The Compendium of World Sovereigns series contains three volumes: Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern. These volumes provide students with easy-to-access ‘who’s who’ with details on the identities and dates, ages and wives, where known, of heads of government in any given state at any time within the framework of reference. The relevant original and secondary sources are also listed in a comprehensive bibliography. The text provides a clear reference guide for students to who was who and when they ruled in the dynasties and other ruler-lists for the Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern worlds – primarily European and Middle Eastern but including available information on Africa and Asia and the pre-Columbian Americas. The trilogy accesses and interprets the original data plus any modern controversies and disputes over names and dating, reflecting on the shifts in and widening of focus in student and academic studies. Each volume contains league tables of rulers’ ‘records’, and an extensive bibliographical guide to the relevant personnel and dynasties, plus any controversies, so readers can consult these for extra details and know exactly where to go for which information. All relevant information is collected and provided as a one-stop-shop for students wishing to check the known information about a world Sovereign. The Medieval volume begins with the Byzantine Empire and moves through the Crusader States, the Islamic World, South and East Asia, Africa, the Mediterranean, and lastly Western and Eastern Europe. Compendium of World Sovereigns: Volume II Medieval provides students and scholars with the perfect reference guide to support their studies and to fact check dates, people, and places.
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
Biography
Timothy Venning is an independent scholar and researcher and formerly worked on the Oxford New Dictionary of National Biography. His previous books include A Chronology of the Crusades (2015) and A Chronology of Early Medieval Western Europe (2017).
