Capture of Beirut

Date: May 13, 1110 • Location: Genoa, Italy

Baldwin I of Jerusalem captured Beirut from the Fatimid Caliphate with the help of a Genoese fleet.

Baldwin I was the first count of Edessa from 1098 to 1100 and king of Jerusalem from 1100 to his death in 1118. He was the youngest son of Count Eustace II of Boulogne and Ida of Lorraine and married a Norman noblewoman, Godehilde of Tosny. He received the County of Verdun in 1096, but he soon joined the crusader army of his brother Godfrey of Bouillon and became one of the most successful commanders of the First Crusade.