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23 unusual facts about Crusades


Al-Husayni

The Husaynis migrated to Jerusalem in the 12th century after Saladin drove out the Crusaders from the city and much of the Levant.

Al-Muslimiyah

In 1103 the Crusaders led by Bohemond I of Antioch and Joscelin of Courtenay captured al-Muslimiyah and exacted a large tribute from its Muslim inhabitants.

Al-Qadmus

Al-Qadmus is home to an important medieval castle that served as the headquarters of the Ismaili community in Syria, known as the Assassins during the Crusader era.

Aleramici

Members of the family participated frequently in the Crusades, and became kings and queens of Jerusalem.

Chess Crusade

This game Chess Crusade is based on a chess board game, which is a reenactment of the Crusades.

Church of All Nations

The current church rests on the foundations of two earlier ones, that of a small 12th century Crusader chapel abandoned in 1345, and a 4th-century Byzantine basilica, destroyed by an earthquake in 746.

Cyrrhus

It was taken by the Muslims in 637 and known at that time under the name of Qorosh and later by the Crusaders in the 11th century.

Inab

During the Crusades, in 1149, Nur ad-Din Zangi, achieved a decisive victory against the Crusader army of Raymond of Antioch, and the allied followers of Ali ibn-Wafa, in the Battle of Inab outside the town.

Jacob Gretser

The second volume given fifty-seven Graeco-Latin eulogies of the Holy Cross by Greek writers, the third treats of cross-bearing coins, of the Crusades, adding also a defence of both the Crusades and the veneration of the Cross.

Kinnot

The main impetus for creation of new Kinnot during the Middle Ages was the Crusades, in which Christian mobs decimated many Jewish communities.

Luca Cancellari

Admirable icons that ended up in Western Europe after the conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204, like the Madonna Nicopeia in St Mark's Basilica in Venice, the Madonna di San Luca in the Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca in Bologna, the Madonna Salus Populi Romani in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome and other with Greek inscriptions of that period are attributed to him.

Maarrat Misrin

In 1099, Ma'arat Misrin was conquered by the Crusaders who killed the town's defenders and destroyed the minbar ("pulpit") of its mosque.

Maraclea

Maraclea, also known as Khrab Marqiya or Maraqîya, was a small coastal Crusader town and a castle in the Levant, between Tortosa and Baniyas (Buluniyas).

Pirkko-Liisa Lehtosalo-Hilander

She has focused specifically on the Finnish Viking Age and the period of the Crusades, i.e. the 11th, 12th and 13th century religious military campaigns.

Richard J. Maybury

In his book, The Thousand Year War, he says that Muslims have been persecuted as much as the Jews by Western civilization through events such as the Crusades, and that they are retaliating after being wronged by the Europeans and the western culture, including the United States government.

Robert of Auxerre

It is one of the most valuable sources for the history of France during the reign of Philip Augustus, and it also contains information about other European countries, the Crusades and affairs in the East.

Saint William's Church, Strasbourg

Returning unharmed from the Crusades, the knight Henri de Müllenheim undertook the construction of a monastery for the Hermits of Saint William, an order of mendicant monks, in this marshy neighbourhood situated extra muros, that is, beyond the city walls.

Sayeed Salahudeen

He then joined Hizbul Mujahideen founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar alias "Master" who later parted from Hizbul Mujahideen was replaced by Muhammad Yousuf Shah who then adopted nom de guerre "Sayeed Salahudeen", named after Saladin, the 12th century Muslim political and military leader, who fought in the Crusades.

Stephen of Durazzo

He moved to Portugal as a crusader, having fought the Moors alongside "his cousin" king Afonso IV of Portugal at the battle of Salado, as mentioned in Duarte Nunes de Leão's Chronicles of the Kings of Portugal.

Stevan Faddy

He has claimed that he is descended from William Faddy, who came to Montenegro, at that time known as Zeta, during the Crusades with King Richard I of England and decided to stay after falling in love with a local girl.

Superfantozzi

During periods to follow Fantozzi finally arrives in the Middle Ages where together with Filini back from Crusades in the Holy Land to return to his wife Pina who wore the chastity belt.

Treaty of Jaffa

The Treaty of Jaffa was an agreement during the Crusades.

Zardana

In the 12th century, during the Crusades, Zardana was a significant fortress town which changed hands several times between the Crusaders and various Muslim powers.


Barthélémy de Maraclée

Barthélémy de Maraclée was Lord of Maraclea, also known as Khrab Marqiya, a small coastal Crusader town and a castle in the Levant, between Tortosa and Baniyas (Buluniyas).

Blakeney, Norfolk

This was the gift of Maud de Roos or latterly de Ros, née de Vaux, wife of William de Ros, 1st Baron de Ros who distinguished himself in the Crusades, was knighted and granted land at Cley and Blakeney.

Bloomsbury Theatre

Amongst the many other artists who have performed at the theatre are; UCL alumnus Ricky Gervais has performed two of his standup shows in the theatre, where they were also filmed for release on DVD and was the venue for Crusader Norman Housley come-back lecture series: Contesting the Crusades, which he developed into a popular history book.

