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, December 6, 2025

Dangerous Entanglements: The Ayyubid Alliance

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T he Second Kingdom of Jerusalem reached its pinnacle in the year 1243 . Not only were the last vestiges of Hohenstaufen rule expelled fr...

Saturday, November 29, 2025

The Barons' Crusade 1239 - 1241

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After nearly a decade of fraternal fighting, the Sultan al-Ashraf died in 1237, leaving al-Kamil the victor in the Ayyubid power-struggle...

Saturday, November 22, 2025

Civil War in the Crusader States

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Although Frederick II Hohenstaufen spent only a few months in the Kingdom of Jerusalem , his impact on the kingdom was arguably fatal. W...

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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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