Kingdom of Jerusalem

"What is Jerusalem worth? Everything!"

― Saladin and Balian The Kingdom of Jerusalem, declared as the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, otherwise referred to as Jerusalem, was a Theocratic Monarchy that was built upon the ashes of an Islamic state in the aftermath of the first Crusade and ushered a major presence of Christianity in the Middle East.

History
The Kingdom of Jerusalem was founded by Godfrey of Bouillon 1099, who then ruled the Kingdom as its first monarch, though the title was Princeps rather than Monarch, at the end of the First Crusade. The new christendom rose to power with a groundswell of Christian support, promising catholic prosperity from the hotbed of the Middle East, while capitalizing on the efforts of Crusaders and anti-Islam sentiment by Christians. The subsequent iteration of the Kingdom of Jerusalem would last only a few centuries before falling to the Mamluks, which had invaded the christendom from the East and removed the Christian bulwark from the Middle East.

The next iteration of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, established subsequent to the Sixth Crusade, stood virtually unchallenged for the next few centuries despite the looming threat of the Islamic Caliphates and Sultanates. However, such conflicts were won and the Kingdom of Jerusalem held stable while the Caliphates began to decline over dynastic struggles. The Kingdom of Jerusalem itself achieved its first major victory against the Islamic world with the conquest of its southern territories, which were initially Muslim, this regained Jerusalem for the christendom and lead for the movement of the capital to Jerusalem from Acre. The following years saw initial Christian successes until a major Islamic triumph at Suez, halting the Christian expansion west into Africa. However, the christendom bested the Islamic nations again in Jordan, leading to Christian gains in that region.