God's War: A New History of the Crusades

Nicetas, Cathar leader 574, 579

Nicetas Choniates, civil servant and historian 423, 425, 514, 515, 536, 537, 546, 553

Nicholas, leader at Cologne of Children’s Crusade 610–11

Nicholas II, pope 14

Nicholas IV, pope 829, 840, 905

Nicholas V, pope 863, 865, 866

Nicholas Kannovos, Byzantine emperor 549

Nicholas Mesarites 553

Nicholas Sabraham 885–6

Nicomedia 82, 83, 173, 174, 323

Nicopolis, battle of (1396) 836, 837, 843, 847, 856–7

Niklot, prince of the Abotrites 305–7, 678–80, 683

Nîmes, Council of 74

Nivelo of Fréteval 86

Nivelo, bishop of Soissons 519, 553, 557

Nizam al-Mulk, vizier of Baghdad 127, 128

Norman conquest of England 17, 19, 44–5, 46, 48, 218

Normans in Greek service 77, 82, 108, 113–14, 116, 193–4, 262, 534

Normans in Italy and Sicily 11–12, 13–15, 46, 54, 55, 119

numbers on crusade 77, 79, 83–4, 89, 97, 112, 117, 124, 130, 134, 143, 153, 160, 179, 308, 317, 333, 374, 389–90, 398, 413, 416, 418, 433, 434, 435–6, 441, 443, 449, 472, 497, 512–14, 520–21, 525, 531, 533, 554, 621, 626–7, 635, 638, 707–8, 743, 745, 746, 747–8, 764, 775, 781, 782, 786–7, 808–10, 813, 815–16, 832, 852–3, 854–6, 867

Nur al-Din, ruler of Aleppo and Damascus 189, 193, 195, 198, 199–200, 203, 225, 268, 270, 271, 273, 330, 331, 332, 333, 343–53

al-Aqsa minbar of 345, 353

Odard, pilgrim 81

Odo, abbot of Cluny, Vita Geraldi Comitis Aurillac 41, 43

Odo, bishop of Bayeux 76, 117

Odo, duke of Burgundy 171

Odo III, duke of Burgundy 584, 587–9, 593, 622

Odo of Châteauroux, cardinal and legate 773–4, 776, 778

Odo of Deuil, chronicler 291, 295, 318, 321, 322, 325, 326, 328

Odo of St Maur-les-Fosses 42, 43

Oliver de la Marche 860–61

Oliver of Paderborn 618–19, 621, 633, 634, 638, 640, 647, 736

Oliver of Termes, Cathar sympathizer, crusader 604, 722, 774

Orderic Vitalis, chronicler 48, 214, 249–50

Ordinatio de predicatione Sancti Crucis in Angliae 387–8, 620–21

Origen of Alexandria 29, 32

Orkhan, Ottoman sultan 843, 846, 851

Osbert ‘Anglicus’ 316

Osman (Uthman), founder of the Ottoman dynasty 843

Oswald, king of Northumbria 36, 40, 41

Otho of Trazegnies 389

Othon of Grandson, Savoyard crusader 817, 820

Otto, bishop of Bamberg 678

Otto, bishop of Freising, writer 274, 278, 282–3, 287, 293, 294, 297, 304, 320, 324, 326, 328, 329, 330, 335, 336–7, 680

Otto I, king of Germany, emperor 5, 8–9, 40

Otto IV, king of Germany, emperor 582, 589, 595, 612, 619

Ottokar II, king of Bohemia 702, 704, 815

Ottoman Turks, empire of 560, 711, 826, 828–9, 834, 836–7, 843–74 passim

Oultrejourdain, lordship in Transjordan 203, 205

Outremer

in twelfth century: culture of 233–9; physical characteristics 176–8; settlement in 219–25; society of 212–40

in thirteenth century 715–33; extent of 721

Pannonhalma, massacre at (1096) 95

Palestine, partition of 152

paratge 577–8

Paris

crusade assembly at (1188) 378, 381, 387, 389, 391, 392, 485

siege of 885/6 38

Treaty of (1229) 566, 601–2

Paschal II, pope 72, 75, 170–71, 248, 249, 261, 664

Paschia de Riveri, patriarchal mistress 229

Paul, saint 30, 32, 36, 250

Paul III, pope 873, 893

Paul IV, pope 902

Paul V, pope 874

Paul Vladimiri, Polish advocate 710

Pechenegs 11–12, 61, 115

Pelagius, cardinal and legate 630–49

passim, 740

Pelayo, legendary king of the Asturias 656

Pelekanum 121, 124

Persia, Il-Khanate of 715

Peter I, king of Aragon 659, 662

Peter I, king of Cyprus 831–4, 843, 886

Peter II, king of Aragon 582, 587, 593, 594–5, 596–8, 612, 668–9

Peter III, king of Aragon 898

Peter of Alipha (or Aups) 113–14, 132

Peter Bartholomew, visionary 143–6, 152, 160

Peter of Blois 379–80, 381, 387

Peter of Bruys, heretic 580

Peter of Capuano, legate 495–6, 503, 524, 525, 528, 530, 539, 556

Peter of Castelnau, legate 581, 582

Peter Damian 70

Peter Desiderius 146, 156

Peter Garcias, heretic 567

Peter the Hermit 59, 60, 61, 71, 78–81, 83, 92, 94–100, 106, 108, 109, 138, 146, 156, 160, 282, 497

Peter of Les Vaux-de-Cernay 586

Peter Mauclerc, count of Brittany 759, 761, 762, 765, 775, 793

Peter of Montague, master of the Templars 633, 647

Peter Pitoes, bishop of Oporto 310–11, 312, 314

Peter Raymond of Hautpol 145

Peter des Roches, bishop of Winchester 624, 648, 736–7, 743, 744–5, 748, 752, 753, 759

Peter the Venerable, abbot of Cluny 245, 283

Petra 203

Pheasant, Feast and Vow of 860–61

Philaretus Brachamius of Antioch 134

Philip, bishop of Beauvais 412, 429, 466, 584, 586

Philip, duke of Swabia, king of Germany 519, 520, 538–40, 690

Philip I, the Fat, king of France 11, 62, 107, 192

Philip II, king of France 18, 252, 342, 377–8, 389–90, 391, 393, 394, 397, 470, 484, 496, 502, 508, 513, 518–19, 576, 582, 587–9, 595, 599, 604, 613, 615, 617, 622–3, 736

on the Third Crusade 403, 418, 424, 430–43, 448–55

Philip II, king of Spain 671, 902, 910

Philip III, king of France 812, 816, 818, 898–9

Philip IV, king of France 706, 743, 829–30, 841, 879, 899

Philip V, king of France 830, 835, 880–81

Philip VI, king of France 881

crusade plan of 830–31

Philip of Alsace, count of Flanders 218, 341, 360, 378, 397, 437, 440, 443, 450, 453

Philip of Aubigny 624–5, 745