Queen of Jerusalem
She inherited a kingdom in pieces during the Third Crusade, then watched three husbands rule it in her name. Isabella I of Jerusalem was the rightful heir who married four times in fifteen years — not for love, but because the throne required a king and the nobles kept choosing one for her.
Isabella was born around 1172, daughter of King Amalric and his second wife Maria Komnene. Her half-brother Baldwin IV suffered from leprosy and arranged her marriage to Humphrey IV of Toron to neutralize her stepfamily's opposition to her half-sister Sibylla's husband, Guy of Lusignan. When Sibylla seized the throne in 1186 after Baldwin V's death, Humphrey recognized her claim, sidelining Isabella. Four years later, with Sibylla dead and the Third Crusade raging, Isabella's mother and stepfather forced her to leave Humphrey and marry Conrad of Montferrat so she could claim the crown against…
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