JERUSALEMITE and ANTIOCHITE Character Names for Kingdoms

[finneys13]

Start year is 1174

Faction: Kingdom of Jerusalem and Principality of Antioch
Status: Completed
Total Names: 249
Authors: finneys13

Alright then, made the list, using the book 'God's War - A History of the Crusades' by Tyerman, and then translating names into French, German, Italian, etc.

As you will see, most of the fore- and surnames are French, but a few Italian, German, English, Armenian and even single Danish and Norwegian names managed to get into the list. Which shows the national breakdown of the Crusader States pretty well I think.

There are about 100 or so forenames, 129 surnames and 20 female names, if needed, a few more female names can be stolen from the French namelist.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Male names:

Aaron
Abbon
Adhémar
Adolphe
Aimery
Aimery
Alain
Albert
Alphonse
Amadeus
Amalfi
Amaury
Amaury
Amaury
Ambroise
Anselme
Arnaud
Arnoul
Arnoul
Arpin
Baldric
Baudouin
Baudouin
Baudouin
Baudouin
Baudouin
Balian
Benoît
Bernard
Berthier
Bertrand
Bohémond
Bohémond
Bohémond
Bohémond
Bohémond
Burchard
Charles
Conon
Conrad
Conrad
Daimbert
Emicho
Engelbert
Étienne
Eudes
Eustache
Everard
Foulque
Frédérick
Gaston
Gedefroy
Gérard
Gérard
Gérard
Gilbert
Godefroy
Godric
Gormond
Gottscalk
Gratien
Guigues
Guillaume
Guillaume
Guy
Guy
Guy
Henri
Heraclius
Herve
Hervé
Hubert
Hugues
Hugues
Humbert
Jacques
Jean
Jean
Joscelin
Jourdain
Louis
Louis
Mabel
Manasses
Onfroi
Otto
Philippe
Pierre
Pons
Rainald
Rainer
Rainulf
Raoul
Raymond
Reynald
Reynald
Richard
Robert
Roger
Roger
Siegebert
Sigurd
Simon
Sverre
Sweyn
Tancrède
Thibaut
Thierry
Thomas
Thoros
Tibériade
Walter
Welf

Surnames:

d'Aarschot
d'Aguilers
d'al-Atharib
d'Alep
d'Alignan
d'Amboise
d'Anjou
d'Ansa
d'Antioche
d'Arbissel
d'Artois
d'Asch
d'Aversa
d'Avesnes
d'Avranches
d'Édessa
d'Esch
d'Étampes
d'Ibelin
de Barres
de Basse-Lotharingie
de Béarn
de Beaujeu
de Bellême
de Béthune
de Beyrouth
de Blois
de Blois
de Borgueil
de Bouillon
de Boulogne
de Boulogne
de Bourges
de Brienne
de Caen
de Césarée
de Chabannes
de Champagne
de Chartreuse
de Châtillon
de Chaumont
de Chocques
de Chypre
de Clermont
de Courtenay
de Crascassonne
de Domfront
de Druex
de Flander
de Friaise
de Galilée
de Garlande
de Gembloux
de Glanvill
de Guînes
de Hauteville
de Hierges
de Jaffa
de Jérusalem
de la Roche
de le Bourcq
de le Puiset
de Lecce
de Lille
de Limbourg
de Limoges
de Lucca
de Lusignan
de Marseilles
de Maurienne
de Montcontour
di Monferrato
de Montfort
de Montmerle
des Moulins
de Mowbray
de Nazereth
de Nevers
de Normandie
de Orléans
de Paceo
de Poitiers
de Ramla
de Rancon
de Rheims
de Ribemont
de Rouen
de Sergines
de Sidon
de Sourdeval
de St Omer
de St Pol
de Tibériade
de Toron
de Tosny
de Toulouse
de Tournai
de Trencavel
de Tripoli
de Troyes
de Valence
de Verdôme
de Vermandois
de Vienne
de Villehardouin
di Bologna
di Brindisi
di Milano
di Salerno
di Savoia
di Sicilia
di Taranto
le Veneur
of Cornwall
of Finchale
of Howden
of Ridefort
Roupen
von Aachen
von Bayern
von Elsaß
von Flonheim
von Holstein
von Köln
von Mainz
von Ploetzkau
von Sleiden
von Trier
von Würzburg

Female names:

Adelisa
Agnes
Alice
Arda
Berengaria
Bertrada
Constance
Godehilde
Hildegard
Hodierna
Isabelle
Jeanne
Margaret
Maria
Matilda
Mélisande
Milo
Rachel
Rebecca
Sybil

[Vindahl]

Those people who would have ruled in Jerusalem and Antioch would have various French and English names, depending on where they hailed from in Europe.
Before the Crusades, they would have been Hebrews, Jews, and after they would have been mostly Arabs.

So what kind of "Jerusalemite & Antiochite" names are you looking for?

