God's War: A New History of the Crusades

Urban III, pope 374, 376, 417

Urban IV, pope 807, 896, 898

Urban V, pope 832, 843, 845, 889, 905

Urban VI, pope 698, 900–901

Usmah ibn Munqidh of Shaizar, raconteur 230, 233, 237–8

Valdemar I, king of Denmark 678, 681, 682, 683, 695

Valdemar II, king of Denmark 683, 692, 695–6

Valdemar IV, king of Denmark 696, 705

Valencia 20, 656, 659, 670–71

Vallembrosa, monks of 68, 72

Varangian guards 20, 82, 251, 534

Varna, crusade and battle of 847, 862–3

Vasil of Edessa 188

Vatican, the, Second General Council of the Church at 655

Veils, family of Anglo-Norman merchants 309, 310, 312

Venice, Venetians 3, 55, 179–81, 201, 402, 424, 440, 608, 615–16, 626–7, 631, 634–5, 706, 718, 727–8, 817, 820, 830, 837, 845, 854, 862–3, 866, 871

crusade of (1122–5) 265–6, 516

and Fourth Crusade 495, 501, 511–33, 537–56, 639

Treaty of (1201) 509, 510–16, 520–21, 540, 542

Vetheman of Roskilde, confraternity of 256

Vézelay 432

assembly at (1146) 276, 278–80, 489

agreement of (1190) 440, 442, 450, 453

Vienna, siege of (1529) 873

Vienne, General Council of the Church at (1311–12) 816, 829, 837, 841

Vikings 4, 15, 22, 37, 38, 39, 40, 147, 162, 380–81

Vincent of Prague 308, 336

visions 139, 143–6, 152, 156, 618–19

Vladimir, prince of Kiev 10

Volkmar, crusade leader 80, 99

Waleran of Wavrin 859

Wales, preaching tour of 1188 385–6, 396

Walo of Chaumont-en-Vexin 107

Walter of Boissy Sans Avoir (‘the Penniless’) 79, 94, 96, 97, 98, 99

Walter of Brienne 516

Walter the Chancellor, of Antioch, chronicler 195

Walter FitzWaleran of Breteuil 95, 97

Walter von der Vogelweide 351, 478–9

Welf IV, duke of Bavaria 171, 174

Welf VI, duke of Bavaria 282, 287, 288, 292

Wenceslas, king of Bohemia 10

Wends, western Baltic Slavs 263, 292–3, 674, 676–81

Wibald, abbot of Stavelot and Corvey 292, 293, 307, 333, 680

William, archbishop of Tyre 52, 195, 209–11, 212–40 passim, 328, 330, 333–4, 337, 343 et seq., 351, 357, 358–9, 361, 641, 913

Historia 209–10, 212–40 passim, 343, 347–64, 886, 887

William, archdeacon of Paris, preacher and engineer 586, 595, 608

William, bishop of Orange 115, 145

William, ‘the Carpenter’, viscount of Melun 87, 107, 138

William, patriarch of Jerusalem 278

William I, count of Holland 627

William I, king of England 17, 44, 64, 83, 84, 116

William I, king of Sicily 251

William II, count of Nevers 171, 172, 174, 186

William II, king of England 76, 116

William II, king of Sicily 237, 374, 376, 382, 394, 402, 424, 434, 441–2

William III, marquis of Montferrat, the Elder 298, 323, 365, 371, 405, 517

William IX, duke of Aquitaine 171, 172, 173, 174–5

William of Auvergne, bishop of Paris 772

William of Beaujeu, master of the Temple 720, 821

William Brewer, bishop of Exeter 648, 744–5, 748, 752

William Caxton, printer 886

William Clito, count of Flanders 252, 255

William Ferrers, earl of Derby 412, 432

William FitzMarquis 108, 112

William of Forz 760, 768

William of Grandmesnil 114

William Hugh of Monteil 156

William-Jordan, count of Cerdagne and count of Tripoli 196–7

William the Lion, king of Scotland 382

William Longchamp, chancellor of England 393, 453, 466

William Longspee, crusader and cult figure 787, 792–3, 802, 908

William of Malmesbury, chronicler 64

William Marshal 392

William of Montferrat, the Younger 341, 360, 363, 517

William of Newburgh, chronicler 472–3

William of Norwich, blood libel of 283

William of Preaux 234

William Ricau, engineer 155

William of Rubruck, OP 798

William of Savoy, cardinal and legate 704

William of Tripoli, OP 815

William of Tudela, verse chronicler 591

William of Warenne, earl of Surrey 280, 295, 322

Winrich of Kniprode, master of Teutonic Knights 707

Wolfker of Kuffern 32

Xerigordo, disaster at (1096) 98, 119

Yaghisiyan, governor of Antioch 135, 141, 142

Ya ‘qub, Almohad leader 488

York, Jewish massacre in (1190) 438–9

Yusuf ibn Tashfin, Almoravid ruler 272, 661

Zacharias, pope 5

Zara, and Fourth Crusade 501, 519, 524, 527–33, 539, 540, 541–2, 594

Zaragoza 658–9, 664