Paul F. Crawford - The Templar of Tyre

CRUSADE TEXTS IN TRANSLATION

About the Volume:

The crusading movement, which originated in the eleventh century and lasted beyond the sixteenth, bequeathed to its future historians a legacy of sources which are unrivalled in their range and variety. These sources document in fascinating detail the motivations and viewpoints, military efforts and spiritual lives, of the participants in the crusades. They also narrate the internal histories of the states and societies which crusaders established or supported in the many regions where they fought. Some of these sources have been translated in the past but the vast majority have been available only in their original language. The goal of this series is to provide a wide ranging corpus of texts, most of them translated for the first time, which will illuminate the history of the crusades and the crusader-states from every angle, including that of their principal adversaries, the Muslim powers of the Middle East.

To Peter W. Edbury
Sine qua non

The Templar of Tyre

Crusade Texts in Translation

Editorial Board

Malcolm Barber (Reading), Peter Edbury (Cardiff),
Bernard Hamilton (Nottingham), and Norman Housley (Leicester)

Titles in this series include:
(in Paperback)

Janet Shirley
The Song of the Cathar Wars
A History of the Albigensian Crusade

Helen J. Nicholson
The Chronicle of the Third Crusade
The Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi

D.S. Richards
The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin
or al-Nawdir al-Sultniyya wal-Mahsin al-Ysufiyya
by Bah al-Dn Ibn Shaddd

(in hardback)

Janet Shirley and Peter W. Edbury
Guillaume de Machaut
The Capture of Alexandria

Thomas A. Fudge
The Crusade against Heretics in Bohemia, 14181437
Sources and Documents for the Hussite Crusades

Damian Smith and Helena Buffery
The Book of Deeds of James I of Aragon
A Translation of the Medieval Catalan Llibre dels Fets

First published 2003 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Crawford, Paul

The templar of Tyre : part III of the deeds of the

Cypriots. - (Crusade texts in translation)

1.Crusades - Later, 13th, 14th and 15th centuries 2.Cyprus - History

I.Title

940.1'84

Library of Congress Control Number: 2003048919

ISBN 13: 978-1-84014-618-9 (hbk)

The Templar of Tyre

Part III of the Deeds of the Cypriots

PAUL CRAWFORD

This translation was made possible by the efforts of a great many people. Foremost among them is Peter Edbury without him, the project would not have been begun, carried through, nor finished. I owe him a very great debt of gratitude. In addition, John Smedley of Ashgate must be mentioned and thanked particularly for his steady patience and apparently unwavering faith in the eventual completion of this volume.

A number of other people supplied technical advice or assistance. These include Malcolm Barber, Franca Barracelli, Li-Ping Bu, Michael Chamberlain, Paul Chevedden, John Dotson, Jaroslav Folda, John France, P. M. Holt, D. M. Metcalf, David Nicolle, Helen Nicholson, John Pryor, Ute Stargardt and Kazimierz Zaniewski. There are no doubt others to whom I should offer thanks but whose contributions I have inadvertently forgotten to them I offer my apologies.

My wife Ardella deserves special thanks for a great many things, including serving as a resident consultant on grammar and style, listening critically to large sections of the text, and (last but not least) tolerating this relentless competitor for my time and attention over the last six years.

Regardless of the value of the contributions of others, the end result is mine, and any criticisms of its shortcomings, which are doubtless plentiful, must fall on me alone.

Map 1 Medieval Mediterranean

* Maps prepared by the author with the kind assistance of Kazimierz Zaniewski

Map 2 Medieval Eastern Mediterranean

* Maps prepared by the author with the kind assistance of Kazimierz Zaniewski