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Godfrey of Bouillon 18 Jul 2010 | 10:37 am
Godfrey of Bouillon (1060-1100), the French crusader was one of the principal lay leaders of the First Crusade and the first ruler of the new formed crusader state of Jerusalem. He was the second son...
Bohemond 18 Jul 2010 | 10:30 am
Bohemond (1050-1111) was the nickname, intending ‘Giant’, of Marc, firstborn son of Robert Guiscard who disinherited him afterward a second marriage. Bohemond served in Guiscard’s expedition versus By...
Raymond IV of Toulouse 18 Jul 2010 | 10:26 am
Raymond IV (1038-1105), count of Toulouse (1093-1105), leader in the First Crusade. He was as well count of Saint Gilles and marquis of Provence. The first big prince to carry the Cross, he was the ch...
Baldwin 18 Jul 2010 | 10:22 am
Baldwin (1058 – 1118), a Norman cognised earlier as Baldwin of Boulogne and a head lay leader of the First Crusade, ruled as king of Jerusalem (1100 – 1118). Baldwin conjoined the First Crusade with ...
Tancred 18 Jul 2010 | 10:16 am
Tancred (1076-1112), western Crusader in the first crusade. He got a Crusader in 1096 with his uncle Bohemond I. After distinguishing himself at Nicaea, he crossed out into Cilicia and beleaguered Tar...
William of Tyre 27 Jun 2010 | 05:14 pm
The archbishop of Tyre, chancellor of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, and historian of the last century of the kingdom before its come down to Sultan Saladin in 1187, that was William of Tyre (1130-11...
The Ninth Crusade 16 May 2010 | 11:25 am
The Ninth Crusade, which is some of the times sorted with the 8th Crusade, is generally regarded to be the final major medieval Crusade to the Holy Land. It came about in 1271–1272. Louis IX of Franc...
Eighth Crusade (1267-1272) 6 May 2010 | 02:11 am
The close major crusade aspired at the Holy Land, and an failure that well represents the end of the crusades. In the previous twenty years, the continuing crusader states had get progressively powerl...
Seventh Crusade (1248-1250) 6 May 2010 | 02:10 am
Disastrous French people crusade, led by Louis IX, a response to the deprivation of Jerusalem (1244) to the Moslems for the concluding time. The crusade was aspired at Egypt, the briny Muslim power in...
Route of Emperor Frederick II 6 May 2010 | 01:32 am
As it is debated that the Sixth Crusade was the almost successful, it was surely the most strange. The leader at this crusade was Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II. He had primitively planned on connect...