[finneys13]

The Crusaders, mostly will be French.

[Vindahl]

Isnt it just to copy the French name-list then?

[finneys13]

Not necessarily, some minor French families made it big in the Outremer, and other families had no connection at all, but the French namelist could be used as a basis.

[Shaba Wangy]

A mix of French and Siculo-Norman names would be more suited to the task.

Here is a list of Antioch's princes, regents,and Kings,

• Bohemond I 1098–1111
  • Tancred, Prince of Galilee, regent, 1100–1103; 1105–1112
• Bohemond II 1111–1130
  • Roger of Salerno, regent, 1112–1119
  • Baldwin II of Jerusalem, regent, 1119–1126; 1130–1131
• Constance 1130–1163
  • Fulk of Jerusalem, regent, 1131–1136
• Raymond of Poitiers 1136–1149 (by marriage)
• Raynald of Chatillon 1153–1160 (by marriage)
• Bohemond III 1163–1201
  • Raymond 1193–1194 (regent)
• Bohemond IV 1201–1216
• Raymond-Roupen 1216–1219
• Bohemond IV (restored) 1219–1233
• Bohemond V 1233–1251
• Bohemond VI 1251–1268

Here is one for Jerusalem
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...salemKings.png

make sure you include the names

d'Montfort
d'Esperon
d'Epernon


All these kings trace their lineages back to these two families. THIS IS IMPERATIVE!

Shaba

[Captain Blackadder]

Yes I think that it should be a mixture of French with the occasional english and german name thrown in their

[Miraj]

Broken Crescent would be interested in a detailed and exhaustive Jerusalem names list too. Currently I've got a pretty sparse KoJ names list:

faction: france

characters
Amalric
Arnold
Baldwin
Balian
Bohemund
charles
Conrad
Frederick
Fulk
Gerard
Godfrey
Guy
Henry
Hugh
Humphrey
Jobert
John
Joscelin
Raymond
Raynald
Reginald
Richard
Roger
William

surnames
Barbarossa
de Anjou
de Bouillon
de Chartres
de Chatillon
de Courtenay
de Ibelin
de le_Bourg
de Lorraine
de Lusignan
de Monteferrat
de Moulins
de Poitiers
de Ridefort
de Toroge
de Toulouse
Grenier
of Antioch
of Ascalaon
of Banias
of Bethlehem
of Cyprus
of Edessa
of Galilee
of Jaffa
of Jerusalem
of Kerak
of Nablus
of Nazareth
of Sicily
of Sidon
of Syria
of Tiberias
of Tortosa
of Tripoli
of Tyre
the Lionheart

women
Agnes
Alice
Constance
Eleanor
Ida
Isabella
Joan
Maria
Melisende
Sarah
Sibylla

[finneys13]

I doubt we would have any English names in the end, of Acre would be de Acre, etc.

Hopefully somebody comes to do this.

Have started a namelist for the Crusader states, from the book 'God's War - A History of the Crusades' by Tyerman.

[finneys13]

Alright then, made the list, using the book, and then translating names into French, German, Italian, etc.

As you will see, most of the fore- and surnames are French, but a few Italian, German, English, and even single Danish and Norwegian names managed to get into the list. Which shows the national breakdown of the Crusader States pretty well I think.

There are about 100 or so forenames, 128 surnames and 20 female names, if needed, a few more female names can be stolen from the French namelist.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Male names:

Aaron
Abbon
Adhémar
Adolphe
Aimery
Aimery
Alain
Albert
Alphonse
Amadeus
Amalfi
Amaury
Amaury
Amaury
Ambroise
Anselme
Arnaud
Arnoul
Arnoul
Arpin
Baldric
Baudouin
Baudouin
Baudouin
Baudouin
Baudouin
Balian
Benoît
Bernard
Berthier
Bertrand
Bohemund
Bohemund
Bohemund
Bohemund
Bohemund
Burchard
Charles
Conon
Conrad
Conrad
Daimbert
Emicho
Engelbert
Étienne
Eudes
Eustache
Everard
Foulque
Frédérick
Gaston
Gedefroy
Gérard
Gérard
Gérard
Gilbert
Godefroy
Godric
Gormond
Gottscalk
Gratien
Guigues
Guillaume
Guillaume
Guy
Guy
Guy
Henri
Heraclius
Herve
Hervé
Hubert
Hugues
Hugues
Humbert
Jacques
Jean
Jean
Joscelin
Jourdain
Louis
Louis
Mabel
Manasses
Onfroi
Otto
Philippe
Pierre
Pons
Rainald
Rainer
Rainulf
Raoul
Raymond
Reynald
Reynald
Richard
Robert
Roger
Roger
Siegebert
Sigurd
Simon
Sverre
Sweyn
Tancrède
Thibaut
Thierry
Thomas
Thoros
Tibériade
Walter
Welf

