ABSTRACT
The Latin kingdom of Jerusalem, established by the First Crusade of 1096–99, was one of what might be described as the kingdoms of conquest of the eleventh century. The events of the First Crusade through to the capture of Jerusalem on 15 July 1099 were narrated by a great number of writers. Documentary sources are the bread and butter of the prosopographer, since much more so than narrative sources they give us reasonably clear attestations of individuals at particular dates. An indirect source for personal names which emerges from documentary and narrative evidence is placenames. With the publication of a great number of sources concerning the Frankish kingdom in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the way was clear for the prosopography of the Franks to flourish.