Ceres, California

Cliff Barrows - the ministry partner and announcer at the Billy Graham evangelistic crusades

Châlus

T. E. Lawrence, who would later be known as Lawrence of Arabia, celebrated his 20th birthday at the former Grand Hôtel du Midi, Place de la Fountain, on August 16, 1908, whilst tracing the route of Richard I of England, on a cycling tour of France in preparation for his thesis: The Influence of the crusades on the European military architecture at the end of the XIIth century.

Crusade song

Occitan troubadours dealt especially with the Albigensian campaigns in the early thirteenth century, but there decline thereafter left the later Crusades—Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth—to be convered primarily by the German Minnesinger and French trouvères.

Gino Geraci

He has conducted leadership conferences, Bible Conferences, and emergency service support conferences with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Samaritans’ Purse, Gospel for Asia in India, and Sri Lanka, the Bible League in Africa; Food For The Poor in Jamaica; Mike McIntosh Crusades in Mexico; Somebody Loves You Bible Conferences with Raul Ries in Chile, Columbia, Peru and Pastor’s conferences in much of the continental United States.

GM Futurliner

At least one Futurliner was purchased by Oral Roberts and used as a portable stage during evangelical crusades of the 1960s.

Halhul

Chronicler Ali of Herat documented in 1173 CE, that while Halhul was a part of the Kingdom of Jerusalem of the Crusaders, it was a village in which the tomb of Yunis ibn Matta (Jonah son of Amittai) was located.

Heinrich von Sybel

In 1861 Lady Duff-Gordon published an English translation of a part of this book, to which were added lectures on the crusades delivered in Munich in 1858, under the title History and Literature of the Crusades.

Historia Hierosolymitana

Jacques de Vitry's Historia Hierosolymitana, a history of the Holy Land from the advent of Islam until the crusades of his own day, written in 1219

House of Ligne

The lords of Ligne belonged to the entourage of the Count of Hainaut at the time of the Crusades.

Islamization of Jerusalem

In 1099, The Fatimid ruler expelled the native Christian population before Jerusalem was conquered by the Crusaders, who massacred most of its Muslim and Jewish inhabitants when they took the solidly defended city by assault, after a period of siege; later the Crusaders created the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Kew House

Sean Godsell was born in Melbourne in 1960 and is a new generation of architect in the 1990s who insists on the traditions of Modernism and the crusades for the difference in family houses design.

Kirby Page

He points out that historically the peaceful message of Christ was distorted into a religion of war by Constantine the Great, by the Crusades, and by the Church being deeply embedded in the medieval feudal system.

L'Encobert

According to Venguda Del Antichrist, a Messiah would soon come who would lead a new Crusade to the Holy Land, annihilate the Muslims, and do battle with the Antichrist as predicted in the Book of Revelation.

Leonhard Reichartinger

Leonhard Reichartinger (?? - 1396) was a Crusader of Bavarian nobility, who may have come from the vicinity of Trostberg.

Mamilov`s

Kist – the son of a famous Syrian the owner of the house Kamen (Comnenus), during the first Crusades moved from Syria and Abkhazia, and hence, after a while, went to the Georgia.

Maurice Wood

Wood was a supporter of evangelism and helped to organise Billy Graham's UK crusades.

Moustapha Akkad

At the time of his death, he was in the process of producing an $80 million movie featuring Sean Connery about Saladin and the Crusades, for which he already had the script, that would be filmed in Jordan.

Music of Crete

Following the Crusades, however, the Franks, Venetians and Genoese dominated the island and introduced new instruments and styles of music.

Najm ad-Din Ayyub

M. Holt, The Age of the Crusades: The Near East from the Eleventh Century to 1517, Longman, 1986.

Norma Zimmer

She also appeared in a number of the Billy Graham evangelical crusades and wrote a book about her life, Norma (1976), published by Tyndale House.

Qaqun

In December of 1271, as Baybars was battling the Mongols in Aleppo, the Crusader forces of King Edward raided Qaqun, but were quickly fought back by the forces of the Mamluk emirs.

Radulphe

From Germany, Rodolphe's idea of "beginning the Crusades at home" passed back to France, and Jews were massacred at Carentan, Rameru, and Sully.

Royal Lao Air Force

David Corn, Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and the CIA's Crusades, Simon & Schuster, 1994.

Saintonge War

The French decisively defeated the English at the Battle of Taillebourg and concluded the struggle at the Siege of Saintes, but because of dynastic sensibilities and the desire to go on a crusade, Louis did not annex Guyenne.

Swedish Crusades

Part of the Northern Crusades, the Swedish Crusades were campaigns by Sweden in Finland.

Water fasting

Paul C. Bragg referred to this energy as the "Vital Force," and popularized water fasting with his many books including Bragg Health Crusades, and promotion by Hollywood celebrities such as Stephanie Morgan and Clint Eastwood.

William de Ufford, 2nd Earl of Suffolk

In the autumn of 1367, William de Ufford and Thomas Beauchamp were going overseas, probably on a crusade to Prussia.

William Rockhill Nelson

Among his most famous crusades was a push for Kansas City’s George Kessler-designed park and boulevard system and the 1900 “Kansas City Spirit” to build Convention Hall in 90 days in order to host the 1900 Democratic National Convention after the original (and new) convention hall had burned in April 1900.

Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem

According to local legend it takes its name from the 12th Century Crusades to the Holy Land: legend has it that knights who answered the calls of Richard I to join the crusades stopped off at this watering hole for a pint on their way to Jerusalem.