The Crusades

941.192 - 971.476 Nathan W. Bingham

so that he could build the Church of the Holy Sepulchre there, and it became then a predominantly Christian city until it fell in 638 to the Muslims. So Jerusalem had had quite a checkered history, and it had great varieties to it, and now it was in Crusader hands. And the Crusaders determined that one of the leading noblemen who had fought in the Crusade should be named King of Jerusalem.