Defending the Crusader Kingdoms

This blog is dedicated to discussing the Crusader Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus. Dr. Schrader holds a PhD in History from the University of Hamburg. For more information visit: http://defenderofjerusalem.com or http://crusaderkingdoms.com

Saturday, October 25, 2025

Resurgent Frankish Presence in the Levant, 1192-1244

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With the wisdom of hindsight, the “second kingdom” of Jerusalem is usually portrayed as fragile, vulnerable and continuously tottering on...

Saturday, October 18, 2025

The Establishment of the Kingdom of Cyprus

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The Kingdom of Jerusalem had survived -- just barely. Yet it is hard to imagine this fragile kingdom, stretching along the coast from Jaff...

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Saturday, October 11, 2025

Re-Establishment of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

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The Third Crusade was over. The Kingdom of Jerusalem now had to survive on its own. Yet tragedy struck almost at once. Henri de Cha...

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Helena P. Schrader: Helena P. Schrader is a former U.S. diplomat, who earned her PhD in Modern History from the University of Hamburg. She spent roughly one-third of her life in Berlin and first explored the pivotal events of the Berlin Crisis 1948-1949 in her comprehensive non-fiction study The Blockade Breakers: The Berlin Airlift. Schrader is the author of twenty novels, twelve of which have earned one or more literary awards. Three of her books have also attained "best-seller" status on amazon, including #1 Best Seller in the categories Aviation History and Wartime Fiction.

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