ABSTRACT
Jerusalem was the administrative capital of the kingdom but it was also a city in itsown right. Thus, not only the agents of state government but also those of municipal administration were located here. The king held the dual role of ruler of the kingdom and feudal lord of Jerusalem. The patriarch held a similar double role; on the one hand he was the highest religious authority in the kingdom, and on the other he was also the civic administrator of the Patriarch’s Quarter. The main instrument of state government located in Jerusalem, the high court (Haute Cour), had a secondary role as an instrument of city government, making local as well as national decisions and passing legislation concerning the population of the entire kingdom as well as legislation appertaining directly to the population of Jerusalem.
