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Crusader king of Jerusalem from 1174 to 1185, Baldwin IV ruled as a leper from childhood, defeated Saladin at Montgisard, defended the Latin kingdom by faith and sword and kept pragmatic truces with the Muslims.
Political topics
Baldwin IV leans further toward religious than 99% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Religion is where Baldwin IV stands furthest from the rest.
On Free market, Baldwin IV sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
Ideological proximity
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Project of a dynastic empire organized as a federation of nationalities, with regional autonomy, local parliaments and recognized languages, while retaining a hereditary crown, unified army and military assertion of imperial greatness.
Roman imperial tradition that, from Julius Caesar through Augustus, Nero, Marcus Aurelius and Justinian, concentrates army, law and administration in the ruler while preserving institutions, popular provisioning and sovereignty over a diverse empire.
Current advocating a monarch who actually governs, as constitutional head of the executive or absolute sovereign, over a federation of states or regions with broad self-government, as in the German Empire of 1871, the United Arab Emirates, and Malaysia.
The most distant ideology
Techno-AnarchismAnarchist30%
King of the Franks and emperor, Charlemagne united military expansion, Christianization, administrative reform, and cultural patronage, becoming a symbol of imperial Christian monarchy and the medieval European order.
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A sovereign kingdom traditionally dated to 843, with its own Crown, Parliament and law until union with England in 1707. The dynastic union of the crowns in 1603 and the Presbyterian Reformation shaped its history.
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