4 Works in Humphrey IV of Toron
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Inheritance By Fire by sinisterpotat0
Fandoms: Kingdom of Heaven (2005), Kingdom of Heaven (2005) RPF, 12th Century CE RPF, Historical RPF
22 Aug 2025
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This is the second book in The Phoenix of Jerusalem series.
At nineteen, King Baldwin IV wages war on three fronts—against the invaders beyond Jerusalem's walls, the factions fracturing his court, and the leprosy consuming him from within. Surrounded by unrest and racing against time, he leans on the one person who sees him beyond the crown or the illness: Ysolde, his brilliant physician and once-lost childhood friend, who returned for duty and found love. As the kingdom begins to fall, Baldwin and Ysolde fight to hold what remains, protect each other, and carve out the right to live on their own terms before all that they are—king, healer, city, and bond—is lost to fire and memory.
‼️Disclaimer: This novel is a work of historical fiction inspired by the life of King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem. While the character may be familiar from the film Kingdom of Heaven, this story draws instead from historical chronicles, medieval sources, and scholarly interpretation—seeking to explore Baldwin's legacy as it might have truly been lived.
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Heaven Can't Wait by baudouinette
Fandoms: Kingdom of Heaven (2005), Kingdom of Heaven (2005) RPF
06 Aug 2025
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1183. Lluna Valentia bint Al Mualim De Bosch is a lady fruit of an interfaith union that hoped to unite two conflicting faiths of Al-Andalus. But hope is a dream and the reality is that the family's influence is in danger with the constant friction between the Almohads and the Christians wishing to retake their land.
At nineteen, Lluna is the only remaining daughter to be wed, and their only hope to salvage their social standing. At the other side of the Mediterranean, the terminally young King of Jerusalem fears for the future of his kingdom and his struggle to provide a successor that will lead in example.
In a last act of hope, or desperation, word is sent out that the King looks for a betrothed. Many kingdoms receive the news, but few people are eager to answer. Yet in Al-Andalus, it means a seizable opportunity for a certain family. It is no doubt a convenient solution for both sides. But the convenience is flawed, complicated. Because of the King's illness, it remains to be seen whether there is a point to it all. And, after all, nobody asked what Lady Lluna thought about the whole situation.Can this unwilling bride give her life and love away to a leper? And what makes her the only one who could?
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Now That We Have Faces by solitariusvirtus
Fandoms: 12th Century CE RPF, Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
15 Jun 2025
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The turbulent days of Baldwin the Leper’s reign are marked by labyrinthine alliances of strange bedfellows. The Latin East lies under threat of conquest as the power of Salah ad-Din grows with each military victory. Rife with intrigue and betrayal, the king’s court holds dangers unnumbered. But there is also, for those brave enough to seek it out, glory everlasting. Whether by the sword or by the quill, history waits to be carved.
When a young woman of strategic influence, if not altogether noble rank, enters the king’s orbit, their common sympathies steadily bring them together in a bond wending from the plains of philia to the peaks of eros. In a world where destinies are shaped by seemingly the most inconsequential of choices, affection is not so much an indulgence as it is a weapon.
Duty and passion, embittered brothers with a common goal, must come together, or else tear the fragile creature that is man asunder. Baldwin must weigh the risks that come with unexpected joy against his own knowledge of demise. Dare he go against the customs of his age? Or ought he leave well enough alone?
Ambition and affection entangled in a ruthless game of power.
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The Phoenix of Jerusalem by sinisterpotat0
Fandoms: Kingdom of Heaven (2005), Kingdom of Heaven (2005) RPF, 12th Century CE RPF, Historical RPF
01 May 2025
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In the golden light of a crumbling kingdom, King Baldwin IV, the Leper King of Jerusalem, entrusts his life to a physician unlike any other—a brilliant woman from the East who bears a face he thought lost to time.
Ten years ago, a tragedy stole her from Jerusalem—and from him. Baldwin grieved her as one mourns a ghost of childhood. Now, she returns in secret, cloaked in a healer's robes, bearing the weight of a past neither can escape.
As political threats mount and his body falters, Baldwin must confront an impossible truth: the cure for his dying soul may be the very woman fate once stole—and now gives back.‼️Disclaimer: This novel is a work of historical fiction inspired by the life of King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem. While the character may be familiar from the film Kingdom of Heaven, this story draws instead from historical chronicles, medieval sources, and scholarly interpretation—seeking to explore Baldwin's legacy as it might have truly been lived.