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Albert IV, Count of Habsburg

A follower of Emperor Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, he died on the 1239 crusade of King Theobald I of Navarre near Ashkelon.

Artificial respiration

Thomas Cogan, another English physician, who had become interested in the same subject during a stay at Amsterdam, where was instituted in 1767 a society for preservation of life from accidents in water, joined Hawes in his crusade.

Baldric of Dol

Balderic's most valuable work from the second part of his career is his "Historiae Hierosolymitanae libri IV", an account of the First Crusade, based in part on the testimony of eyewitnesses, and submitted for correction to the Abbot Peter of Maillezais, who had accompanied the Crusaders.

Battle of Al Mansurah

The ships of the Seventh Crusade sailed from the French ports of Aigues-Mortes and Marseille to Cyprus during the autumn of 1248, then in 1249 sailed toward Egypt, led by King Louis's brothers, Charles d'Anjou and Robert d'Artois.

Battle of Muret

Laurence Marvin, "The Occitan War: A Military and Political History of the Albigensian Crusade, 1209-1218", Berry College: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 175-195.

Byzantine university

The Crusaders's capture of Constantinople in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade ended all support for higher education, although the government in exile in Nicaea gave some support to individual private teachers.

Chess Crusade

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

Christian Jacq

The tale of Queen Ahhotep, Egypt's "Joan of Arc" and her crusade to liberate her nation from the Hyksos oppressors

Christianity in the 13th century

Between 1232 and 1234, there was a crusade against the Stedingers.

Crusade for Freedom

The Crusade began a second American campaign, led by Harold Stassen, on Labor Day (3 September) 1951.

One of the Crusade's first actions was to create a Freedom Bell, designed after the American Liberty Bell.

Clips this film were shown as advertisements (produced by the Hearst Corporation and the Advertising Council) for the Crusade for Freedom during the 1951–2 fundraising campaign.

Crusade of Fire

Crusade of Fire (ISBN 0-446-61090-9) is an anthology edited by Katherine Kurtz.

Dalnic

György Dózsa set out from here in 1514 on the crusade announced by cardinal Tamás Bakócz which ended up in a peasant war.

Damnation Crusade

Damnation Crusade is a six-issue comic book limited series from Boom! Studios, written by Dan Abnett and Ian Edginton.

Delano-Hitch Stadium

On August 7, 2010 Marcus Gill Ministries held a crusade, "Unity Fest with Minister Marcus Gill".

Etta Agnell Wheeler

Wheeler was the guest speaker and presented her keynote address, The Story of Mary Ellen which was later published by the American Humane Association, called The Story of Mary Ellen: Which started the Child Saving Crusade.

Fifth Crusade

The failure of the Crusade caused an outpouring of anti-papal sentiment from the Occitan poet Guilhem Figueira.

First Swedish Crusade

The First Swedish Crusade was a possibly mythical military expedition around 1150 that has traditionally been seen as the conquest of Finland by Sweden, with pagan Finns converting to Christianity.

Fred J. Cook

Cook's 1964 book, Goldwater: Extremist on the Right, initiated a series of events which in the end led to the Supreme Court decision in what is known as the Red Lion case: After the book appeared, Cook was attacked by conservative evangelist Billy James Hargis on his daily Christian Crusade radio broadcast, on WGCB in Red Lion, Pennsylvania.

Freidank

During the crusade he may have reached Jaffa and was probably a witness of the conclusion of the peace treaty with Sultan Al-Kamil on 18 February 1229 at Jerusalem and Frederick's self-coronation as King of Jerusalem.

George VIII of Georgia

Yet, Georgia was considered as a possible participant of a large anti-Ottoman crusade planned by the Pope Pius II and Western European powers.

Guilhem Figueira

Guilhem attacked the papacy not only for the Albigensian Crusade and the cruel sack of Béziers, but also for the failures of the Fourth and Fifth Crusades, papal imperialism, and the moral failings of the clergy.

