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Isabella I (1172 – 5 April 1205) was reigning Queen of Jerusalem from 1190 to her death in 1205. She was the daughter of Amalric I of Jerusalem and his second wife Maria Comnena, a Byzantine princess. Her half-brother, Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, engaged her to Humphrey IV of Toron.

The Kingdom of Jerusalem, also known as the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, was a Crusader state that was established in the Levant immediately after the First Crusade. It lasted for almost two hundred years, from the accession of Godfrey of Bouillon in 1099 until the siege of Acre in 1291.

Isabella I, byname Isabella of Anjou, French Isabelle d’Anjou, (born 1172—died 1205), queen of Jerusalem (1192–1205).. Daughter of Almaric I of Jerusalem and Maria Comnena, she succeeded to the throne of Jerusalem after the death of her sister, Sibyl (Sibylle), in 1190 and the deposition of Sibyl’s husband and consort in 1192.

Albania Kingdom from 1928 until 1943 (1939–1943 in personal union with Italy) Austria Empire under the Habsburg monarchy from 1804 until 1918. All emperors, with the exception of Charles I, were buried in the Imperial Crypt (Kaisergruft), at the Capuchin Church, in Vienna.

The queen of Jerusalem whom Shachar—again following Runciman—names as Yolanda (pp. 18, 24) named herself Isabella in her charters, and modern crusade scholars normally refer to her as Isabel or Isabella II of Jerusalem.

She was the daughter of Amalric I of Jerusalem and his second wife Maria Comnena, half-sister of Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Sibylla of Jerusalem, aunt of Baldwin V, a grandniece of Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus, who had received the town and territory of Nablus as a dower from her husband the king.

Reconquista, in medieval Spain and Portugal, a series of campaigns by Christian states to recapture territory from the Muslims (Moors), who had occupied most of the Iberian Peninsula in the early 8th century. Learn more about the history and significance of the Reconquista in this article.