GOLDEN BROWN || Baldwin IV

🪽 Judinta von Baden, a young german noble. She never spend much thought on marriage, but an order from the emperor can't be rejected, not even when her father is said emperor's cousin. And so she is to leave her homeland and family behind and travel to the far away kingdom of Jerusalem, only her brother and her hand maid by her side, to marry Jerusalem's king. Baudouin IV.

Baudouin IV, the young king of Jerusalem, to many known as 'the Leper King'. He never thought about marriage, given his condition, but as the tension in his court grows and the pressure for a successor gets more, his advisor and former teacher William of Tyre suggest to give marriage a second thought. So Baudouin sends out word in an last act of desperation.

And Emperor Friedrich I. Barbarossa sees a chance for a stronger alliance and influence in the Holy Land and demands his cousin's oldest daughter to become queen of Jerusalem.

So at only eighteen she has to adjust to a new land, new culture and to be seperated from her family.

But will Lady Judinta be able to love a leper like she is supposed to love her husband?

Not to forget the political tensions and threats, in court as well as right infront of the kingdoms borders.