Nur Ad-Din

Nur Ad-Din

male, deceased (1174)
al-Malik al-Adil Nur ad-Din Abu al-Qasim Mahmud Ibn 'Imad ad-Din Zangi, also known as Nur ed-Din, Nur al-Din, etc. (in Arabic: نور الدين "Nūr ad-...
Al-Kamil

Al-Kamil

male, deceased (1238)
Al-Kamil Muhammad al-Malik ; died 1238) was an Ayyubid sultan of Kurdish descent that ruled Egypt, praised for defeating two crusades but also...
Zengi

Zengi

male, deceased (1146)
"'Imad ad-Din Atabeg Zengi" was the son of Aq Sunqur al-Hajib, governor of Aleppo under Malik Shah I. His father was beheaded for treason in 1094,...
Guy Of Lusignan

Guy Of Lusignan

male, deceased (1194)
Guy of Lusignan (c. 1150 - 1194) was a French knight who, through marriage, became king-consort of Jerusalem, and led the kingdom to disaster at...
Alexios I Komnenos

Alexios I Komnenos

male, deceased (1118)
Alexios I Komnenos or Alexius I Comnenus (1048 - August 15, 1118), Byzantine emperor (1081-1118), was the son of John Komnenos and Anna Dalassena...
Shirkuh

Shirkuh

male, deceased (1169)
Asad ad-Din Shirkuh bin Shadhi (also "Shirguh" or "Sherko") (died 1169) was an important Muslim military commander, and uncle of Saladin. He was...
As-Salih Ayyub

As-Salih Ayyub

male, deceased (1249)
Al-Malik as-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub (died November 1249) was the Ayyubid ruler of Egypt from 1240 to 1249. In 1221 he became a hostage at the end...

Ilghazi

male, deceased (1122)
Ilghazi gained control of Aleppo after the assassination of Lulu in 1117. In 1118 he took control of Mayyafiriqin and pacified the surrounding...
Maria Komnene

Maria Komnene

female, deceased (1182)
Maria Komnene or Comnena was the eldest daughter of the Emperor Manuel I Komnenos by his first wife, Bertha of Sulzbach. She was known as the...
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

male, deceased (1250)
Frederick II (December 26, 1194 - December 13, 1250), of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was a pretender to the title of King of the Romans from 1212 and...