God's War: A New History of the Crusades

Achard of Montmerle 27

Acre 153, 205, 220, 223, 228, 237, 238, 353, 354–5, 372, 465, 520, 618, 643, 645, 717–18, 732

commune of St Andrew at 726

Council of (1148) 332

massacre at (1191) 456–7

siege of (1189–91) 354, 367, 395–6, 402–17, 428–30, 439, 442–3, 446–55, 473

siege and fall of (1291) 706, 732, 818–22

Adalia 327–8, 832

Adam Haughton, chancellor of England 911

Adela, countess of Blois 117, 122, 141, 171

Adelarius of Fleury 39

Adelisa of Sicily 207, 357

Adhemar of Chabannes, chronicler 55, 68, 69–70, 80

Adhemar, bishop of le Puy 60, 63, 64, 65, 75–6, 87, 93, 115, 116, 121, 130, 138, 141, 142–6, 148, 159, 163, 216

al-Adid, Fatimid caliph of Egypt 349–50

al-Adil, sultan of Egypt 451, 461, 463, 492–4, 547, 612, 636, 637, 643, 648, 725

Adolf, count of Holstein 305–7, 679

Aelfric of Cerne, abbot of Eynsham 40

Lives of the Saints 40–41

al-Afdal, son of Saladin 367

al-Afdal, vizier of Egypt 128, 129, 141, 152, 155, 156, 160

Afonso Henriques, king of Portugal 310–16

Agincourt, battle of (1415) 456, 856, 912

Agnes of Courtenay 209, 227, 357–62

Aigues Mortes 780–81, 783, 811, 881

Aimery of Limoges, patriarch of Antioch 193, 236, 346

Aimery of Lusignan, king of Jerusalem 361–2, 371, 405, 444–5, 490, 492–4, 723, 724–5

Ain Jalut, battle of (1260) 807

Alacazar do Sol (Al-Qasr) 627–8

Alan, lord of al-Atharib 192, 231

Alan of Lille 380

Alarcos, battle of (1195) 666

Alberic of Trois-Fontaines 502

Albert of Aachen (Aix), chronicler 60, 79, 92, 95, 98, 99, 104, 109, 157, 244, 246

Albert ‘the Bear’, margrave of Brandenberg 307, 682

Albert of Buxtehude, bishop of Riga 687, 690–93

Albert Surbeer, archbishop of Prussia and Riga 704–5

Albigensian, definition of 576

Alcantara, Order of 256, 667–8

Alcuin of York 37

Aleppo 12, 53, 187, 188, 189, 206, 268, 272, 329–30, 331, 344, 352, 353, 362, 636, 806

Alexander II, pope 54–5, 56, 104, 660

Alexander III, pope 210, 342, 682, 695

Alexander IV, pope 696, 705, 806, 898

Alexander VI, pope 698, 711, 871

Alexander Nevsky, ruler of Novgorod 696

Alexandretta 135

Alexandria 238, 402, 515–16

crusade to (1365) 831–4, 837

patriarch of 4

Alexius I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor 12, 15, 21, 59, 61–2, 69, 72, 74, 77, 81, 82, 83, 96–9, 108–16, 118– 22, 124, 125, 136, 147–8, 152, 172–3, 178, 193–4, 261–2, 325, 534, 537

Alexius II Comnenus, Byzantine emperor 517, 536

Alexius III Angelus, Byzantine emperor 490, 509–10, 515, 536, 537–9, 544–7

Alexius IV Angelus, Byzantine emperor 519, 520, 528, 532–3, 538–49, 553–4, 559

Alexius V Ducas ‘Murzuphlus’, Byzantine emperor 549–54

Alice of Jerusalem, princess of Antioch 191, 194, 200

Alice of Jerusalem, queen of Cyprus 726, 727

Alfonso I, king of Aragon 250, 253, 256, 664–5

Alfonso V, king of Aragon and Naples 865, 866

Alfonso VI, king of Leon-Castile 658–9, 660–61

Alfonso VII, king of Leon-Castile 264, 313, 665

Alfonso VIII, king of Castile 488, 666, 668–9

Alfonso IX, king of Leon 666

Alfonso X, king of Leon-Castile 671

Alfonso-Jordan, count of Toulouse 196–7, 198, 277, 280, 290, 294, 295, 329, 330, 397, 580

Alfred, king of Wessex 38, 41

Aljubarotta, battle of (1385) 901

Allenby, Edmund, British General 469, 771

Almeria 304, 665

Almohads 488, 494, 608, 612, 665–6, 668–9, 721

Almoravids 13, 250, 263, 311, 661–2, 721

Alp Arslan, Seljuk sultan 126–7

Alphonse, count of Poitiers 601, 772, 775, 779, 781, 784, 786, 788, 808, 812

Amadeus of Savoy, count of Maurienne 280, 289, 290, 298, 323

Amadeus VI, count of Savoy 832

his crusade 833, 843, 851, 852

Amalfi 71

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