Officers of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

Essentially these offices developed from the typical officials that existed in northern France in the 11th century, the homeland of the first kings of Jerusalem.

The constable commanded the army, paid mercenaries and judged legal cases pertaining to the military.

The constable was officially the second-in-command of the army, in which he exercised police authority and commanded a division twice as large as all others.

He led the mercenaries and was in charge of the army's horses, and distributed the spoils of a victorious battle.

[2] The office of seneschal in Jerusalem never achieved the prominence of its European counterparts but was important nonetheless.

It consisted of only a few secretaries and scribes, and never became the large administrative bureaucracy that had developed elsewhere in Europe.