Geoffrey of Sergines, sometimes known as Geoffroy of Sargines (c. 1205 – April 1269), was a French

knight A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the Pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity. Knighthood finds origins in the Gr ...

who served as

seneschal The word ''seneschal'' () can have several different meanings, all of which reflect certain types of supervising or administering in a historic context. Most commonly, a seneschal was a senior position filled by a court appointment within a royal, ...

and

regent A regent (from Latin : ruling, governing) is a person appointed to govern a state '' pro tempore'' (Latin: 'for the time being') because the monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge the powers and duties of the monarchy ...

of the

Kingdom of Jerusalem The Kingdom of Jerusalem ( la, Regnum Hierosolymitanum; fro, Roiaume de Jherusalem), officially known as the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem or the Frankish Kingdom of Palestine,Example (title of works): was a Crusader state that was establishe ...

References

* Christopher Marshall: ''Warfare in the Latin East, 1192–1291'' (''Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought.'' Ser. 4, 17). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1994, . *

Jonathan Riley-Smith Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith (27 June 1938 – 13 September 2016) was a historian of the Crusades, and, between 1994 and 2005, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge. He was a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Pro ...

: ''What were the Crusades?'' 3rd edition. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2002, . * {{Runciman-A History of the Crusades, volume=3 1205 births 1269 deaths 13th-century people of the Kingdom of Jerusalem 13th-century viceregal rulers Christians of the Sixth Crusade Christians of the Seventh Crusade Regents of Jerusalem