Antioch (in Syria) 12, 15, 53, 61, 119, 120, 122, 126, 129, 133, 136, 175, 403, 422, 427–8, 453, 534, 536, 806, 810
battle of 146–7
Lake of, battle of (1098) 140
patriarchate of 4, 193, 197, 323
principality of 85, 111, 112, 149, 178, 187, 188, 189–96, 212–40, 273, 319, 323, 345–6, 354, 716, 721
siege of (1097–8) 59, 80, 93, 117, 120, 132–48, 155, 163, 334
apartheid 225–40
Apocalypse, the 31, 247
Arda of Edessa 202, 207
Aristotle 32, 34
Armenians 118–19, 132, 134, 135, 141, 142, 227
Arnaud Aimery, abbot of Citeaux 581, 582, 583, 584–5, 587–92, 597, 669
Arnold III, count of Aerschot 300, 308–17 passim
Arnold, bishop of Lisieux 295
Arnold of Lubeck, chronicler 392, 418, 492, 685
Arnulf of Chocques, twice patriarch of Jerusalem 117, 145, 156, 160, 169, 204
Arnulf, king of the East Franks 38
Arpin, viscount of Bourges 175
Arqah, siege of (1099) 142, 145, 150–53
Arrabit, family of 228
Arsuf 161, 179
battle of (1191) 353, 439, 458–9
Ascalon 157, 206, 330, 332, 335, 372, 722, 765, 768, 771
battle of (1099) 60, 117, 140, 141, 160, 162
capture of (1153) 344, 346
and Third Crusade 456–71
al-Ashraf Khalil, sultan of Egypt 732, 818–22
Assassins, the, Shi’ite sect 128, 198, 199, 352, 466
Athena Promachos, Phidias’s statue of 548
Athlit, Cheteau Pelerin 628, 637, 645, 648, 722, 822
Augustine of Hippo 29, 34–5, 38, 567, 583
Autun, crusade vowsat (1095) 63
Avars 36, 37
Avis, Order of 256, 667
Aymar, patriarch of Jerusalem 509, 721
al-Azimi, Aleppan chronicler 81
Al-Babayn, battle of (1167) 337, 348
Bacon, Francis, on holy war 875
Badr al-Jamali, vizier of Egypt 128
Bahram, vizier of Egypt 225
Baibars al-Bunduqdari, sultan of Egypt 351, 722, 728–9, 730–31, 797, 807, 813, 817
Baghdad 2, 173, 175, 554, 806
Abbasid caliphate, caliphs of 1, 12, 52, 53, 126, 188, 191, 195, 345, 348, 350, 353, 806
Bagrat the Armenian 134
Baha’ al-Din ibn Shaddad, writer and civil servant 235, 353, 384–5, 403, 406, 411, 414, 420, 442–3, 452, 456, 459, 464, 470, 472
Balak of Aleppo 187, 265, 271
Baldric of Borgueil, chronicler 93
Baldwin, archbishop of Canterbury 377–8, 381, 383, 385–7, 393, 395, 407, 428–30, 433, 435, 441
Baldwin, intimate, perhaps lover, of Baldwin I 202
Baldwin I, count of Edessa and king of Jerusalem 20, 82, 109, 111, 131–2, 134, 149, 161, 164, 178, 185–6, 187, 190, 195, 197, 200–205, 207, 254, 259, 357
Baldwin II, emperor of Constantinople 556, 632, 762, 783
Baldwin II, of Le Bourcq, count of Edessa and king of Jerusalem 109, 186–7, 188, 191, 194, 195, 200–201, 204–9, 221, 225, 228, 231, 264, 265, 267, 271, 346
Baldwin III, king of Jerusalem 195, 201, 207, 208–9, 212, 216, 223, 231, 331–2, 334, 335, 345, 346–7, 357
Baldwin IV, king of Jerusalem 209–11, 212, 227, 354, 356, 357–64
leprosy of 210–11, 212, 356
Baldwin V, king of Jerusalem 209, 236–7, 354, 361, 363–5
Baldwin IX, count of Flanders, emperor of Constantinople 502–3, 505, 507–8, 509, 510, 516, 518–20, 525–6, 531, 542, 550, 554–6, 559, 613, 885, 888
Baldwin of Ibelin 229, 359–60, 361, 365–6
Baldwin of Marasch 235, 268
Baldwin of Mons, count of Hainault 63
Balian of Ibelin 229, 371, 372, 429, 472
Balts, the 677, 685
al-Bara 121, 138, 140, 149, 190
Barbastro 660, 661
Bari 11–12, 14, 55, 108, 112, 537
Barisan (or Balian), founder of Ibelin family 221
Barisan of Beirut 725
Barkyaruq, Seljuk prince 128
Basil II, the Bulgar Slayer, Byzantine emperor 11, 55, 535
Bayeux Tapestry, the 76
Bayezid I, Ottoman sultan 846, 851, 853, 856–7
Bayezid II, Ottoman sultan 872
Bayt Nuba 462–4, 467–9
Beaufort, castle of 235, 404–5, 406, 407, 409, 415, 810
Bede 36, 41
Bedouin 4, 12, 226, 347, 356, 638
Bedum, Frisia 618–19
Beirut 153, 179, 221, 352, 372, 492, 495, 822
Ibelin palace at 238, 718, 730
Bela III, king of Hungary 419, 421, 434, 626
Bela IV, king of Hungary 785
Bela of Hungary 224
Belchite, confraternity of 256
Belgrade 96, 844
defence of (1456) 837, 844, 866–9
Belvoir, castle of 232, 372
