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[fajrdrako]

I can't believe this. The world is catering to my tastes. This never happens. A conference on comics and the middle ages - mentioned in the same breath. Re they robbing my psyche for ideas?

Reminds me: I have to find the website again, and buy that comic book I found about the Crusades....

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[brashley46.livejournal.com]

Hee! Just befor you posted this, brownkitty who I know from Baen's Bar posted this: http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/2006/08/serpentes-on-shippe-spoylerez.html
Coinky-dink or what?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Oh, how wonderful! Or should I say... wonder-fulle? Thanks for the link! (Chuckle.)

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Which comic book are you thinking of?
I know of a couple of French comics about Baldwin IV; and I think Illustrated Classics did The Talisman, but my courage has so far failed me to dare investigate...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Since I don't remember the title, the author, or the publisher, I'm hoping I wrote it down somewhere! It's an independent comic (or two) recently put out by a man in California, which I stumbled across on amazon.com. I tried and failed to get it on Interlibrary Loan. The next step is to find the information again (if I can) and order it.... Yes, I'll share the info when I find it.

What are the French comics about Baldwin IV?

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

There's a French one, and a Belgian series that is around in Flemish as well as French:
Serge Dalens's L'Etoile de Pourpre (also published as Baudouin IV de Jérusalem)
Michel Bom and Thierry Cayman's Sylvain de Rochefort series (also in Flemish):
1 L'eau et le sang
2 Les oubliés
3 Prisonniers de Baalbek
4 Le piège de Montgisard

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I haven't actually read any of those but I've seen some of them - I particularly remember leafing trough one of the Sylvain de Rochefort albums.

Since I couldn't find the comic I was thinking of on Amazon.com I'll just have to hunt till I find the notes I took. Or until I remember the title, whichever comes first.

[tangledwood.livejournal.com]

*flail*

This is So Beyond Awesome.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

The Montgisard one has a rather good cover, which I think is meant to depict Baldwin.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It certainly is! Gotta encourage it - !

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Baldwin IV, you mean?

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Yes. Montgisard was his great triumph.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

It must be better than the film!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Uh-huh. Just making sure. There were so many Baldwins around.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Hm... I wonder if His Loveliness appears? And if he is suitably beauteous?

(Incidentally, I heard from Graham Shelby. See silverwhistle journal...)

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Imaginative naming was not a feature of the royal house of Jerusalem. 5 Baldwins, 3 Conrads, 2 Amaurys, 2 Isabellas and just a few miscellaneous one-offs.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Not to mention other assorted Baldwins wandering the countryside, like Baldwin d'Ibelin. But all the families in Europe seem to have had similar habits - France being stuck with Louis, English coping with one Henry after another (having given up on Williams), and so on. In the Lusignan family we get one Hugh after another.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

My family wasn't great on that either. If I'd been male, there's a strong chance I'd have been an Al(l)an or James. The earliest Allan I know (great-great-great-great-grandfather) was born in the 1720s; his son and grandson were Allans; then my great-grandfather was a James (but he had an older half-brother called Allan), my grandfather was Norman (Norrie), but again, he had an older brother Allan who died, and a brother James; and my Dad is Norman Alan (more modern spelling), but always called Alan to differentiate him from his father.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Sounds a little like my mother's family, on the Scottish side. The males were alternately Alan and Nicholas; the women were alternately Margaret and Elizabeth. So I'm an Elizabeth Margaret. My cousin is Margaret Elizabeth.