Editing Godfrey of Bouillon (section)

==Death==
[[File:Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870) (14762024916).jpg|thumb|[[Cenotaph]] of Godfrey of Bouillon in the [[Church of the Holy Sepulchre]] (1870, after a 15th-century [[woodcut]])]]
The Arab chronicler [[Ibn al-Qalanisi]] reported that "In this year [1099], Godfrey, lord of Jerusalem, appeared before the fortified port of 'Akkā [Acre] and made an assault upon it, but was struck by an arrow, which killed him".{{Sfn|Ibn al-Qalanisi|1932|p=51}} While this claim is repeated in other Muslim sources, it does not appear in Christian chronicles; [[Albert of Aix]] and [[Ekkehard of Aura]] suggest Godfrey fell ill while visiting [[Caesarea Maritima|Caesarea]] in June 1100 and died in Jerusalem on 18 July.{{Sfn|Asbridge|2004|pp=117–118}}

Suggestions he was poisoned are unlikely and it is more probable he died from a disease similar to [[typhoid]]. Godfrey never married.{{Efn|[[Marjorie Chibnall]] (''Select Documents of the English Lands of the Abbey of Bec'', Camden (3rd Ser.) 73 (1951) pp. 25–26) followed earlier writers in suggesting that since the names Godfrey and Geoffrey shared a common origin, Godfrey is identical to the Geoffrey of Boulogne who appears in English records, marrying Beatrice, daughter of [[Geoffrey de Mandeville (11th century)|Geoffrey de Mandeville]] and that he left behind in England a son, William de Boulogne (adult by 1106, died c. 1169). However, Alan Murray analyzed the argument in detail and concluded that contemporary documents clearly distinguish between the two names, and as there is no evidence for their identity and traditions of the Crusade indicate Godfrey was unmarried and childless, the two must be considered to have been distinct. Geoffrey, the English landholder, was apparently an illegitimate brother of Godfrey, the Crusader.{{Sfn|Murray|2000|pp=155–165}}}}