GODFREY or BOUILLON, Prince of Lorraine, and first Christian king of Jerusalem, was born in 1061 at Bézy, near Nivelle; died at Jerusalem, June 18, 1100. For the details of his life see CHIVALRY, and CRUSADES. (See also Gibbon, Decline and Fall, chap. lviii.; Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, &c., &c.)