Documentary taking a look at the Fourth Crusade, one of the most widely-discussed episodes in Crusades history. In 1204, an ...

Clara Amit / Israel Antiquities Authority On the eve of combat, Frankish Crusader knights broke camp near a spring in what is now Israel before moving into position to meet the Muslim armies of ...

During the Crusades of the Middle Ages, a typical Frankish knight wore “a coat of chain mail or scale armour, [a] shield and a helmet,” Piers Mitchell tells us in his book on warfare and ...

I knew a lot about the conflict between the Christian Frankish knights and Saracens during the crusades. (It may surprise my own readers to learn that I deliver history lectures on luxury cruise ...

Like thunder, the hooves of the Frankish knights bore down on Ragnarr's men. They had never seen a true, united, Southern army such as this, always having raided and been away before forces could ...