William of Tyre

William of Tyre

▪ French-Syrian historian
born c. 1130, Syria
died September 29, 1186, Rome [Italy]

      Franco-Syrian politician, churchman, and historian whose experiences in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem inspired him to write a history of medieval Palestine.

      Probably born to a French family that had settled in Frankish Syria during the 12th century, William was educated in France and Italy and knew Latin, Greek, and Arabic. He returned to Palestine in 1160 and was made archdeacon of Tyre in 1167. In the same year, he was sent on several diplomatic missions to Constantinople and Rome. Three years later he was made tutor to Baldwin (Baldwin IV), son of King Amalric I of Jerusalem. When Baldwin succeeded to the throne as Baldwin IV in 1174, he appointed William chancellor of the kingdom and archdeacon of Nazareth. He was promoted to archbishop of Tyre in June 1175 and in 1179 went to Rome to attend the Third Lateran Council. On his return he was received by the Byzantine emperor Manuel I Comnenus in Constantinople.

      William retired to Rome in 1183 after failing in his bid to be elected patriarch of Jerusalem (1180), taking the manuscripts of two books with him. His first, Gesta orientalium principum (“Deeds of the Eastern Rulers”), a history of the Arab East, has been lost; but his second work, Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum (“History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea”), a history of the Latin kings of Jerusalem, has been preserved. It is a scholarly account of the history of the Latin East from 614 to 1184.

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