Surnames:

d'Aarschot
d'Aguilers
d'al-Atharib
d'Alep
d'Alignan
d'Amboise
d'Anjou
d'Ansa
d'Antioche
d'Arbissel
d'Artois
d'Asch
d'Aversa
d'Avesnes
d'Avranches
d'Édessa
d'Esch
d'Étampes
d'Ibelin
de Barres
de Basse-Lotharingie
de Béarn
de Beaujeu
de Bellême
de Béthune
de Beyrouth
de Blois
de Blois
de Borgueil
de Bouillon
de Boulogne
de Boulogne
de Bourges
de Brienne
de Caen
de Césarée
de Chabannes
de Champagne
de Chartreuse
de Châtillon
de Chaumont
de Chocques
de Chypre
de Clermont
de Courtenay
de Crascassonne
de Domfront
de Druex
de Flander
de Friaise
de Galilée
de Garlande
de Gembloux
de Glanvill
de Guînes
de Hauteville
de Hierges
de Jaffa
de Jérusalem
de la Roche
de le Bourcq
de le Puiset
de Lecce
de Lille
de Limbourg
de Limoges
de Lucca
de Lusignan
de Marseilles
de Maurienne
de Montcontour
de Montferrat
de Montfort
de Montmerle
des Moulins
de Mowbray
de Nazereth
de Nevers
de Normandie
de Orléans
de Paceo
de Poitiers
de Ramla
de Rancon
de Rheims
de Ribemont
de Rouen
de Sergines
de Sidon
de Sourdeval
de St Omer
de St Pol
de Tibériade
de Toron
de Tosny
de Toulouse
de Tournai
de Trencavel
de Tripoli
de Troyes
de Valence
de Verdôme
de Vermandois
de Vienne
de Villehardouin
di Bologna
di Brindisi
di Milano
di Salerno
di Savoia
di Sicilia
di Taranto
le Veneur
of Cornwall
of Finchale
of Howden
of Ridefort
Roupen
von Aachen
von Bayern
von Elsaß
von Flonheim
von Holstein
von Köln
von Mainz
von Ploetzkau
von Sleiden
von Trier
von Würzburg

Female names:

Adelisa
Agnes
Alice
Arda
Berengaria
Bertrada
Constance
Godehilde
Hildegard
Hodierna
Isabelle
Jeanne
Margaret
Maria
Matilda
Mélisande
Milo
Rachel
Rebecca
Sybil

So critique away.

[Miraj]

Great job Finneys!

Though while the list is perfect, I was wondering if it would be more user friendly to use names like "Baldwin" insteaed of "Baoudouin". I'm not asking you to change your list, but asking to discuss that if Broken Crescent anglicizes some of the names are we totally off the mark, or is it sort of acceptable? Though I agree that all the "of X" should be "de X".

[finneys13]

Depends on if you want historical accuracy or not. I would recommend using my list, rather than using Anglicisations, as Jerusalem was largely a French colony.

And most if not all of those names would be pronounced in French almost the same as they are pronounced in English, even Baudouin and Baldwin are very close.

I can see your point Anglicising very 'foreign' looking names, but French and English names are very similar, I would leave the list as it is. Nobody has complained yet about the Scottish or Polish names, which, if you look at them, look very 'foreign' and pretty unpronounceable if you don't speak a Gaelic language or Polish respectively.

Use any of the other lists if you want, Byzantium, Turks, etc., but remember playing with the proper names of factions does make the faction more unique and helps the game superficially.

[wandervogel]

I think the names lists with very "foreign" looking names are the best. My favorite is the Scottish names. It looks so unusual, but very authentic which I'm sure it is from what I've read in the Scots names thread. I wouldn't change the above list.

[Miraj]

Ahh, okay. I agree with you then. I'll keep this names list. Better to keep it like it was in reality since, like you said, this was essentially a french kingdom. Most of the names are quite pronouncable anyways, although thats probably because I'm Canadian .

[otark]

@finneys13
"Amalfi" is (and had been) an Italian town. Are you sure it is a name?

[finneys13]

Yes, yes it was, I'm sure of it.

[Lord Wellington]

de Monteferrat

Only a thing finneys13, this name isn't French but Italian. So it would be right to write it as "di Monferrato".
As you know this surname belonged to the illustrious marquises of the Monferrato, that take the name from the lands that ruled. For example Corrado di Monferrato was crowned King of Jerusalem after the deposition of King Guy de Lusignan at the end of the Third Crusade.
I hope you'll correct the name.

P.S.
Concerning Outremer, the majority of the noble families that lived there were all French and Italian. There was also a minority of English and Germans.
For example the family of Ibelin, that boast illustrious member as Balian and Baldwin d'Ibelìn, was an Italian family originally come from Pisa.

[finneys13]

Don't know how that one slipped by, now fixed.

If that is all you see wrong, excellent.

I tried to give mostly French names, with Italian names next and then some English, German, etc., hopefully reflecting the Outremer properly.