Tomb of Baldwin V

[2] The construction was entrusted to the workshop of the Temple Area and proceeded quickly; the tomb had been finished when, a little over a year after Baldwin's death, the city of Jerusalem was captured by the Egyptian Muslim ruler Saladin.

[3] Horn identified the tomb as that of the child monarch on the basis of its epitaph and the small size (128 cm (50 in) in length).

Fragments of the tombs were salvaged and inserted into the Greek section of the Holy Sepulchre, where they remained until the restoration works in the 1940s and 1970s.

[4] Horn's work enabled Israeli art historian Zehava Jacoby to propose a reconstruction of Baldwin V's tomb.

[5] In a sharp contrast to the austere tombs of his predecessors, and "inversely proportional to his political significance",[6] Baldwin V's tomb was richly decorated with large marble panels featuring acanthus ornaments; half-length portraits of Jesus and angels; conch-shaped niches; and knotted columns, which were a distinctive mark of the Temple Area workshop.