Outremer (French: outre-mer meaning "overseas"), was a general name used for the Crusader states; it originated after victories of Europeans in the First Crusade and was applied to the County of Edessa, the Principality of Antioch, the County of Tripoli, and especially the Kingdom of Jerusalem. During the Renaissance, the term was later often equated to the area of the Levant. The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia originated before the Crusades, but it was granted the status of a kingdom by Pope Innocent III. It later became fully westernised by the French House of Lusignan.