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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 66. Chapters: Torquato Tasso, William of Tyre, Gerald of Wales, Ambroise, Albert of Aix, Jean de Joinville, Jaufre Rudel, Eliezer ben Nathan, Guibert of Nogent, List of operas set in the Crusades, Usama ibn Munqidh, Kitab al-I'tibar, Guillaume de Machaut, William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, Zaire, Jerusalem Delivered, Bertran de Born, Alexiad, Chronicle of the Morea, Crusade song, Crusade cycle, List of sources for the Crusades, De la Conquete de Constantinople, Marino Sanuto the Elder, Raimon de Cornet, Otto of Freising, Matthew of Edessa, Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad, Pierre Dubois, Fulcher of Chartres, Ernoul, Song of the Albigensian Crusade, Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani, Baldric of Dol, Marcabru, Gesta Tancredi, Austorc d'Aorlhac, Dei gesta per Francos, Chanson d'Antioche, Canso d'Antioca, Liber maiolichinus de gestis Pisanorum illustribus, Uc de Pena, Odo of Deuil, Chronica, Gesta Francorum, Giraut de Bornelh, Caffaro di Rustico da Caschifellone, Peire Bremon lo Tort, Itinerarium Regis Ricardi, Peire Lunel de Montech, Guilhem de Saint-Leidier, Templar of Tyre, Austorc de Segret, Cercamon, Raymond of Aguilers, The Complete History, Walter the Chancellor, The First Crusade: A New History, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami, Solomon bar Simson Chronicle, Ibn al-Qalanisi, Ekkehard of Aura, Peire Vidal, Mainz Anonymous, The Crusade and Death of Richard I, Peter Tudebode, Antiocheis, Robert the Monk, History of the Crusades for the Recovery and Possession of the Holy Land, Erminia. Excerpt: William of Tyre (c. 1130 - 29 September 1186) was a medieval prelate and chronicler. As archbishop of Tyre, he is sometimes known as William II to distinguish him from a predecessor, William of Malines. He grew up in Jerusalem at the height of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, which had been established in 1099 after the First Crusade, and he spe...
