The ''Lignages d'Outremer'' ("Lineages of
Outremer") describe the pedigrees of the most important
Crusader families.
A first version was written in 1270 and is available in two manuscripts of the 14th century. A later version was produced in 1307/08, another in
Italian, 1398 (Notizie sopra i Re di Gerusalemme e di Cipro e loro parentela etc.). It was compiled by
Pierre de Flory
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(Piero de Fiorin),
viscount of Nicosia, who probably also comes from
Antioch
Antioch on the Orontes (; grc-gre, Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου, ''Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou'', Learned ; also Syrian Antioch) grc-koi, Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπ ...
, and
Simon of Jerusalem, and was probably written in
Cyprus
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. The
lineages name more than a thousand people in the different versions.
Among them are the
Ibelin Counts of Jaffa.
It is included as an appendix to ''
Recueil des historiens des croisades {{italic title
The ''Recueil des historiens des croisades'' (trans: ''Collection of the Historians of the Crusades'') is a major collection of several thousand medieval documents written during the Crusades. The documents were collected and publish ...
.''
Manuscripts
*
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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,
Paris
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(several manuscripts)
*
Bavarian State Library,
Munich
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(Codex Gallus 771)
*
Vatican Library
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(Codex Vaticanus latinus 4789 and 7806 A)
*
Biblioteca Marciana,
Venice
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(app. 20
265)
Literature
* Wilpertus H. Rudt de Collenberg: ''A fragmentary copy of an unknown recension of the 'Lignages d'Outre-Mer' in the Vatican Library''. In: ''English Historical Review'' 98, 1983, S. 311–327.
* Marie-Adélaïde Nielen-Vandevoorde: ''Un livre méconnu des Assises de Jérusalem: les Lignages d’outremer.'' In: ''Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes'' 153, 1995, S. 103-13
Full text* Marie-Adélaïde Nielen: ''Lignages d’outremer.'' Paris, Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres 2003. (Documents relating to the history of the Crusades 18)
References
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Genealogy
Texts about the Crusades
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