The Templar of Tyre
Subtitle: Part III of the 'Deeds of the Cypriots (Crusade Texts in Translation, 6)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: November 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781840146189
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; History of religion; Holy war; Other prose: classical, early & medieval; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History - General History; Europe - France; History; Sources; History: World; France; Europe - General; Crusades, Fourth; 1202-1204; Belegeringen; Crusades; Later, 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries; gtt
First sentence: The chronicle commonly attributed to the 'Templar of Tyre' is the single most important surviving account of the last days of the mainland crusader states.
Description: "The so-called 'Templar of Tyre' is the third and longest section of an important 14th-century chronicle known as the Gestes des Chiprois. Written by a Cypriot knight who served the Templar Master William of Beaujeu as an Arabic translator and a member of his immediate retinue, the 'Templar of Tyre' provides precious contemporary insights, often drawn from the author's personal experience, into events beginning in the early 1230s and ending in 1309 in the East and 1314 in the West. Notably, it covers the last days of the mainland Crusader states and the fall of Acre in 1291 (providing our only eyewitness chronicle of this disaster), as well as providing information on the period following 1291." "The author also reports various events in the West, including the wars of the Hohenstaufen in Italy, the rise and fall of Simon de Montfort in England, the trial and dissolution of the Templars in France, and the interminable wars of Genoa and Venice across the Mediterranean." "This is the first complete translation of the 'Templar of Tyre' into English."--BOOK JACKET.