Commemorations of crusaders in the manuscripts of the Monastery of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem

s This article examines two Georgian manuscripts from the Monastery of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem which contain commemorations of crusaders. The documents contain information about the crusaders and the Templars, and are significant for the light they throw on relations between the crusaders and Eastern Christians. This paper demonstrates how the crusaders and Templars came to be recorded in the charters of the Monastery of the Holy Cross, Jerusalem. Crusaders and even members of the military orders often visited the monastery, offered donations and sought spiritual aid in the Eastern churches. An examination of the prosopography of those recorded at the Monastery of the Holy Cross reveals names familiar from crusader history as well as some hitherto unknown crusaders.