Crusade literature

Bahā' ad-Dīn Yusuf ibn Rafi ibn Shaddād (Arabic: بهاء الدين ابن شداد‎‎; the honorific title "Bahā' ad-Dīn" means "splendor of the faith"; sometimes known as Bohadin or Boha-Eddyn) (7 March 1145 – 8 November 1234) was a 12th-century Muslim jurist and scholar, a Kurdish historian of great note, notable for writing a biography of Saladin whom he knew well.

Marcabru (Occitan pronunciation: [markaˈbɾy]; fl. 1130-1150) is one of the earliest troubadours whose poems are known.

The Betrothed is an 1825 novel by Sir Walter Scott.

Jerusalem Delivered (Italian: La Gerusalemme liberata [la dʒeruzaˈlɛmme libeˈraːta]) is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso first published in 1581, which tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade in which Christian knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, battle Muslims in order to take Jerusalem.

Odo, Odon, or Eudes of Deuil (1110 – April 18, 1162) was an historian and participant of the Second Crusade (1147–1149).

Cercamon (Occitan pronunciation: [serkɔˈmun], fl. c. 1135-1145), whose real name, as well as any actual biographical data, is unknown, was one of the earliest troubadours.

Albert of Aix(-la-Chapelle) or Albert of Aachen (floruit circa AD 1100), historian of the First Crusade, was born during the later part of the 11th century, and afterwards became canon (priest) and custos (guardian) of the church of Aachen.

Otto of Freising (Otto Frisingensis) (c. 1114 – 22 September 1158) was a German churchman and chronicler.

Bertran de Born (Occitan: [beɾˈtɾan de ˈbɔɾn]; 1140s – by 1215) was a baron from the Limousin in France, and one of the major Occitan troubadours of the twelfth century.

Crusade in Jeans (1973) is a children's novel written by Thea Beckman.

Guillaume de Machaut (French: [gijom də maʃo]; sometimes spelled Machault; c. 1300 – April 1377) was a medieval French poet and composer.

Giraut de Bornelh (Occitan: [ɡiˈɾawd de buɾˈneʎ]; c. 1138 – 1215), whose first name is also spelled Guiraut and whose toponym as de Borneil or de Borneyll, was a troubadour connected to the castle of the viscount of Limoges.

Ivanhoe /ˈaɪvənˌhoʊ/ is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, first published in 1820 in three volumes and subtitled A Romance.

Hamza ibn Asad abu Ya'la ibn al-Qalanisi (Arabic: ابن القلانسي‎‎) (c. 1071 – March 18, 1160) was an Arab politician and chronicler in Damascus in the 12th century.

Guibert de Nogent (c. 1055–1124) was a Benedictine historian, theologian and author of autobiographical memoirs.

Ekkehard of Aura (Latin: Ekkehardus Uraugiensis; died 1126) was the Abbot of Aura (a monastery founded by Otto, Bishop of Bamberg, on the Franconian Saale river, near Bad Kissingen, Bavaria) from 1108.

Jaufre Rudel (Jaufré in modern Occitan) was the Prince of Blaye (Princes de Blaia) and a troubadour of the early–mid 12th century, who probably died during the Second Crusade, in or after 1147.

Peire Vidal (born mid-12th century) was an Old Occitan troubadour.

Fulcher of Chartres (1059 in or near Chartres - after 1128) was a priest and participated in the First Crusade.

Muhammad ibn Hamed Isfahani (1125 – June 20, 1201) (Persian: محمد ابن حامد اصفهانی‎‎), more popularly known as Imad ad-din al-Isfahani (Persian: عماد الدین اصفهانی‎‎) (Arabic: عماد الدين الأصفهاني‎‎ (519-13 Ramadan 597)), was a Persian historian, scholar, and rhetorician.

Freidank (Vrîdanc) was a Middle High German didactic poet of the early 13th century.

Walter the Chancellor (also known as Galterius cancellarius, the Latinized form of his French name, Gautier) was a French or Norman crusader and author of the twelfth century.

Robert the Monk or Robert of Rheims (born 1047, died 1122) was a chronicler of the First Crusade.

Baldric of Dol (c. 1050 – 7 January 1130) was abbot of Bourgueil from 1079 to 1106, then bishop of Dol-en-Bretagne from 1107 until his death.

Marino Sanuto or Sanudo the Elder of Torcello (1260 – 1338) was a Venetian statesman and geographer.

Caffaro di Rustico da Caschifellone (c. 1080 – c. 1164) was a statesman, diplomat, admiral and historian of the Republic of Genoa.

Ambroise, sometimes Ambroise of Normandy, (flourished c. 1190) was a Norman poet and chronicler of the Third Crusade, author of a work called L'Estoire de la guerre sainte, which describes in rhyming Old French verse the adventures of Richard Coeur de Lion as a crusader.

il Conquisto di Granata (The conquest of Granada) is an epic poem in 26 cantos by the Italian poet Girolamo Graziani first published in Modena in 1650, which tells the last year of the siege of Granada (Granada War) led by Ferdinand II of Aragon (Ferdinand The Catholic) with which ended the reconquista of the Muslim-controlled areas of the Iberian Peninsula broadly known as Al-Andalus.

Antiocheis is an epic poem by Joseph of Exeter, written in Latin soon after the year 1190, when Joseph returned to England from the Third Crusade on the death of his friend and fellow Crusader, Baldwin of Exeter, archbishop of Canterbury.

Gesta Tancredi in expeditione Hierosolymitana ("The Deeds of Tancred in the Crusade"), usually called simply Gesta Tancredi, is a prosimetric history written in laconic Latin prose and episodes of verse by a certain Ralph of Caen (before 1079 – after 1130).

Raymond of Aguilers (French Raymond d'Aguilers, Latin Raimundus de Aguilers or de Agiles) was a chronicler of the First Crusade (1096-1099).