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Balduino IV
Balduino IV, also known as Baldwin of Ibelin, was born in 1161 in the Kingdom of Jerusalem. He was the son of Balduino of Ibelin and Maria Comnena, the daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Comnenus. Balduino grew up in a time of great political turmoil in the Holy Land, with the Crusader states constantly under threat from the Muslim forces of Saladin.