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the 1170s the Crusader states of Outremer, as the area of Latin
settlement came to be called, had developed well-established
governments. With allowance made for regional differences (e.g.,
Antioch in its early years under the Norman dynasty was somewhat
more centralized), the institutions of the northern states
resembled those of Jerusalem. The governing class of Franks was
no longer... Successive regents had failed to control the
Jerusalem baronage, and this ultimately resulted in the
disintegration of the entire structure of Outremer into separate
parts. Antioch-Tripoli before its fall had been increasingly
aloof and through intermarriage closely tied to Armenia. In
Acre, the seat of government of the kingdom, there was a commune
of barons and bourgeois. Immigration had... What made you want
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