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Bishop of Ascalon Index ʿAbbās (vizier of Egypt) 103 Amaury of Nesle (patriarch of Abgarus (king of Edessa) 37, 38 Jerusalem) 4, 188, 192 Absalom (bishop of Ascalon) 52 Ancona 85 Abydos 86 Antioch Acre city of 47, 56, 80, 90, 102, 110, 177, city of 70, 86, 99, 128, 129, 141, 142, 199, 200, 219 152, 154–159, 226 church of 47, 48, 52, 222 siege of 75, 114 principality of 129, 198, 199 scriptorium 127, 133, 213, 214, 218, Aquitaine 72 219, 220, 226 Arabia 97 Acre Master (see Hospitaller master) Archis (son of Canaan) 38, 39 Adelaide del Vasto 26 Arius, Arian Heresy 48, 49 al-Adid (Fatimid caliph of Egypt) 71 Arles (diocese of) 90 Adhemar (bishop of Le Puy) 63 Arnold de Torroja (Templar) 199 Adrian I (pope) 49, 50 Arnulf (archdeacon of the Holy Adrian IV (pope) 90, 100, 105, 107, 223 Sepulchre) 51 Adria 84, 85 Arnulf of Chocques (patriarch of Adriatic Sea 83, 84, 85, 86 Jerusalem) 5, 92, 93 Aegean Sea 86 Arqa 38 Agnes de Courtenay 3, 4, 16, 17, 31, 32 Asaz 45 Aichardus (dean of the Holy Assassins (see Nizārī Ismaʾilis) Sepulchre) 51 Augano (St) 100 Aimery of Limoges (patriarch of Augustinian Canons 90, 91, 92, 93, Antioch) 80 102, 103, 120, 223 Akşehir (see Philomelium) Avignon 90, 100, 223 Alberic II de Danmartin 57 Albert (bishop of Bethlehem) 200 Bahāʾ al-Dīn Ibn Shaddād 81 Albert of Aachen (Aix) 5,18, 62 Baldric of Dol 5 Albigensian Crusade 117 Baldwin I, de Boulogne (king of Alexander III (pope) 200 Jerusalem) 12, 26, 51, 53, 94, 128, 129, Alexander III the Great (king of 156, 158, 162, 163, 165, 167, 202 Macedon) 34, 39 Baldwin II, du Bourq (king of Alexander of Constantinople (St, patriarch Jerusalem) 14, 15, 34, 35, 43, 52, 111, of Constantinople) 48, 49 131, 167, 168, 224 Alexandria 96, 117, 118 Baldwin III (king of Jerusalem) 6, 16, Alexius I Komnenos (Byzantine 17, 18, 26, 44, 68, 75, 78 emperor) 63, 64 Baldwin IV (king of Jerusalem) 3, 4, 5, Alexius II Komnenos (Byzantine 6, 11, 16, 17, 18, 27, 30, 42, 75, 80, 81, 97, 215 emperor) 96 Baldwin V (king of Jerusalem) 4, 18, 80 Alexius Protosebastos 96 Baldwin Chauderon 58, 59, 82 Alfonso-Jordan (count of Toulouse) 70 Baldwin de Ghent 58, 59, 82 Amalric (bishop of Sidon) 195 Baldwin de Ramla 116 Amaury (count of Jaffa, king of Balian of Ibelin 212 Jerusalem) 2, 3, 6, 16, 17, 28, 29, 31, 32, Balian de Ramla 116 40, 71, 80, 88, 95, 104, 130, 187, 191, 192 Balkans 84, 87 Index 275 Barcelona 42, 98 Clermont 53, 222 Bari 85, 91 Cluny 110 Bedar 99 Conrad III (emperor) 67, 69, 70 Bedegne 113 Constance (princess of Antioch) 75, Bedouin 97 76, 77 Beirut 36, 138, 141, 154, 155 Constantine I the Great (Roman emperor) 48 Bernard (abbot of Mt Tabor, bishop Constantine VI (Byzantine emperor) 49, of Lydda) 187, 191 50, 66 Bernard (treasurer of the abbey Constantinople of La Corbie) 9, 88, 114 city of 62, 63, 65, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 115 Bernard of Valence (patriarch of council of 47, 48 Antioch) 52 Crusades Berri 58 First 5, 6, 12, 16, 28, 40, 42, 53, 54, 55, Bertrand de Blanquefort 56, 58, 60, 62, 63, 64, 66, 70, 71, 80, 92, (Hospitaller) 104 108, 110, 128, 224 Bethlehem Second 55, 67, 68, 69, 70, 75, 87 city of 51, 99 Third 75, 114, 223 church of 51, 52, 99, 194, 222 Fourth 11, 84, 115, 116 Black Sea 85, 86, 87 Fifth 28, 96, 117, 118, 119, 120, 224 Blanche of Castile 58 Cumans 84 Bohemond I of Taranto (prince of Cyprus 26, 78, 79, 223 Antioch) 94 Bohemond III (prince of Antioch) 130, Dacians 84 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 203, 204 Daibert of Pisa (papal legate) 5 Bologna 30 Daimbert (patriarch of Jerusalem) 41 Bosphorus 85, 86 Damascus 68, 69, 112 Boulogne-sur-Mer 56, 57, 58, 223 Damietta 95, 96, 101, 116, 117, 118, 119, 224 Boulogne, county of 57, 58, 63, 119 Dante Alighieri 45 Bouvines, battle of (1214) 19, 57 David I (king of Scotland) 159, 219 Branner, Robert 220 Delphi, Oracle of 33, 34 Bulgaria, Bulgars 83, 84, 87 Dido (queen of Carthage) 34, 154, 155, 160, 161, 165 Cairo 71, 117, 118 Duchy of Athens 116 Canaan (grandson of Noah) 39, 154, Durazzo (Durrës) 64, 85 155, 160 Canterbury 91, 96, 117 Edbury, Peter 1, 2, 12, 24, 124, 126, 132, Centule IV de Béarn 108 169, 177, 185, 212, 215, 225 Cerep 111 Edessa 37, 42 Chablais 100 Egypt 3, 29, 34, 40, 80, 94, 96, 100, 103, Chalcedon 104, 115, 116, 117, 118, 130, 131, 167, 168, 187, city of 50 191, 192, 224 council of (451) 50, 51 Einhard 33 Chanson d'Antioche 58, 59, 60, 61, 63, Eleanor of Aquitaine (queen of France and 66, 82, 224 England) 67, 68, 223 Champagne 55, 58, 60, 61 Elijah (OT prophet) 128, 140, 141, 142, Cicero 33 149, 158 Cilicia 78, 98 England 57, 60, 90, 96, 99, 102, 117, 132, Citerior Hispania 42, 98 177, 224 Claverie, Pierre-Vincent 12 English Channel 56.
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