Knights Hospitaller, 178–180, 183
Knights Templar, 120, 170–171, 179–180, 183, 191, 195
Krak des Chevaliers, fortress of, 50, 168, 178–179
Latakia, port of, 15, 27, 33, 36, 38, 167
Lebanon, Mount, 168
Lebanon region, 14, 27, 150
London, city of, 169
Lou Lou, atabeg of Aleppo, 65, 70
Louis VII, king of France, 175–176
Mahmud, ruler of Aleppo, 62
Mahmud II, Seljuk sultan, 92, 139, 161
Malik Shah, Seljuk sultan, 22, 62–63
Mamistra, city of, 22, 33
Mamluks (Turkish slave soldiers), 30
Manbij, town of, 134
Manzikert, Battle of, 62
Mardin, town of, 91, 102, 121, 141
Marseilles, city of, 169
Mary, mother of Jesus (New Testament), 1
Mas‘ud, son of Sultan Mohammed, 139
Matar, village of, 138
Matthew of Edessa, Armenian historian and theologian, 39
Mawdud, ruler of Mosul, Turkish commander, 57–61, 90–91
Mayyafariqin, town, 88, 141
Mazoir family, 100
Melisende, queen of Jerusalem, daughter of Baldwin II, 79
Mercurius, Saint, 25, 47
Mohammed, Seljuk sultan, 57, 62, 65, 69, 74, 88, 91–92, 137–138, 142
Mohammed al-Isfahani, leader of a rebellion in Harran, 35
Montgisard, Battle of, 187
Montreal, castle of, 171, 184
Mosul, city of, 64–65, 86, 142, 161–162, 188
Munqidh dynasty. See Banu Munqidh
al-Muqaddasi, traveler and writer, 31
al-Mustarshid, caliph, 139
Nablus, council of, 120
Nasr, brother of Sultan ibn Munqidh, 51
Nazareth, town of, 154
Nicaea, city of, 21, 23
Nicholas, Saint, 1
Nile delta, 5, 30, 77, 83
Nizam al-Mulk, vizier to the Seljuk sultan Malik Shah, 62
Nizari. See Assassins
Noah (Old Testament), 80
North Africa, 53
Nur al-Din, ruler of Syria, 174–186, 194
Orderic Vitalis, chronicler, 155
Orontes River, 58, 167
Paris, city of, 169
Peter Bartholomew, first crusader, 25
Peter the Hermit, first crusader, 19
Pharos lighthouse, 180
Pisa, city of, 29, 149, 169
Pons, count of Tripoli, 113
Qalat Jabar, town of, 35, 70, 125, 140, 174, 194
Qaqun, settlement of, 148
Qus, town of, 181
Rafaniya, town of, 50
Rahba, town of, 64, 70, 88–89, 142
Rainald Mazoir, Antiochene nobleman, 110
Ralph of Caen, chronicler of the First Crusade, 46
Raqqa, town of, 35, 65
Raymond of Poitiers, ruler of Antioch, 3, 176
Raymond of Toulouse, count of Tripoli, 20, 25–27, 41
Raymond III, count of Tripoli, 190–191
Richard I, king of England, 193
Richard of Salerno, father of Roger of Salerno, 95
Ridwan, Turkish ruler of Aleppo, 33, 38–39, 52–55, 61, 63–65, 75, 141, 153, 155, 160
Robert Fitz-Fulk, Antiochene nobleman, 116
Robert Guiscard, Norman conqueror of southern Italy, 20, 33
Robert of Saint Lo, Antiochene nobleman, 109–110
Robert of Vieux-Pont, 101
Roger of Salerno, ruler of Antioch, 66–68, 72, 94–96, 101–111, 113, 117
Romanus IV Diogenes, Byzantine emperor, 62
Rugia, town of, 68
Sadaqa, father of Dubays, leader of the Banu Mazyad, 137–138, 142
Safforie, castle of, 154, 190, 191
Safwat al-Mulk, wife of Tughtakin, 87
Saint-Evroult, Abbey of, 155
Saint Peter, Church of (Antioch), 25, 75
Saint Symeon, port of, 41, 167
Saladin, sultan of Egypt, 184–193
al-Salih, Nur al-Din’s son and heir, 186, 188–189
Sanjar, brother of Sultan Mohammed, 138
Saone, castle of, 100
