The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

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by Thomas Asbridge


  Advocate of the Holy Sepulchre, 103

  Arsuf assault by, 123

  bear attacks, 60

  bleak initial prospects of, as ruler of

  Jerusalem, 116

  contested nature of elevation of, 116

  illness and death of, 117–18

  pre-emptive strike against al-Afdal’s (vizier’s) Fatimids by, 104–5

  regal title forgone by, 116

  Godfrey, bishop of Langres, 219

  Golan Heights, 136

  Golden Horde, 614, 627, 628, 639

  Golgotha, 90

  Great Siege of Acre, see Acre: Great Siege of

  Greek fire, 99, 413, 414, 417, 433, 595, 629, 632, 654, 595, 629, 632, 654

  new version of, 418–19

  Greeks, 19, 23, 27, 36, 44, 48, 52, 73, 75, 138, 142

  Bohemond blackens name of, 143

  dominion of, over Asia Minor, 63

  Latakia retained by, 137–8

  little contributed by, 171

  marriage between Armenians and, 177–8

  Gregory VII, Pope, 522

  Christian tradition reinterpreted by, 16

  early great military enterprise planned by, 16

  exile of, 10

  sacred violence sanctioned by, 16–17

  ‘supreme authority’ view espoused by, 10

  Gregory VIII, Pope, 370

  Audita Tremendi encyclical of, 370–1

  Gregory IX, Pope, 567, 571, 572

  Gregory X, Pope, 649

  Grousset, René, 454, 673

  Guibert of Nogent, 109, 110

  Gulf Wars, 677

  Gumushtegin, 289, 293–4, 295, 304, 317

  Guy of Lusignan (later King Guy of Jerusalem), 323–4, 326–7, 328, 332, 379, 430, 474

  capture of, 351, 435

  Conrad’s rivalry with, 435–6, 448, 493

  crowning and anointing of, 342

  at Great Siege of Acre, see Acre: Great Siege of

  Jerusalem crown lost by, 494

  Raymond reconciled with, 344

  release of, 398

  rift between Baldwin IV and, 329

  right of, to Jerusalem throne, 435–6

  Saladin’s 1187 invasion of Palestine and, see Palestine: Saladin’s 1187 offensive against

  Saladin’s audience with, 351–2

  status-loss compensation for, 494

  hadith, 24, 25

  Haifa, 118, 121, 126–7, 354, 401, 423, 425, 462, 463

  Tancred reinstated as lord of, 150

  Hainaut, 403

  Hakim, Mad caliph of Egypt, 28

  Hama, 192, 292, 306, 338

  Hamas, 679

  Harim, 240, 242, 243, 252, 254, 258–9, 260, 270, 306, 618, 643

  Harran, 500

  Battle of, 138–40, 166

  Hartmann of Dillingen, Count, 79

  Hattin, 347

  Battle of, 343–53, 363, 370, 371, 378, 435, 513, 631, 663, 677

  Horns of, 350, 353

  Hauran, 136, 247, 344

  Hebron, 505

  Hellespont, 382, 420

  Helmold of Bosau, 211–12

  Henry I of Cyprus, 568

  Henry II of Champagne, 385, 415, 417, 449, 468, 472, 492, 494, 504, 510, 512

  death of, 538

  titular monarch, 496, 510

  Henry II of England (formerly Henry of Anjou), 323, 345, 369–70, 376, 377–8, 379, 380, 382–4, 385, 390, 448

  death of, 383

  Eleanor marries, 369

  Saladin Tithe’s gains for, 386

  Henry II of Jerusalem, 653, 655

  Henry III of England, 570, 577–8, 580, 640

  Henry VI of Germany and Sicily, 381, 522

  Henry VII of Sicily, 551

  Henry of Albano, Cardinal, 372

  Henry of Anjou, see Henry II of England

  Henry of Germany, Prince, 213

  Henry the Lion, 381

  Henry the Younger, 376

  death of, 377

  Heraclea, 60

  Heraclius, patriarch of Jerusalem, 342, 356, 360

  Herman of Salza, 564, 566–7

  Hethum, king of Cilician Armenia, 616

  Hezbollah, 679

  Hijaz, 18

  Hisn Kifr, 258

  Hohenstaufen dynasty/empire, 198, 381, 522, 551, 562

  Gregory IX’s disdain for, 567

  papacy’s open warfare against, 577

  see also Frederick I of Germany; Frederick II of Germany

  Holy Sepulchre, Church of, 28, 90–1, 104, 161, 175, 185–6, 361–2, 512, 569, 570, 575, 645

