Defending the Crusader Kingdoms: Balian of Beirut

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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...

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

The House of Ibelin - Balian of Beirut, 1207 - 1247

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The “Old Lord” of Beirut’s oldest son and heir, although named for his famous grandfather Balian, was like neither his wise father nor his...

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Saturday, May 23, 2020

Balian of Beirut: Part II

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Balian, the Lord of Beirut’s eldest son and heir, was the head of the Ibelin family in the fourth generation of the House. He was a gra...

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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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