CAST OF CHARACTERS AS OF 1172

Royal House of Kingdom of Jerusalem, Aka Outremer

Baldwin III, King of Jerusalem, deceased 1163; uncle of Henry II, King of England

Amalric, King of Jerusalem; Baldwin’s brother

Maria Comnena, Queen of Jerusalem; great-niece of Manuel Comnenus, the Greek emperor of what is today known as Byzantium

Sybilla, daughter of Amalric and Agnes de Courtenay, b. 1159

Baldwin, son of Amalric and Agnes de Courtenay, b. 1161

Isabella, daughter of Amalric and Maria Comnena, b. 1172

Nobility of Kingdom of Jerusalem

Baudouin d’Ibelin, Lord of Ramlah and Mirabel

Richilda, Baudouin’s wife

Esquiva and Etiennette, their daughters

Balian d’Ibelin, Lord of Ibelin; Baudouin’s younger brother

Hugh d’Ibelin, their elder brother, deceased 1169

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Renaud (Denys) de Grenier, Lord of Sidon

Agnes de Courtenay, his wife; mother of Baldwin and Sybilla; daughter of the Count of Edessa, who died in a Saracen dungeon

Joscelin de Courtenay, brother to Agnes; son of the Count of Edessa

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Humphrey de Toron, constable of the kingdom

Philippa, a princess of Antioch; Humphrey’s wife

Humphrey de Toron, the constable’s son, recently deceased

Stephanie de Milly, widow of the constable’s son; heiress to Outrejourdain

Humphrey de Toron, their young son

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Eschiva, Princess of Galilee

Hugues, her eldest son and heir

William, Odo, and Raoul, his younger brothers

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Miles de Plancy, seneschal of the kingdom

Guyon, Lord of Caesarea; cousin to Lord of Sidon

Gautier, Guyon’s brother and heir

Walter de Brisebarre, Lord of Blanchegarde

Guidon de Brisebarre, Walter’s brother

Mary de Brisebarre, their sister

Amaury de Lusignan, French lord newly arrived in Outremer

Churchmen of Kingdom of Jerusalem

Emeric de Nesle, the patriarch

Lethard, Archbishop of Nazareth

Joscius, Bishop of Acre

William, Archdeacon of Tyre

Eraclius, Archdeacon of Jerusalem

Military Orders

Odo de St. Amand, grand master of the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, better known as the Knights Templar

Jobert, grand master of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, better known as the Knights Hospitaller

Jakelin de Mailly, Templar knight

Principality of Antioch

Bohemond, Prince of Antioch; cousin to King Amalric and the Count of Tripoli

Mary, Bohemond’s sister; wed to Manuel Comnenus, emperor of the Greeks

Reynald de Chatillon; wed to Bohemond’s mother, Princess Constance, now deceased

County of Tripoli

Raymond de St. Gilles, Count of Tripoli; cousin to King Amalric and Prince Bohemond

Saracens

Nūr al-Dīn Mahmūd b. Zangī, ruler of Egypt and Syria

al-Sālih Ismail b. Nūr al-Dīn, Nūr al-Dīn’s young son and heir

al-Malik al-Nāsir Salāh al-Dīn Abū al-Muzaffar Yūsuf b. Ayyūb, Nūr al-Dīn’s vizier in Egypt, known to history as Salāh al-Dīn or Saladin, called Yūsuf by family

al-Malik al-‘Ādil, Saif al-Dīn Abū Bakr Ahmad b. Ayyūb, Saladin’s younger brother, best known as al-‘Ādil, called Ahmad by family

Taqī al-Dīn, al-Malik al-Muzaffar ‘Umar b. Shāhanshāh b. Ayyūb, nephew to Saladin and al-‘Ādil, called ‘Umar by family

Farrukh-Shāh, ‘Izz al-Dīn Da’ud b. Shāhanshāh b. Ayyūb, Taqī al-Dīn’s younger brother, called Da’ud by family

European Rulers

Henry II, King of England

Eleanor of Aquitaine, his queen

Louis Capet, King of France

William, King of Sicily

Frederick, Holy Roman Emperor

Philip, Count of Flanders