  Fulk’s plea for forgiveness at, 5

  Godfrey becomes Advocate of, 103

  homosexuality, 412

  Homs, 192, 193, 248, 292, 334, 618

  Honorius III, Pope, 536, 551, 559–60, 563, 564

  death of, 567

  Hospitallers (Hospital of St John), 169–71, 185, 271, 344, 353, 386, 463, 468, 489, 541–5, 560, 568, 572, 576, 595, 634–5, 641–2, 650, 655, 658

  at Great Siege of Acre, 400

  political influence of, 170

  supranational nature of, 170, 663

  see also Krak des Chevaliers; Templars

  House of Sorrow, see Jacob’s Ford

  Hubert Walter, bishop of Salisbury, 415, 425, 512

  Hugh III of Burgundy, Duke, 323, 431, 448, 449, 451, 454, 460, 461, 468, 579, 491, 492, 494, 496, 503, 508, 510

  Richard I’s right to command acknowledged by, 456

  rumour spread by, 495

  Hugh of Brulis, 132

  Hugh of Falchenberg, 119, 127, 133

  Hugh of Lusignan, 131, 632, 634

  Hugh of Payns, 168, 199

  Hugh of Vermandois, 210

  Hülegü Khan, 615–18, 620

  Humphrey of Toron, 260, 328, 342, 435–6, 483, 493, 512

  Hungary, 218, 382, 534, 551, 615

  Ibelin dynasty, 323, 539

  Iberia, 8, 12, 20, 27, 43, 152, 197, 200, 211, 212, 213, 541, 663

  Ibn al-‘Arabi, 28

  Ibn al-Athir, 102, 112, 238, 260, 282, 287, 335–6, 341, 355–6, 363, 395, 409, 486, 490–1, 515

  Ibn al-Khayyat, 113

  Ibn al-Muqaddam, 289, 290–1, 292, 294, 309–10

  Ibn al-Qalanisi, 112

  Ibn al-Qaysarani, 226, 237, 262

  Ibn al-Zaki, 362–3

  Ibn ‘Asakir, 262

  Ibn Jubayr, 181–2, 250, 262, 330–1

  Ibn Qudama, 341

  Iftikhar ad-Daulah, 94, 95, 98, 102

  Il-ghazi of Mardin, 157, 163, 164, 165, 240, 242, 243

  death, 167

  tolls abolished by, 183

  Imad al-Din al-Isfahani, 261–2, 263, 286, 290, 297–8, 308, 309, 333, 334, 352, 353, 358–61 passim, 362, 392, 397, 403, 411, 426

  truce document penned by, 512

  Imad al-Din Zangi, 289, 318, 320, 321–2, 333, 334, 499

  In Praise of the New Knighthood (Bernard of Clairvaux), 169

  Inab, Battle of, 239–44, 245, 368

  Innocent II, Pope, 200

  Innocent III, Pope, 521–6, 528, 531–5, 541, 550–1, 552, 554, 659, 662

  Albigensian Crusade launched by, 532

  death of, 535, 536, 551

  Fifth Crusade proclaimed by, 533

  Fourth Crusaders ignore

  Constantinople prohibition of, 531

  management and operation of holy war refined by, 523–4

  new (Fourth) crusade envisaged by, 524

  Innocent IV, Pope, 577 new crusade proclaimed by, 577

  Iran, 19, 20, 22, 191, 614, 615

  Iraq, 1, 19, 20, 22, 114, 154, 181, 191, 193, 228, 244, 248, 258

  see also Baghdad; Mesopotamia

  Isa (jurist and imam), 274, 332, 338

  death of, 411

  Isa (swimmer), 417

  Isaac II Angelus, emperor of Byzantium, 382, 393, 529

  Isaac Comnenus, 429–30

  Isabella II, queen of Jerusalem, 539, 565, 567–8

  Isabella of Jerusalem, 301, 3
28, 342, 435–6, 493, 538

  Henry marries, 496

  Islam:

