Crusader Knight (Trade Editions)

by Christa Hook (Illustrator), Dr David Nicolle (Author)

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  Paperback
  1999

  $3.50

  From the days of the First Crusade and the exploits of legendary figures such as Bohemond, Tancred and Raymond of Toulouse, the western 'Frankish' kingdoms of Europe acquired a responsibility for the defense of the Holy Land. The military burden was shouldered by the foreign knights who fought for weeks or months and then returned home, and by the local families of the Kingdom of Jerusalem..