Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for Godfrey of Bouillon across 3 places, from 1060 to 1100.
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Godfrey of Bouillon ( 1060 – 18 July 1100) was a preeminent leader of the First Crusade, and the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from 1099 to 1100.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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1060year
Boulogne-sur-Merattested“Godfrey of Bouillon was born around 1060, probably in Boulogne-sur-Mer, although one 13th-century chronicler cites Baisy, a town in what is now Walloon Brabant, Belgium.”source: Wikipedia: Godfrey of Bouillon
June 1100month
Jerusalemattested“While this claim is repeated in other Muslim sources, it does not appear in Christian chronicles; Albert of Aix and Ekkehard of Aura suggest Godfrey fell ill while visiting Caesarea in June 1100 and died in Jerusalem on 18 July.”source: Wikipedia: Godfrey of Bouillon
June 1100month
Caesarea Maritimaattested“While this claim is repeated in other Muslim sources, it does not appear in Christian chronicles; Albert of Aix and Ekkehard of Aura suggest Godfrey fell ill while visiting Caesarea in June 1100 and died in Jerusalem on 18 July.”source: Wikipedia: Godfrey of Bouillon
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1085year
Constantinoplementioned“Accompanied by Byzantine soldiers, in early May the Crusaders invested Nicaea, a city close to Constantinople captured by the Turks in 1085.”source: Wikipedia: Godfrey of Bouillon
August 1096month
Brindisimentioned“Most of those from southern and northern France sailed from Brindisi across the Adriatic Sea, while Godfrey and his two brothers, leading an army from Lorraine reportedly 40,000 strong, set out in August 1096 following the route taken by…”source: Wikipedia: Godfrey of Bouillon
August 1096month
Adriatic Seamentioned“Most of those from southern and northern France sailed from Brindisi across the Adriatic Sea, while Godfrey and his two brothers, leading an army from Lorraine reportedly 40,000 strong, set out in August 1096 following the route taken by…”source: Wikipedia: Godfrey of Bouillon
August 1096month
Lorrainementioned“Most of those from southern and northern France sailed from Brindisi across the Adriatic Sea, while Godfrey and his two brothers, leading an army from Lorraine reportedly 40,000 strong, set out in August 1096 following the route taken by…”source: Wikipedia: Godfrey of Bouillon
July 1097month
Dorylaeummentioned“At Dorylaeum in July 1097, he helped relieve the vanguard at Dorylaeum which had been pinned down by a Turkish force under Kilij Arslan I, then sacked their camp.”source: Wikipedia: Godfrey of Bouillon
October 1097month
Siege of Antiochmentioned“Godfrey also took part in the Siege of Antioch, which began in October 1097 and did not surrender until June 1098 after long and bitter fighting.”source: Wikipedia: Godfrey of Bouillon
August 1098month
Palestinementioned“As they travelled south into Palestine, in place of the Seljuk Turks, the Crusaders instead encountered the armies of the Fatimids, who had taken Jerusalem in August 1098.”source: Wikipedia: Godfrey of Bouillon
1099year
Jerusalemmentioned“Godfrey continued to play a minor, yet significant, role in the battles against the Seljuks until the Crusaders finally reached Jerusalem in 1099.”source: Wikipedia: Godfrey of Bouillon
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