Defending the Crusader Kingdoms: Queen Maria Comnena

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

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Thursday, November 17, 2016

Isabella, Princess of Jerusalem

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Although she reigned as queen in her own right for twelve years, Isabella of Jerusalem is most often portrayed in history books an...

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Friday, August 7, 2015

Agnes de Courtenay, Wife and Mother of Kings

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Agnes de Courtenay is without doubt one of the women in the history of the Kingdom of Jerusalem who played a decisive — not to say si...

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Friday, October 3, 2014

“Ruthless and scheming” – Maria Comnena or Agnes de Courtney

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Bernard Hamilton (“Women in the Crusader States: Queens of Jerusalem 1000 - 1190” published in Medieval Women, ed. Derek Baker, Basel Bla...

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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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