Baldwin I of Jerusalem is crowned as the first King of Jerusalem on December 25, 1100 in the Church of the Nativity.
Some sources indicate he was crowned in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre but it is now believed that Baldwin chose Bethlehem for the ceremony because the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the traditional coronation site, was controlled by the Latin Patriarch Daimbert of Pisa, who had a political conflict with Baldwin.
