Picture Catalog
Note: Not all of these are identified yet. And they are in no particular order.
- Setting out for Second Crusade
- Louis VII sets out on his crusade
- Siege of Damietta
- 1149
- Siege of Constantinople
- 1204
- Massacre of Christian prisoners
- After the Battle of Nicopolis, 1391
- Louis IX burying the dead
- In the wake of the executions after his crusade failed in 1229
- Eighth Crusade
- Louis XI's second crusade, against Tunis in 1270, sometimes called the Eight Crusade
- Siege of Tunis
- 1271
- Philip III and the Sultan of Tunis
- Louis having died, Philip meets with the sultan
- Surrender of Acre
- Final fall of Acre, 1291
- Banquet in honor of Charles IV
- Actors are re-enacting a siege. Which one?
- Siege of Nicopolis
- Note the use of cannons
- 2nd Crusade council at Jerusalem
- The kings discuss plans to attack Damascus
- Emperor Frederick I Hohenstaufen
- Also called Barbarossa
- Civetot
- Destruction of the People's Crusade, 1096
- Richard I Plantagenet, King of England
- Illustration from Matthew Paris' Cronica Majora. Thanks and a tip of the ol' basinet to Dominic Walsh for identifying the source on this one.
- Jerusalem?
- Can anyone identify this picture and its source?
- Execution of the prisoners at Antioch?
- Siege of Acre
- Illustration, circa 1280. Biblotheque Municipale de Lyon, Ms 828 f33r. Many thanks to Martin Higson for identifying this image for me.
- Note the use of the trebuchet
- Slaughter of the Innocents
- Preaching the Second Crusade
- 7
- Can anyone identify this picture and its source?
- A city surrenders to a French King
- But which city and which king?
- Nizam
- Oum
- Saladin's Tomb
- Godfrey of Bouillon
- A wonderfully romantic 19th century vision of Godfrey
- Sahyun Castle, Syria
- Looking up at the support pillar for the bridge. Photograph found in Tate, The Crusaders, Warriors of God. Original in Bibliothèque Nationale, France.
- Margat Castle
- Found in Tate, The Crusaders, Warriors of God. Original engraving from G. Rey, Monuments de l'Architecture Militaire des Croisades en Syrie et dans l'Ile de Chypre in Bibliothèque Nationale, France.
- The walls of Antioch
- Drawing found in Tate, The Crusaders, Warriors of God. Original in Bibliothèque Nationale, France.
- Church of the Ascension
- Tomb effigy of a crusader
- Surrender of Jerusalem
- A 19th century painting
- Louis lands at Damietta
- Louis XI in captivity in Egypt
- Return of the Crusader
- Karl Friedrich Lessing, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn.
- Musicians
- Miniature in al-Hariri, Maqamat. Arabic Manuscript 6094. 1222. Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Found in Tate, The Crusaders, Warriors of God, p. 14.
- Crusaders fight Kilij Arslan at Nicaea
- Surrender of Tarsus to Tancred de Hauteville
- Miniature in Roman de Godefroy de Bouillon et de Saladin, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Found in Tate, The Crusaders, Warriors of God, p. 38.
- Massacre of the Inhabitants of Antioch
- Miniature by Sébastian Mamerot, Les Passages Faits Outremer par les Français contre les Turcs et Autres Sarazaines et Maures Outremarins. 1490. Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Found in Tate, The Crusaders, Warriors of God, p. 38.
- Godfrey of Bouillon
- Godfrey of Bouillon returns in triumph to the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on 12 August 1099, bearing the captured sword and standard of the Egyptian Vizier, al-Afdal.
- A big thanks to "silk chase" in Moscow for the information on this picture.
- The Battle of Ashkelon
- Larivière. Musée du Château, Versailles. Found in Tate, The Crusaders, Warriors of God, pp. 6-7.
- Seal of Baldwin III
- Found in Tate, The Crusaders, Warriors of God, p. 65.
- Seal of Bohemond III of Antioch
- Found in Tate, The Crusaders, Warriors of God, p. 65.
- Seal of the Count of Tripoli
- Found in Tate, The Crusaders, Warriors of God, p. 65.
- Seal of the Prince of Galilee
- Found in Tate, The Crusaders, Warriors of God, p. 65.
- Krak des Chevaliers
- A model
- Coat of arms of Godfrey of Bouillon
- Found in Tate, The Crusaders, Warriors of God, p. 70.
- Coat of arms of Bohemond I of Tarentum
- Found in Tate, The Crusaders, Warriors of God, p. 70.
- Coat of arms of Raymond of St Gilles
- Found in Tate, The Crusaders, Warriors of God, p. 70.
- Coat of arms of Hugh VI of Lusignan
- Found in Tate, The Crusaders, Warriors of God, p. 70.
- Queen Melisende marries Fulk of Anjou
- Miniature, William of Tyre, Histoire de la Conquête de Jérusalem. Found in Tate, The Crusaders, Warriors of God, p. 71.
- Knights Templar share a horse.
- Found in Tate, The Crusaders, Warriors of God, p. 73.
- Templar Knight
- Miniature in L'Ordre Militaire de la Passion du Saveure.Found in Tate, The Crusaders, Warriors of God, p. 74.
- Templar Prince
- Miniature in L'Ordre Militaire de la Passion du Saveure.Found in Tate, The Crusaders, Warriors of God, p. 74.
- A dame of the Templar Order
- Miniature in L'Ordre Militaire de la Passion du Saveure.Found in Tate, The Crusaders, Warriors of God, p. 74.
- Men (serjeants?) carrying longsword and banner
- Miniature in L'Ordre Militaire de la Passion du Saveure.Found in Tate, The Crusaders, Warriors of God, p. 74.
- A crusader
- Siege of Damascus
- Detail of a miniature by Sébastian Mamerot, Les Passages Faits Outremer par les Français contre les Turcs et Autres Sarazaines et Maures Outremarins. 1490. Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. . Found in Tate, The Crusaders, Warriors of God, p. 76.
- Bertrand of St Gilles accepting the surrender of Qadi Fakr al-Mouk after the fall of Tripoli
- Painting by Charles Alexandre Debacq. Found in Tate, The Crusaders, Warriors of God, p. 8.