely to grow out of this book.

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Godfrey of Bouillon, Duke of Lorrain, King of Jerusalem, plac'd here among the Princes of the House of Austria, as being descended from the same Family as they.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von