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

Friday, August 28, 2015

Defender of Jerusalem: The True Story of Balian d'Ibelin

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Hollywood made him a blacksmith; Arab chronicles said he was "like a king." He served a leper, but defied Richard the Lio...

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Friday, August 21, 2015

Sibylla of Jerusalem: Devoted Wife and Disastrous Queen

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Sibylla in the Hollywood film "Kingdom of Heaven" Sibylla of Jerusalem, Queen of Jerusalem from 1186 – 1190, was a tragic...

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Friday, August 14, 2015

A Forgotten Christian Victory over Saladin: Le Forbelet

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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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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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