  Abbasid dynasty within, 20, 21–2, 623

  fragmentation of, 27

  Almoravids among, 27

  appetite for conquest demonstrated by, 18–19

  bifurcated world as described by, 25

  Burid dynasty within, 190, 192, 236, 246–8

  Byzantium’s quarrelsome respect for, 27

  caliphs in, 18, 20

  ‘Rightly Guided’, 19

  Christian Europe and, on eve of Crusades, 26–9

  coexistence of Christians and followers of, see Outremer: life in

  continued unabated commerce between Christendom and, 331

  ‘Crusader–Zionist’ alliance against, 676, 677

  crusades profoundly affected by disarray within, 22

  early history of, 17–20

  emergence of Shi‘ia sect of, 20

  Fatimid dynasty within, 20, 21–2, 23, 56, 71, 266

  fragmentation of world of, 20–3

  Isma‘ili Order within, 156, 645

  Jerusalem’s immutable, historical link with, 91

  jihad cause reawakened in, 1

  Koran’s explicit demand for spread of, 18

  little post-Crusade response from, 225

  modern parallelism and, 675–7

  modern, and shadow of Crusades, 674–5

  Near Eastern, Sunni–Shi‘ite schism sunders, 71

  Nizari sect within, 156

  punishments for sex between Christians and followers of, 178

  religious and political divisions in, 19–21

  Saladin’s scattered authority over, 339

  Second Crusade countered by, 232–7

  Shi‘ia sect contests Sunni authority within, 20

  spreading influence of, 19

  style and practice of warfare by, 23–4

  ‘submission’ definition of, 18

  turbulent disarray of Sunni version of, 22

  Turks’ coming transforms, 21

  Umayyad dynasty within, 19, 230

  coup ends rule of, 20

  Urban’s demonising characterisation of, 36–8

  Urban’s dire warning concerning, 33

  warfare and jihad, late 11th century, 23–6

  Ismail of Damascus, 574, 575

  Ismat (Saladin’s wife), 231, 296–7

  death of, 297n

  Israel, 675, 676, 678

  Istanbul, see Constantinople

  Italy, 6, 8, 143, 144, 183, 206, 208, 369, 381, 555, 651–2

  Bohemond’s rapturous arrival in, 143

  crusader envoys’ ill-fated treaty with, 527–8, 528–9, 531

  fighting aristocracy of, 43

  mercantile fleet of, 7, 172

  Norman Sicilian aggression in, 208

  Normans of, 45, 57, 70, 215–16

  northern, Frederick I and, 369, 381

  polities in, 7

  seaborne merchants of, 7

  southern, Gregory IX’s invasion of, 571

  southern, Norman conquest of, 44

  southern, seizure of by Muslims, 8

  see also Rome

  Ivanhoe (Scott), 671

  Izz al-Din, 317, 320, 321, 332, 333, 334, 397

  Jabala, 179, 396

  Jackson, David, 335

  Jacob’s Ford (House of Sorrow), 311–15

  Jacobites, 104

  Jaffa, 95, 117, 121, 128–9, 131, 132, 354, 393, 457, 479–80, 488, 538, 569, 631, 635

  Baldwin I’s flight to, 133

  crusaders’ rebuilding of, 480

  Louis IX’s refortification of, 607

  Richard I arrives at, 476, 479

  Saladin orders demolition of, 423, 476

  Saladin’s strike force against, 510–11

  Third Crusade stalls at, 480

  war council at, 479

  James II of Aragon, 651, 652

  James of Avesnes, 385, 403, 407, 417, 418, 472

  death of, 474

  James of Vitry, 534, 536, 538, 545, 551–2, 556, 559

  Damietta’s Muslim children baptised by, 558

  Jazira, 258, 281, 320, 321, 322, 499, 500

  al-Afdal’s exile in, 540

  al-Ashraf installed as regional emir in, 540

  Jazirat, 423

  Jazr, 152, 165

  Jean of Ibelin, 538–9, 568, 572

  Jericho, 127

  Jerusalem, 93

  al-‘Arabi’s description of, 28

  al-Afdal (vizier) seizes, from Turks, 89

  Aqsa mosque (Temple of Solomon) in, 91, 101, 111, 180, 187, 262, 362, 506–7, 570, 624

  Baldwin of Boulogne declared new ruler of, 119

  Calvary chapel in, 185–6

  capture of (638 ce), 19

  Church of Our Lord (Templum Domini) in, 362

  Damascus Gate in, 92, 97, 375

  dangerous undermanning in, 490

 

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