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This coin featuring Tancred, shows on the obverse Tancred wearing a turban and holding a sword in his right hand, and on the reverse a cross pommetee, with a fleuronnee at the base. The inscription on the obverse reads: +KE BO TANKPI+, and on the…

So-called Crusader's Bowl

Crusader Imitation of a Dinar of al-Amir

This 17th century drawing illustrates a scene from Torquato Tasso's epic poem, "La Gerusalemme liberata" (The Liberation of Jerusalem or Jerusalem Delivered). The subject of this poem was the First Crusade. It served as a subject for numerous artists…

The Alexiad was written c. 1148 by Byzantine Princess Anna Komnene. It is a historical text detailing the political and military life of her father, Alexios I, including his interactions with the crusades. This image is of fol. 1r, but the entire…

These carved wooden figures at the city hall in Cologne, Germany represent the "nine worthies" a group of nine historical, biblical, and literary figures who personified ideas of chivalry in the Middle Ages. These nine figures were divided into three…

Here is a detail of Godfrey (at right, with his sword and dog) with another one of the Christian worthies, Charlemagne.

This map of the Holy Land appears in Matthew Paris' Chronica Majora vol. 1, written and illustrated by Paris.

You can see the full manuscript here: https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/rf352tc5448

The cross in this panel comes from the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, while the panel into which the cross has been set comes from the Rhine-Meuse region. The Latin inscription reads: "You who ask about the cross: read! The heir of Judas the…

A hand basin showing the arms of the Latin Kings of Jerusalem.