Non-Western ethnicity alone did not bar social standing in Crusader Jerusalem.

Evidence

Similarly, we know of other ethnic non-Westerners, such as Armenians and Byzantines, who were significant landowners in the kingdom of Jerusalem in the twelfth century. These examples suggest that ethnicity by itself was not a bar to promotion or social status. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 198

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the modern scholarship on whether premodern societies had ‘racism’ in the modern sense — e.g., the debate over racialization vs. religious prejudice.