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Primary Sources on the
Crusades
First Crusade
Eyewitness
accounts of the First Crusade
Siege
of Antioch from Peter Tudebode's Historia de Hierosolymitano Itinere
Letters
of the Crusaders Written from the Holy Land
Early Crusader States
Contemporary
reactions to the foundation of the Templars
The
Siege of Tyre in 1111-12, according to the Chronicle of Ibn Al-Qalanisi
Hugh
‘The Sinner’: Letter to the Knights of Christ in the Temple at
Jerusalem
The
Siege of Ascalon (1153)
Letter
from Aymeric, Patriarch of Antioch, to Louis VII, King of France (1164)
The Battle of Hattin and
the Third Crusade
The
Battle of Hattin from a Muslim source
Naval
Battle off of Acre (1190)
Itinerary
of Richard I and others to the Holy Land, by Richard of Holy Trinity,
(once ascribed to Geoffrey of Vinsauf) (PDF)
The
Chronicle of Richard of Devizes (PDF)
Two
accounts of the conquest of Cyprus by Richard I (1191)
Fourth Crusade
The
Sack of Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade
Robert
of Clari's account of the Fourth Crusade
Selected
texts concerning the Fourth Crusade
Letters
of Innocent III concerning the Fourth Crusade and the Latin Empire of
Constantinople
Later Crusades
Jacques
de Vitry: Sermons to a Military Order
The
Sixth Crusade (1249), according to Abu al-Faraj Gregory Bar Hebraeus
Fall of the Crusader
States
The
Mongol Invasion of the Middle East (1258-1260), according to Rashiduddin
Fazlullah
The
surrender of Gaston castle (1268), according The Catalan Rule of the
Templars
Accounts
about the Loss of Acre (1291)
Crusade
planning in the late thirteenth century
Adh-Dhababi's
Record of the Destruction of Damascus by the Mongols in 1299-1301
Crusades outside of the
Middle East
Documents
Relating to the Baltic Crusade (1199-1266)
The
Siege of Termes (1210), according to the Song
of the Cathar Wars
The
Siege of Termes (1210), according to the Historia Albigensis
The
Siege of Toulouse in 1217-18, according to The Chronicle of William of
Puylaurens
Crusading in the Later
Middle Ages
A
plan to regain the Holy Land from the Master of the Hospitallers (c.1305)
Naval
Contract by the Papacy against the Turks (1334)
The
Battle of Nicopolis in 1396, according to Johann Schiltberger
Sources
on Tamerlane (1336-1405), including the Battle of Angora (1402)
Bartolomeo
de Giano, A Letter on the Cruelty of the Turks (1438)
(PDF)
The
Siege of Constantinople (1453), according to Nicolo Barbaro
The
Siege of Constantinople (1453), according to George Sphrantzes
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