1. My thanks are due to Benjamin Z. Kedar and the members of the workshop on the governance of the Frankish kingdom of Jerusalem held at the Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 7–12 July 1999, which considered the views of Dr Susan Reynolds, the author of Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted (Oxford, 1994). Particular gratitude is due to Jonathan Riley-Smith for reading an earlier draft of this paper.
2. “Fiefs, vassaux et servise militaire dans le royaume latin de Jérusalem,” in Le Partage du Monde: échanges et colonisation dans la Méditerranée médiévale, ed. Michel Balard and Alain Ducellier (Paris, 1998), pp. 141–50.
3. Now re-edited in Peter W. Edbury, John of Ibelin and the Kingdom of Jerusalem (Woodbridge, 1997), pp. 118–24.
4. Tabulae Ordinis Theutonici, ed. Ernst Strehlke (Berlin, 1869). Reprinted with a new introduction by Hans E. Mayer (Toronto, 1975). Hereafter cited as Strehlke.
5. WT.