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Godfrey of Bouillon
Godfrey of Bouillon was Duke of Lower Lorraine and a leader of the First Crusade, son of Count Eustace II of Boulogne. He pawned his castle of Bouillon to finance the expedition. After the capture of Jerusalem in 1099 he became its first Latin ruler, taking the title Advocate of the Holy Sepulchre, and died the next year, succeeded by his brother Baldwin I.
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