A Compendium of Medieval World Sovereigns

PREFACE

SECTION ONE. THE BYZANTINE WORLD

Eastern Roman/ Byzantine Empire to 1204.

Latin Empire

Empire of Nicaea

Despotate of Epirus

Empire of Trebizond

Latin principalities of Achaea

Duchy of Athens

County of Cephallonia

Duchy of Naxos

Eastern Roman/ Byzantine Empire after 1261.

Despotate of the Morea and other Late Byzantine sub-states.

Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empresses.

Crusader States: Kingdom of Jerusalem

Antioch

Tripoli

Edessa

Cyprus

Cilician Armenia

Armenia and Georgia.

SECTION TWO: THE ISLAMIC WORLD

Caliphs: C7th heirs of the Prophet, then Ummayads and Abbasids.

Fatimid Caliphate of Tunisia and Egypt

(Christian states of upper Egypt/ Nubia: Makuria and Dongola)

Khorasan: Tahirids, Saffarids, Samanids

Egypt; Tulunids and Ikshidids.

Iran: Buyids.

Syria: Hamdanids, Mirdasids, Uqaylids.

Azerbaijan: Sa'dids.

Aghlabids of Tunisia

Ummayad emirate and Caliphate of Al-Andalus, Spain

Successor-states in C11th Al-Andalus.

Seljuks: Iran; Konya/ Anatolia.

Syria: Zengids

Ayyubids of Egypt and Syria

Central Asia/ Afghanistan: Khwarezm, Ghaznavids.

Yemen

Sicily; Majorca.

Morocco

Maghreb: Almoravids, Almohads.

Tunisia: Hafsids, Zirids, Wattasids.

Mongols: Great Khans (with Yuan of China)

Iran: Ilkhans

Golden Horde and other Central Asian Mongol states

Jagatai Khans; Timurids; Qaraqanids.

Late Medieval Anatolia: Dhu'l Qadir; Karamanids; Germiyan; Aydin; Sarukhan; Menteshe; Kastamonu; Kara Koyunlu; Ak Koyunlu.

Ottoman Sultanate

SECTION THREE: ASIA AND AFRICA

Medieval India: Hindu and Moslem states

Burma

Thailand

Khmer states

Vietnam

Dynasties of China: T'ang to Ming

Korea

Japan

Ethiopia

The Sahel: Kanem/ Bornu; Ghana, Mali and Songhai

Nigeria: Hausa states

Central Africa

SECTION FOUR: THE BRITISH ISLES

Britain : Anglo-Saxon England

England after 1066

Wales: Gwynedd, Powys, Dyfed/ Deheubarth, Gwent, Brycheiniog (Brecon).

Early Scotland: Picts, Dal Riada/Scots, Strathclyde.

Medieval Scotland from 844

Jarldom of Orkney

Lords of the Isles/ Hebrides

Kingdom of Man

Ireland: High Kings

Ulster; Leinster; Munster; Connacht; Viking Dublin.

SECTION FIVE: EUROPE, PART ONE, WEST.

Francia; Merovingians, Carolingians

Medieval France: Kings

; Brittany, Normandy, Anjou, Blois, Champagne, Artois, Boulogne,

Flanders, Lorraine, Alencon, Burgundy/ Arles; Aquitaine; Toulouse;

Bearn; Foix; Provence; Vienne; Franche-Comte.

Spain: Barcelona; Suevi; Visigoths; Asturias/ Leon; Leon and Castile; Aragon; Navarre.

Portugal

SECTION SIX: EUROPE, CENTRE, SOUTH AND NORTH.

Hungary

Low Countries: Brabant, Holland, Hainault.

Holy Roman Empire: Emperors.

Bavaria; Saxony; Palatinate; Hesse and Thuringia; Baden;

Wurtemmberg; Mecklenberg; Brandenburg; Brunswick and

Luneburg; Julich and Cleves; Austria.

Poland; Lithuania; Silesia.

Bohemia

Serbia; Bulgaria.

Vandal Africa.

Burgundians

Italy: Ostrogoths; Lombards; Venice; Savoy/ Piedmont; Montferrat; Milan; Modena; Mantua; Florence; Popes; Naples and Sicily.

Denmark; Norway; Sweden.

Russia: Grand Princes of Kiev/ Kiyev.

Chernigov; Smolensk; Ryazan; Galicia; Vladimir-Suzdal; Novgorod; Rostov; Yaroslavl; Tver; Moscow.

INDEX