ABSTRACT
This chapter examines some of the ways in which the kingship and dynastic connections of Baldwin of Bourcq were perceived and interpreted by subsequent history in contrast to the rule of his two predecessors. It examines the genealogy and name-giving traditions of the royal family of the kingdom of Jerusalem from the time of Baldwin of Bourcq up to the reign of Baldwin IV. Unlike his two predecessors, Baldwin of Bourcq and his family provided a genealogical continuity for the Latin kingdom for the rest of its existence. Up to the fall of Acre to the Mamluks in 1291, all of the kingdom's rulers were either descendants, or the spouses of descendants, of Baldwin of Bourcq. Whilst a Bauduin de Burs is mentioned in the Chanson d'Antioche in connection with the events of the First Crusade, once his character becomes associated with the kingship of Jerusalem, Baldwin of Bourcq is transformed into Bauduin de Sebourg.
