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The Leper King's Miracle

In 1177, a 16-year-old king with leprosy led 500 knights against Saladin's 26,000-strong army. What happened next became one of history's greatest upsets. In November 1177, something impossible happened on the dusty plains near Montgisard. Baldwin IV of Jerusalem was sixteen years old. His body was being destroyed by leprosy—he could no longer feel his hands, his face was disfigured, and medieval medicine offered no hope. By every rational calculation, he should have been hidden away, protected from a world that feared his disease. Instead, he led a charge that shattered an empire. Saladin—the most powerful Muslim ruler since the early Caliphates—had assembled an army of 26,000 men to finally reclaim Jerusalem. His scouts reported that the young leper king was trapped in Ascalon with fewer than 500 knights. Victory seemed certain. He never saw Baldwin coming. What followed was one of the most extraordinary military victories in medieval history: a dying teenager, fighting with hands he could not feel, broke the unbreakable army and sent the great Saladin fleeing on a camel through the night. This is the story of the Battle of Montgisard—and the Leper King who earned his miracle. Find more details at: https://aiglessstories.substack.com/p... CHAPTERS/TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Intro 0:10 - The Boy Who Should Not Have Won 1:23 - An Empire United Against Jerusalem 3:22 - A Disease That Should Have Ended Everything 5:28 - The Sultan's Fatal Contempt 7:19 - 450 Knights Against an Empire 9:34 - Prayer Before the Storm 11:34 - The Templar Wedge 13:20 - 26,000 Men Broken 15:20 - Ten Years Bought in Blood 16:59 - Why We Remember 📚 SOURCES & FURTHER READING: Primary Sources: • William of Tyre, "Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum" (History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea) • Ibn al-Athir, "Al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh" (The Complete History) • Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani, Contemporary accounts Modern Scholarship: • Bernard Hamilton, "The Leper King and His Heirs" (Cambridge University Press) • Malcolm Barber, "The Crusader States" (Yale University Press) • Andrew Jotischky, "Crusading and the Crusader States" (Routledge) • Thomas Madden, "The New Concise History of the Crusades" #Crusades #MedievalHistory #Saladin #BaldwinIV #BattleOfMontgisard #LeperKing #MilitaryHistory #Documentary #HistoryDocumentary #MedievalWarfare #KingdomOfJerusalem #CrusaderStates #IslamicHistory #AyyubidDynasty #KnightsTemplar #TrueCross #MiddleAges #HistoricalBattles #MilitaryTactics #AncientWarfare #HistoryChannel #LearnHistory #EpicBattles #History #Education #Documentary #War #Battle