William of Tyre, a Crusade chronicler writing…
October 1186 CE
William of Tyre, a Crusade chronicler writing in the late twelfth century, describes sugar as "very necessary for the use and health of mankind".
William’s importance had dwindled with the victory of Agnes and her supporters, and with the accession of Baldwin V, infant son of Sibylla and William of Montferrat.
Baldwin was a sickly child and he died the next year.
He is succeeded in 1186 by his mother Sibylla and her second husband Guy of Lusignan, ruling jointly.
William is probably in failing health by this point.
There had been a new chancellor in May 1185; by October 21, 1186, there is a new archbishop of Tyre, Joscius, a canon and subdeacon of the church of Acre who had become Bishop of Acre on November 23, 1172.
He had been a member of the delegation from the Latin church of the Crusader states at the Third Lateran Council in 1179.
While in Europe, he had also visited France on behalf of King Baldwin IV, to negotiate a marriage between Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy, and Baldwin's sister Sibylla, but the marriage never took place; Sibylla instead married Guy of Lusignan the next year.
Meanwhile Sibylla and Guy have become Queen and King of Jerusalem, against the ambitions of Raymond III of Tripoli, who had hoped to have his own supporters succeed to the throne.
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