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His friends were impressed, but his tutor horrified. The boy and his noble playmates had been testing each other's tolerance for pain by pinching and scratching, and young Baldwin outstripped them all, not complaining or even seeming to feel any discomfort. In 1174, Archbishop William made a terrible discovery about his charge. His education was entrusted to the greatest scholar and historian in the realm, William, Archbishop of Tyre. His power fluctuated and he ruled with the assistance of his mother, uncle, and various baillis, or regents not because of weakness of character, but on account of both his extreme youth, and the crippling and incurable affliction that gradually overcame him.ĭespite his mother's disgrace and divorce, young Baldwin was acknowledged as legitimate by all, and brought up as befitted a royal prince, the King of Jerusalem's sole male heir. King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, called the Leper King, ruled the Kingdom of Jerusalem for over ten years from the death of his father, King Amalric, in 1174.