Hugh Cudlipp

In 1974, director/producer John Goldschmidt made the documentary film Telling It Like It Is: Cudlipp's Crusade, featuring Hugh Cudlipp about the "state of the nation", for ATV.

Jesús Salvador Treviño

Most notably, Treviño has directed a number of episodes from the television series Resurrection Blvd., Babylon 5, Crusade, Bones, Star Trek: Voyager, seaQuest DSV, Crossing Jordan, Third Watch and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Joscius, Archbishop of Tyre

In England, Henry promulgated the Saladin tithe to pay for the crusade; this was perhaps influenced by the 1183 tax in Jerusalem, which Joscius may have mentioned to him at Gisors.

Kirby's Dream Collection

Additionally, the game includes a museum section, which spotlights every title in the Kirby series as of 2012, and includes three viewable episodes from the anime Kirby: Right Back at Ya! ("Kirby Comes to Cappy Town", "Crusade for the Blade", and "Waddle While You Work").

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.

Liber Floridus

Lambert collected his material from such sources as Isidore's Etymologiae, the Historia Brittonum, and the crusade chronicle of Bartolf of Nangis.

Overstock.com

In July 2006, John J. Byrne, the father of Overstock's chief executive, resigned from the board of directors after a public airing of the elder Byrne's unhappiness with his son's crusade against naked short-selling.

Rafael Garres

Since then, Garres has worked for publishers like DC Comics, Fleetway and Crusade, cooperating with writers such as Alan Grant, Pat Mills and John Wagner on series like Lobo, Sláine, Judge Dredd, Jaguar God, The Spectre and JLA.

Ramsbottom Evangelical Church

1961 marked a turning point in the life of the Evangelical Church when younger men were invited to attend a Billy Graham crusade which resulted in a cross pollination of religious ideals from the United States with those of 1960's England.

Raymond Roger Trencavel

This identification has been favoured in more recent years by Otto Rahn in his Crusade Against the Grail, Peter Berling in various works in his series The Children of the Grail, Jean Blum in Mystère et message des Cathares, and Joaquín Javaloys in his historical novel Yo, Parsifal: el mítico caballero del Grial.

Reinhard Bonnke

After graduating from the Bible College of Wales and returning to Germany, Bonnke led a series of crusade meetings in Rendsburg.

Renier of Montferrat

Queller, Donald E. & Madden, Thomas F. The Fourth Crusade: The Conquest of Constantinople (2nd Edition, 1999) ISBN 0-8122-1713-6

Robert Adelmann

They raised their family in a Christian home environment, having been born again at a Billy Graham crusade.

Royal Masonic School for Boys

Both schools were commonly used for films (such as Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Lucky Jim (twice), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and numerous TV shows) from the 1950s until recently.

Sai Wing Mock

Mock Duck took advantage of the reform crusade started by Charles Parkhurst.

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.

Sixth Crusade

Cecelia Holland's novel Antichrist presents a heavily fictionalized account of the Sixth Crusade from Frederick II's perspective.

The Jones Sisters Trio

In 1966, having already recorded two albums for World Records, the Trio (now 21, 19, and 17) played as part of the week-long Harlem Crusade Association rally at the Apollo Theater to over 12,000 people.

Thibaut de Blaison

Thibaut de Blaison, Blason, or Blazon (died after March 1229) was a Poitevin nobleman, Crusader, and trouvère from a noble family with lands in Blason and Mirabel.

Thyrfing

The band played their first US show in January 2006 alongside Moonsorrow and Primordial at the Heathen Crusade metalfest in Columbia Heights, Minnesota.

Trebuchet

The largest trebuchets needed exceptional quantities of timber: at the Siege of Damietta, in 1249, Louis IX of France was able to build a stockade for the whole Crusade camp with the wood from 24 captured Egyptian trebuchets.

Wilbrand van Oldenburg

Wilbrands older brothers Burchard of Wildenbrug and Henry III, Count of Oldenburg were killed in a crusade against the Stedingers.

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.


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