Christians of the Crusades

Joanna of Châtillon or Joan, French: Jeanne; (c. 1285 – 16 January 1354) was the wife of Walter V of Brienne (1305).

Bernard II (c. 1140 – 30 April 1224) was Lord of Lippe from 1167 through 1196.

Julian Grenier (died 1275) was the Count of Sidon from 1239 to 1260, then becoming merely titular.

Saint Albert Avogadro, commonly known as St.

Simeon Uroš Nemanjić, nicknamed Siniša (Serbian Cyrillic: Симеон Урош Синиша Немањић), also known in Greek as Symeōn Ouresēs Palaiologos (Συμεών Ούρεσης Παλαιολόγος), was the Tsar of Epirus from 1359 to 1366, and of Thessaly from 1359 until his death in 1370.

Humphrey I of Toron (Onfroy de Toron), a Norman, appears initially in 1115 as a vassal of Josselin de Courtenay, prince of Tiberias; the castle at Toron having been built in the years after 1105, he most likely was its lord from that date, having taken part in the First Crusade.

Melisende of Tripoli (fl. around 1160) was the daughter of Hodierna of Tripoli and Raymond II, count of Tripoli.

Pagan the Butler (French: Payen le Bouteiller) (died 1148) was a Crusader lord in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Baldwin II of Mons (1056–1098?) was count of Hainaut from 1071 to his death.

Count Engelbert I of Berg (d. July 1189 in Serbia) ruled the County of Berg from 1160 to 1189.

Peter the Hermit (also known as Cucupeter, Little Peter or Peter of Amiens; c. 1050 – 8 July 1115) was a priest of Amiens and a key figure during the First Crusade.

Hugh of Saint Omer (also Hugh of Falkenberg or Hugh of Fauquembergues, died 1106) was the Prince of Galilee and Lord of Tiberias from 1101 to his death.

Maria Komnene or Comnena (Greek: Μαρία Κομνηνή, Maria Komnēnē) (c. 1154 – 1208/1217) was the second wife of King Amalric I of Jerusalem and mother of Queen Isabella of Jerusalem.

Alexander of Zweibrücken (German: Pfalzgraf Alexander von Zweibrücken "der Hinkende") (26 November 1462 – 21 October 1514) was Count Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken and of Veldenz in 1489–1514.

Andrieu Contredit d'Arras (c.1200–1248) was a trouvère from Arras and active in the Puy d'Arras.

Ulrich II (died 31 October 1221) was the 34th Bishop of Passau from 1215 and the first prince-bishop from 1217.

William Briwere (sometimes Brewer or de Briwere; died 1244) was a medieval Bishop of Exeter.

Philip of Novara (c. 1200 – c. 1270) was a medieval historian, warrior, musician, diplomat, poet, and lawyer born at Novara, Italy, into a noble house, who spent his entire adult life in the Middle East.

John (Jean) de Poitiers-Lusignan (? - 7 August 1343) was Constable and later Regent of Lesser Armenia (Cilicia).

Juan Fernández de Heredia (in Aragonese Johan Ferrández d'Heredia, pronounced IPA: [ˈtʃwan feˈrand̪eθ deˈɾedʝa] (c. 1310 – 1396) was the Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller from 24 September 1377 to his death. His tenure was occupied by the "affair of Achaea." He was also a great patron of the translation and composition of historiographical works in the Aragonese language and a counsellor to two Kings of Aragon.

Count Palatine Wolfgang of Zweibrücken (German: Pfalzgraf Wolfgang von Zweibrücken; 26 September 1526 – 11 June 1569) was member of the Wittelsbach family of the Counts Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken 1532–1559.

Peter des Roches (died 9 June 1238) was bishop of Winchester in the reigns of King John of England and his son Henry III.

Paul (died 1371) was a Roman Catholic bishop from southern Italy who held various episcopal sees in the Latin East, before becoming titular Latin Patriarch of Constantinople.

Guglielmo Embriaco (Latin Guillermus Embriacus, Genoese Ghigærmo de ri Embrieghi, English William the Drunkard; born c. 1040), was a Genoese merchant and military leader who came to the assistance of the Crusader States in the aftermath of the First Crusade.

William II of Bures (died 1158) was a Crusader lord of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Simon II of Clermont-Nesle (c. 1210 - 1285/86) was Seigneur (Lord) of Ailly, Maulette and Nesle (in Picardy) (de).

Manegold of Berg (b. c. 1140–1150; d. 9 June 1215 in Vienna) was abbot of St.

Martino Zaccaria was the Lord of Chios from 1314 to 1329, ruler of several other Aegean islands, and baron of Veligosti–Damala and Chalandritsa in the Principality of Achaea.

Balian of Ibelin (French: Balian d'Ibelin; 1240–1302), seneschal of Cyprus, was a son of Guy of Ibelin, constable of Cyprus, and Philippa Berlais.

Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots (Latin: Malleus Scotorum), was King of England from 1272 to 1307.

Melisende (born before 1177) was the hereditary Lady of Arsuf from 1177 and the second wife of the powerful nobleman John of Ibelin, the lord of Beirut (1179–1236), who led the opposition to Emperor Frederick II when he tried to impose his authority in the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Kingdom of Cyprus.

William of Bures (died 1142) was a French crusader from Bures-sur-Yvette, Ile-de-France.

Andronikos Komnenos Kontostephanos (Greek: Ἀνδρόνικος Κομνηνός Κοντοστέφανος; ca. 1132/33 – after 1183), Latinized Andronicus Contostephanus, was a major figure in the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire during the reign of his uncle Manuel I Komnenos as a general, admiral, politician and a leading aristocrat.

Savaric fitzGeldewin (sometimes Savaric FitzGoldwin or Savaric de Bohun; died 8 August 1205) was an Englishman who became Bishop of Bath and Glastonbury in England.