God's War: A New History of the Crusades

Benedict VIII, pope 55

Benedict XII, pope 830–31, 905

Benedict XIII, anti-pope 854

Benedict d’Alignan, bishop of Marseilles 719–20

Benevento, battle of (1266) 898

Benzo of Alba 69

Berengaria of Navarre, queen of England 442–4, 450

Bernard, abbot of Clairvaux 27–8, 68, 250–51, 252, 255, 257, 275–99, 304–5, 306, 310, 311, 337–8, 384, 489, 569, 580, 674, 678–80

De consideratione 337–8

De laude novae militiae 250–51, 255, 256, 277

Bernard, count of Ploetzkau 293, 320

Bernard Gui, inquisitor 602–3

misrepresention of, in Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose 602

Bernard of Valence, patriarch of Antioch 193

Bertha of Sulzbach, Byzantine empress 319

Berthier of Orléans, poet and clerk 388–9

Berthold, bishop of Livonia 488, 689–90

Bertrada of Montfort, countess of Anjou 107

Bertrand, acting count of Toulouse, count of Tripoli 196–7, 198

Bertrand, claimant to county of Tripoli 198–9, 331

Bertrand of Born, troubadour 575

Bertrand du Guesclin 886

Bertrand of Montcontour 86

Bertrand du Poujet, legate 900

Bertrandon de la Brocquière, Burgundian agent 828, 846, 859

Bethgibelin 221, 224, 231

Bethlehem 153, 155, 202, 207, 225, 231, 236, 336, 471, 740

Béziers, massacre at (1209) 590–92

Birger, king of Sweden 697

Birger Jarl, Swedish crusader 697

Blanche of Castile, queen of France 772, 780, 803

Bodrum (Halicarnassus), St Peter’s castle at 884–5

Bogomils, Balkan heretics 573–4

Bohemia, kingdom of 9–10

Bohemund, prince of Taranto and

Antioch 14, 15, 59, 71, 76–7, 82, 93, 94, 110–14, 115, 119–20, 121, 130, 131–2, 136–7, 138–42, 145, 146–52, 161, 175, 178, 186, 190, 193–4, 197, 201, 203, 221, 234, 246, 258, 261–3, 537

physical description of 262

Bohemund II, prince of Antioch 191–2, 194, 195, 196, 200, 264, 267, 346

Bohemund III, prince of Antioch 191, 346, 347, 348, 361, 403, 428, 492

Bohemund IV, count of Tripoli, prince of Antioch 200, 492, 555, 716, 723

Bohemund V, count of Tripoli, prince of Antioch 726, 785

Bohemund VI, count of Tripoli, prince of Antioch 728, 806

Bohemund VII, count of Tripoli 817

Boleslav III, king of Poland 678

Boniface III, marquis of Montferrat 504, 517–20, 525, 528, 531, 532–3, 538–9, 541–2, 547, 550, 554–5, 556, 588

Boniface VIII, pope 842, 899

Boniface IX, pope 854

Bonizo, bishop of Sutri 47, 67

Liber de Vita Christiana 47

Boris, Hungarian claimant 321

Boucicaut, Jean le Meingre, Marshal of France 707, 846, 856

Bourges, assembly at (1145) 276–7, 278, 323

Bouvines, battle of (1214) 595, 598, 615

Bremen 398, 412, 414, 424, 430, 685, 689

Brian FitzCount 168, 244

Bridget of Sweden, saint 697

Brindisi 118, 290, 323, 440, 520, 741, 744, 745, 746, 748, 762

Bromholm, abbey of 558

Bruno, bishop of Olmutz 706, 815

Bruno of Segni, papal legate 261

bula de la cruzada 655, 671

Burchard, bishop of Worms 44

Burchard, count of Vendôme 42, 43

Bursuq of Hamadan 187, 191

Byzantine church, union with Rome 538, 559–60, 815, 816, 838, 849–50, 862

Byzantium, empire of 1, 4, 10–12, 21, 35, 49–50, 52–3, 68, 162, 181, 189–90, 191, 193–4, 195, 261–3, 265–6, 273–4, 290–91, 342, 349, 360, 496, 501, 509–10, 514–15, 533–8, 555–60, 830, 845–52

Cadmus, Mt (Honaz Daghi), battle of (1148) 326–7

Caesarea 153, 178, 179, 205, 220, 224, 233–4, 355, 628, 636, 722, 748, 807

Caesarius of Heisterbach, theologian 479, 480

Caffaro, Genoese chronicler 180

Calatrava, Order of 256, 667–8

Calixtus II, pope 249, 253, 258, 265, 275, 664, 668

Calixtus III, pope 865, 869, 871, 890

Caltabellota, treaty of (1302) 899

Canary Islands 838

Canute, Danish duke 252, 264, 681

Canute V, king of Denmark 305, 680, 681

Canute VI, king of Denmark 377, 382, 690

Carmelites, Order of 730

Casal Imbert 222, 404, 726

Castelnaudary 563–6, 596, 624

Catalan Company, the 162, 850

Cathars, Catharism 568–605

Celestine III, pope 480, 488, 491, 666–7, 685

Cerne, monks of 106

Chanson d’Antioche, La 40, 84, 86, 246, 248

chansons de geste 49, 50, 56, 245, 246

Chanson des chétifs 236

Charlemagne, king of the Franks, emperor 5, 36–7, 40, 68, 650, 908

Charles IV, king of France 830

Charles V, king of France 887–8

Charles VI, king of France 852, 854, 858

Charles VII, king of France 866, 909–10

Charles VIII, king of France 872, 910

Charles IV, king of Germany and Bohemia, emperor 887

Charles V, king of Germany and Spain, emperor 671, 902, 910

Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily 724, 731–2, 772, 795, 806, 807, 810–12, 815, 816, 817–18, 838, 849, 898

Charles the Good, count of Flanders 207, 252

Charles the Rash, duke of Burgundy 858, 861

Châteaudun, crusade confraternity of 776

Christian, bishop of the Prussians 699–700, 704

Christian of Gistel 299, 300, 309–17 passim

Christians

Armenian 125, 193, 215, 226, 232, 849

Coptic 126, 637

Greek Orthodox 125, 192–3, 194, 225, 226, 231, 681, 684, 849–50

Jacobite 125, 193, 225, 226, 232

Maronite 125, 225, 226, 616

Melkite 226, 616

Mozarab 314, 315, 654, 660

Nestorian 213, 226, 641, 642, 785

‘Syrian’ 204, 215, 224–5, 226, 231–2, 235

Christine de Pisan, mystic and polemicist 909

Chud-Peipus, Lake, battle of (1242) 696, 701