* Crusader ( Bloor novel ), a 1999 novel by Edward Bloor

The children's book Knight Crusader ( 1954 ) by Ronald Welch is slightly ambivalent, while Susan Peek's Crusader King ( 2004 ), a proselytising children's novel about Baldwin IV, is downright hostile towards him, depicting him as the stereotypical ' wicked uncle ', plotting against Baldwin, and in Saladin's pay.

* In John Jakes ' 1977 novel " King's Crusader ", Blondel is on a quest to find his friend and master, Richard the Lion-Hearted.

Sultan Qutuz of Egypt eventually defeated the Mongols in the Battle of Ain Jalut ( near Ein Harod ) and his successor ( and assassin ), Baibars, eliminated the last Crusader Kingdom of Acre in 1291, thereby ending the Crusades.

Other prominent games developers include Julian Gollop ( Chaos, Rebelstar, X-COM series ), Matthew Smith ( Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy ), Jon Ritman ( Match Day, Head Over Heels ), Jonathan " Joffa " Smith ( Ping Pong, Batman: The Caped Crusader, Mikie, HyperSports ), The Oliver Twins ( the Dizzy series ), Clive Townsend ( Saboteur ), Sandy White ( Ant Attack, I of the mask ), Pete Cooke ( Tau Ceti ), Mike Singleton ( The Lords of Midnight, War In Middle Earth ), and Alan Cox.

* 1285 – April 25 – Mamluk sultan Qalawun begins a siege of the Crusader fortress of Margat ( in present-day Syria ), a major stronghold of the Knights Hospitaller thought to be impregnable ; he captures the fortress a month later.

* Ciggaar, Krijnie & Teule, Herman ( ed., 1996 ), East and West in the Crusader States.

Towards the end of the period of Crusader rule, in 1166 Maimonides visited Hebron, which he apparently thought lay east of Jerusalem, and wrote ,' On Sunday, 9 Marheshvan ( 17 October ), I left Jerusalem for Hebron to kiss the tombs of my ancestors in the Cave.

* May 18 – Al-Ashraf Khalil of Egypt captures Acre, thus exterminating the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem ( the final Christian landholding remaining from the Crusades ), and ending the Ninth Crusade and effectively all Crusades, by eliminating the possibility of further attacks on the Holy Land ( see Siege of Acre ( 1291 )).

* April 25 – Mamluk sultan Qalawun begins a siege of the Crusader fortress of Margat ( in present-day Syria ), a major stronghold of the Knights Hospitaller thought to be impregnable ; he captures the fortress a month later.

The XM2001 Crusader was to be the United States Army's next-generation self-propelled howitzer ( SPH ), designed to improve the survivability, lethality, mobility, and effectiveness of the artillery as well as the overall force.

* Crusader ( Marvel Comics ), two different fictional characters in Marvel Comics

* Crusader ( game series ), an action computer game series

* Crusader ( Dungeons & Dragons ), a Dungeons & Dragons character class

* Crusader Kings ( computer game ), a strategy computer game

* Crusader ( film ), a 2005 TV movie starring Bo Derek and Andrew McCarthy

* The Crusader ( 1932 film ), a 1932 film starring Evelyn Brent

* The Crusader ( 2007 film ), a 2007 direct-to-DVD motion picture

* Nicolle, David ( 1999 ) Arms and Armour of the Crusading Era, 1050-1350: Western Europe and the Crusader States.

* Pat Eddery – Crusader Castle ( 1983 ), Spicy Story ( 1984 ), Valuable Witness ( 1986 ), My Patriarch ( 1994 ), Celeric ( 1999 )

It was also offered with a wide variety of bodies, namely the East Lancs Spryte, UVG Urbanstar ( later renamed as the Caetano Compass ; replaced by the Nimbus in 1999 ), the stylish Wright Crusader, Alexander ALX200 ( discontinued in 2001 with the formation of Transbus International and being replaced by the Pointer 2 ), Marshall Capital ( developed from the C37 ; later built by MCV ), Caetano Nimbus and MCV Evolution ( since 2005-a further evolution of the Marshall bodywork ).

These include Zofia Kossak-Szczucka's Król trędowaty ( The Leper King ), Manuel Mujica Láinez's fantasy El unicornio ( The Wandering Unicorn ), Cecelia Holland's Jerusalem, Judith Tarr's historical fantasies Alamut and The Dagger and the Cross, The Knights of Dark Renown by Graham Shelby ( 1969 ), Nikos Kazantzakis's Saint Francis and The Crusader King by Susan Peek.

* Bernard Hamilton, " Women in the Crusader States: The Queens of Jerusalem ", in Medieval Women, edited by Derek Baker.

The British developed their own SPAAGs throughout the war mounting multiple machine guns and light cannon on various tank and armoured car chassis and by 1943, the Crusader AA tanks, which mounted the Bofors 40 mm gun or two-three Oerlikon 20 mm cannon.

Bethlehem — along with Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Sidon — was briefly ceded to the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem by a treaty between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and Ayyubid Sultan al-Kamil in 1229, in return for a ten-year truce between the Ayyubids and the Crusaders.

Subsequently, the Druze chiefs of the Gharb placed their considerable military experience at the disposal of the Mamluk rulers of Egypt ( 1250 – 1516 ); first, to assist them in putting an end to what remained of Crusader rule in coastal Syria, and later to help them safeguard the Syrian coast against Crusader retaliation by sea.

When asked by a Crusader how to distinguish between the Catholics and Cathars once they'd taken the city of Béziers, the Papal Legate Arnaud Amalric famously replied, " Kill them all, God will know His own ".

" Saladin aimed to counter this propaganda by ending the siege, claiming he was defending Islam from the Crusaders ; his army returned to Hama to engage a Crusader force there.

Al-Maqrizi added to the rumor by claiming Muhammad's tomb was going to be relocated to Crusader territory so Muslims would make pilgrimages there.

When the Crusader force — reckoned to be the largest the kingdom ever produced from its own resources, but still outmatched by the Muslims — advanced, the Ayyubids unexpectedly moved down the stream of Ain Jalut.

However, Crusader attacks provoked further responses by Saladin.

In this battle alone the Crusader force was largely annihilated by Saladin's determined army.

Tyre, on the coast of modern-day Lebanon, was the last major Crusader city that was not captured by Muslim forces ( strategically, it would have made more sense for Saladin to capture Tyre before Jerusalem — however, Saladin chose to pursue Jerusalem first because of the importance of the city to Islam ).

Crisis at Crusader Citadel was an introductory adventure, a V & V supplement published in 1982 by Fantasy Games Unlimited, written and illustrated by Dee and Herman.

* 1125: On June 11, in the Battle of Azaz, the Crusader States, led by King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, defeat the Seljuk Turks.

* Battle of Yibneh, a Crusader force led by Eustace Grenier crushed a Fatimid army at Yibna.

* The Crusader castles of Montreal and Kerak are captured by Saladin.

* The Crusader castle of Montreal is built by Baldwin I of Jerusalem.

American television animation of the 1950s featured quite limited animation styles, highlighted by the work of Jay Ward on Crusader Rabbit.

The unexpected demise of Frederick left the Crusader army under the command of the rivals Philip II of France and Richard I of England, who had traveled to Palestine separately by sea, and ultimately led to its dissolution.

* Crusader states, states set up by the Europeans in the Balkans and the Middle East during The Crusades

* Crusader, an alias used by a character claiming to be Marvel Boy ( Robert Grayson )