Again, with respect to her action at her coronation, poor Sybil comes in again for her share of blame. She had no business, we are assured, to choose Guy, who had already proved himself an unsatisfactory governor; and in the interest of the kingdom, she ought to have married some one else. In other words, she ought to have committed sin in the interest of her subjects! Lastly, a wholesale charge of poisoning is brought against both Guy and Sybil. Probabilities are thrown overboard. They are accused of poisoning young Baldwin V.; and Guy is charged with the murder of his wife and children, though their death entirely destroyed his claim to the royal title. The truth is, that in the twelfth century, any death not easily to be accounted for was always set down to poison: and the nearest relatives, totally irrespective of character, were always suspected of having administered it. Men of Guy’s disposition,—impulsive, rash, and generous even to a fault, loving and self-sacrificing,—are not usually in the habit of murdering those they love best: and considered merely from a political point of view, the simultaneous deaths of Sybil and her children were the worst calamities which could have fallen upon Guy. *II. THE ROYAL FAMILY OF JERUSALEM.* Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem, eldest of the four daughters of Baldwin II., and Morsise of Armenia, _succeeded_ her father in 1131, and _died in_ 1141 or 1144. She _married_— Foulques V., Count of Anjou; _married_ 1128; _died_ at Acre, by accident, November, 1142. [He had previously been married to Ermengarde of Maine, by whom he had four children,—Geoffrey Plantagenet; Hélie Count of Maine; Sybil, Countess of Flanders; and Alice, Crown Princess of England.] _Issue of Queen Melisende_:— 1. Baldwin III, _born_ 1129, _died_ Feb., 1162, without issue. _Married_— Theodora Comnena, daughter of Isaac I., Emperor of the East 2. Amaury I., _born_ 1132-6; _died_ July 11, 1173. _Married_— (A) Agnes de Courtenay, daughter of Josceline, Count of Edessa: _divorced_. (B) MARIA COMNENA, daughter or niece of Manuel I., Emperor of the East: living 1190. [Character imaginary.] _Issue of Amaury I. By Agnes_:— 1. BALDWIN IV., the Leper; _born_ 1158; _abdicated_ 1183; _d._ March 16, 1185. Never married. 2. SYBIL I., _crowned_ Sept., 1186; _died_ at Acre, during the siege, 1190. [Character historical] _Married_— (A) Guglielmo, Marquis of Monferrato: _died_ 1180. (B) GUY DE LUSIGNAN: _mar._ 1183; _died_ September (Fabyan) 1193 (ib.) 1194 (Moreri, Woodward and Coates Chron. Cycl.) 1195 (Roger de Hoveden) 1196 (Anderson). [Character historical] _By Maria_:— 3. ISABEL I. [Character historical] _Married_— (A) HOMFROY DE TOURS: _mar. circ._ 1183; _divorced_ 1190; _died_ 1199. [The legality of the divorce was very doubtful, and caused many subsequent counter-claims to the throne.]