God's War: A New History of the Crusades

hospital of in Jerusalem 180, 253

Amalric, king of Jerusalem 201, 208–9, 212, 218, 223, 231, 236, 332, 337, 347–50, 357–8, 359

Amaury of Montfort 563–6, 600, 757, 759, 765–6

Ambroise, poet chronicler 351, 472–3

Ambrose of Milan 29, 33–4, 173

Americas, the 838, 910, 914

Anacletus II, anti-pope 14, 248, 266

Andrew II, king of Hungary 615, 626–7, 629, 635, 699

Andrew of Longjumeau, OP 785, 786, 798

Andronicus I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor 422, 517

Andronicus II Palaeologus, Byzantine emperor 838, 849

Ankara, battle of (1402) 847, 856

Anna Comnena 97, 111–12, 113, 114, 119–20, 147, 262, 537

Alexiad 111–12

Anse, synod of 171, 247

Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury 49, 88, 236, 569

Anselm, bishop of Havelburg 305, 307

Anselm of Lucca 67

Anselm, archbishop of Milan 170, 174

Anselm of Ribemont 164, 172

Antioch (in Syria) 12, 15, 53, 61, 119, 120, 122, 126, 129, 133, 136, 175, 403, 422, 427–8, 453, 534, 536, 806, 810

Assises d’Antioche 729

battle of 146–7

Lake of, battle of (1098) 140

patriarchate of 4, 193, 197, 323

principality of 85, 111, 112, 149, 178, 187, 188, 189–96, 212–40, 273, 319, 323, 345–6, 354, 716, 721

siege of (1097–8) 59, 80, 93, 117, 120, 132–48, 155, 163, 334

apartheid 225–40

Apocalypse, the 31, 247

Arda of Edessa 202, 207

Aristotle 32, 34

Politics 32

Armenians 118–19, 132, 134, 135, 141, 142, 227

Arnaud Aimery, abbot of Cîteaux 581, 582, 583, 584–5, 587–92, 597, 669

Arnold III, count of Aerschot 300, 308–17 passim

Arnold, bishop of Lisieux 295

Arnold of Lübeck, chronicler 392, 418, 492, 685

Arnulf of Chocques, twice patriarch of Jerusalem 117, 145, 156, 160, 169, 204

Arnulf, king of the East Franks 38

Arpin, viscount of Bourges 175

Arqah, siege of (1099) 142, 145, 150–53

Arrabit, family of 228

Arsuf 161, 179

battle of (1191) 353, 439, 458–9

Ascalon 157, 206, 330, 332, 335, 372, 722, 765, 768, 771

battle of (1099) 60, 117, 140, 141, 160, 162

capture of (1153) 344, 346

and Third Crusade 456–71

al-Ashraf Khalil, sultan of Egypt 732, 818–22

Assassins, the, Shi’ite sect 128, 198, 199, 352, 466

assise de l’an et jour 196

assise des bourgeois 231, 729

assise du coup apparent 223

assise sur la ligece 205, 211, 223

assises (laws) of Jerusalem 205, 213, 230

Athena Promachos, Phidias’s statue of 548

Athlit, Chêteau Pèlerin 628, 637, 645, 648, 722, 822

Augustine of Hippo 29, 34–5, 38, 567, 583

Autun, crusade vowsat (1095) 63

Avars 36, 37

Avis, Order of 256, 667

Aymar, patriarch of Jerusalem 509, 721

al-Azimi, Aleppan chronicler 81

Al-Babayn, battle of (1167) 337, 348

Bacon, Francis, on holy war 875

Badr al-Jamali, vizier of Egypt 128

Bahram, vizier of Egypt 225

Baibars al-Bunduqdari, sultan of Egypt 351, 722, 728–9, 730–31, 797, 807, 813, 817

Baghdad 2, 173, 175, 554, 806

Abbasid caliphate, caliphs of 1, 12, 52, 53, 126, 188, 191, 195, 345, 348, 350, 353, 806

Bagrat the Armenian 134

Baha’ al-Din ibn Shaddad, writer and civil servant 235, 353, 384–5, 403, 406, 411, 414, 420, 442–3, 452, 456, 459, 464, 470, 472

Balak of Aleppo 187, 265, 271

Baldric of Borgueil, chronicler 93

Baldwin, archbishop of Canterbury 377–8, 381, 383, 385–7, 393, 395, 407, 428–30, 433, 435, 441

Baldwin, intimate, perhaps lover, of Baldwin I 202

Baldwin I, count of Edessa and king of Jerusalem 20, 82, 109, 111, 131–2, 134, 149, 161, 164, 178, 185–6, 187, 190, 195, 197, 200–205, 207, 254, 259, 357

Baldwin II, emperor of Constantinople 556, 632, 762, 783

Baldwin II, of Le Bourcq, count of Edessa and king of Jerusalem 109, 186–7, 188, 191, 194, 195, 200–201, 204–9, 221, 225, 228, 231, 264, 265, 267, 271, 346

Baldwin III, king of Jerusalem 195, 201, 207, 208–9, 212, 216, 223, 231, 331–2, 334, 335, 345, 346–7, 357

Baldwin IV, king of Jerusalem 209–11, 212, 227, 354, 356, 357–64

leprosy of 210–11, 212, 356

Baldwin V, king of Jerusalem 209, 236–7, 354, 361, 363–5

Baldwin IX, count of Flanders, emperor of Constantinople 502–3, 505, 507–8, 509, 510, 516, 518–20, 525–6, 531, 542, 550, 554–6, 559, 613, 885, 888

Baldwin of Ibelin 229, 359–60, 361, 365–6

Baldwin of Marasch 235, 268

Baldwin of Mons, count of Hainault 63

Balian of Ibelin 229, 371, 372, 429, 472

Balts, the 677, 685

al-Bara 121, 138, 140, 149, 190

Barbastro 660, 661

Bari 11–12, 14, 55, 108, 112, 537

Barisan (or Balian), founder of Ibelin family 221

Barisan of Beirut 725

Barkyaruq, Seljuk prince 128

Basil II, the Bulgar Slayer, Byzantine emperor 11, 55, 535

Bayeux Tapestry, the 76

Bayezid I, Ottoman sultan 846, 851, 853, 856–7

Bayezid II, Ottoman sultan 872

Bayt Nuba 462–4, 467–9

Beaufort, castle of 235, 404–5, 406, 407, 409, 415, 810

Bede 36, 41

Bedouin 4, 12, 226, 347, 356, 638

Bedum, Frisia 618–19

Beirut 153, 179, 221, 352, 372, 492, 495, 822

Ibelin palace at 238, 718, 730

Bela III, king of Hungary 419, 421, 434, 626

Bela IV, king of Hungary 785

Bela of Hungary 224

Belchite, confraternity of 256

Belgrade 96, 844

defence of (1456) 837, 844, 866–9

Belvoir, castle of 232, 372

bathroom at 238

Benedetto Accolti, chancellor of Florence and historian 829

Benedict, saint 39