ABSTRACT
Anumber of burial sites are known within and without the walls of Jerusalem(Figure 20.1).1 The medieval class structure, so evident in feudal life, found itscounterpart in the segregation of the dead. Kings and queens were buried ad sanctos (among the holy), specifically in the two most holy Christian burial sites: the Holy Sepulchre and the Tomb of the Virgin Mary. Other members of the royal family were probably buried nearby as were more important nobles. For example, not far from the royal tombs, just outside the portals of the church, is the tomb of the knight Philip d’Aubigné. Members of ecclesiastical communities, monasteries and military orders were buried in the churchyards or in special cemeteries, lesser nobles and burgesses were buried in burial grounds outside the walls, and the poor, pilgrims and those who died in the hospitals were buried in charnel houses.
