This book offers a new appraisal of Godfrey of Bouillon, a leading participant in the First Crusade and the first ruler of Latin Jerusalem.

Introduction 1. Ancestry and parentage 2. Godfrey's career in the West, c.1060-95 3. The coming of the First Crusade, 1095-96 4. The First Crusade, 1096-99 5. In Jerusalem, 1099-1100 Conclusion Epilogue Bibliography

Simon John is Lecturer in Medieval History at Swansea University. He previously taught at the University of Oxford, and held a Junior Research Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research. Much of his work to date has focussed upon the crusades and their socio-cultural impact in Latin Christendom. He has published articles in the English Historical Review, the Journal of Medieval History and the Journal of Ecclesiastical History, and is the co-editor (with Nicholas Morton) of Crusading and Warfare in the Middle Ages: Realities and Representations. Essays in Honour of John France (2014).