Sarmada. See Field of Blood, Battle of
Saruj, town of, 127–128
Sathanas, dragon, 1–5, 9
Scandalion, fort of, 149
Sea of Galilee. See Tiberias, Lake
Second Crusade. See under Crusades
Second Lateran Council, 109
Seljuk, founder of the Seljuk dynasty, 61–62
Shaizar, town of, 38, 40, 50–60, 67, 136
Shams al-Dawla, son of Ilghazi, 124–125
Shawar, Fatimid vizier, 180, 182–184
Shirkuh, Nur al-Din’s commander, 181–185, 194–195
Sicily/Sicilians, 181
Sidon, port town, 29
Silk Roads, 5, 30
Silpius, Mount, 167
Sinai Desert, 187
Sokman, Turkmen commander, 35, 90, 127
Stephen, count of Blois, First Crusade commander, 20, 24
al-Sulami, Damascene scholar, 93
Sultan ibn Munqidh, 50–60
Sultan Shah, son of Ridwan of Aleppo, 70
Taj al-Mulk Buri, son of Tughtakin, 85
Tancred of Hauteville, ruler of Antioch
actions in the County of Edessa and the Principality of Antioch, 28, 32–47, 50, 55–56, 58–59, 66, 94
actions on Crusade, 20–23
actions in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, 14, 18, 23, 28
deeds and Christian teachings, 46–47
Taranto, town of, 159
Tarsus, city, 22, 33
Taurus Mountains, 22
Tbilisi, city of, 124
Tell Danith, Battle of (1115), 68–69, 97, 107, 114, 179
Tell Danith, Second Battle of (1119), 114–118, 125
Temple, military order of. See Knights Templar
Temple of the Lord (Dome of the Rock), 171
Temple of Solomon (al-Aqsa Mosque), 171
Third Crusade. See under Crusades
Tiberias, Lake (Sea of Galilee), 85, 190
Tiberias, town of, 14, 85, 90, 154, 190–192
Tigris River, 4, 158
Tikrit, city of, 185
Timurtash, Ilghazi’s son, 136–137, 139–141
Tinnis, town of, 181
Tiridates III, king of Armenia, 131
T’oros, ruler of Edessa, 23
Tortosa, town of, 42, 167
Transjordan region, 29
Tripoli, County/city of, 167–168
events preceding the Frankish siege, 15–16
initial Frankish siege/conquest, 4, 27, 40–42, 50, 198
relations with other Frankish states, 41–48, 66, 68, 84, 113–114, 121, 126, 145
war/diplomacy with Turks/Fatimids, 40, 58, 149, 179, 183, 190, 192
Tughril, Seljuk sultan, 62
Tughtakin, Turkish ruler of Damascus
career pre–First Crusade, 87–88
internal affairs in Damascus and reputation, 88, 93–94
war/diplomacy with the Fatimids, 84, 149, 152–153
war/diplomacy with the Franks, 66, 84–85, 88, 90, 92–94, 96, 102, 112, 114, 116, 126, 134, 142, 145, 147–149, 152–154
war/diplomacy with the Seljuk sultan/Turks, 66–71, 85–90, 102, 117, 142–143
Turbessel, town of, 133
Turcopoles, 110
Turkmen, 37, 61, 65, 83, 90, 97, 101–107, 112–113, 124, 126–127, 134, 154, 173
Tutush, brother of Seljuk sultan Malik Shah, 63, 87, 90, 160
Tyre, city of, 148–154, 169–170, 198
Umayyad dynasty, 31
Urban II, pope, 19
Usama ibn Munqidh, Arab nobleman and writer, 54, 56, 79, 108
Venice, 29, 149–150, 169
Walter the Chancellor, Antiochene chronicler, 107, 111
William, archbishop of Tyre, chronicler, 183
William Jordan, count
of Cerdanya, 41–43
Yovhannes Kozern, Armenian hermit, 131
Zangi, Turkish ruler of Syria, 160–163, 172, 174, 185, 186–187
Zardana, town of, 39, 68, 98–99, 112, 124–126, 136
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