That should be marvel enough for any Christian monarch!
Better, I suspect, than most of our Christian monarchs.
Although Saladin was almost twenty years older and more experienced than Baldwin, the youthful Christian monarch did not flounder in stressful situations.
The life of the first Christian monarch would have special relevance for a king whose own father experienced such a notable conversion to Catholicism.
Emperor John is a Christian monarch.
Through history there have been many notable Christian female monarchs, including queens and noblewomen honoured as saints or model Christians and who commanded nations.
Louis IX is often considered the model of the ideal Christian monarch.
But the same taxes they used to pay to the Muslim ruler they now paid to the Christian monarchs.
Did I not tell you, Harry, in Paris, that we had started a dangerous precedent with our Crusade against a Christian monarch?
He also convinced the Jesuits that as a Christian monarch, he would be able to obtain the conversion of his subjects.