He fled to Prince Ptolemy's fortress in Tusculum on 8 April and remained there, where he met the returning Crusader king Louis VII of France and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Her father Baldwin was a crusader knight who carved out the Crusader State of Edessa and married Morphia, daughter of the Armenian Prince Gabriel of Melitene, in a diplomatic marriage to fortify alliances in the region.

At the Battle of Shaizar, accompanied by Tancred, Prince of Galilee and the Count of Edessa, they held back the Seljuk forces and kept the Crusader states intact.

The Prince of Antioch ruled the Principality of Antioch of the Crusader States, founded by Christian princes in 1098 when the First Crusade took the city ; it disappeared with the departure of the last crusader of in 1268.

Prior to the siege, the Crusader Principality was oblivious to the loss of the city as demonstrated when Baibars sent negotiators to the leader of the former Crusader state and mocking his use of " Prince " in the title Prince of Antioch.

In 1159 the visiting Crusader Prince Raynald of Châtillon wore a tiara shaped felt cap, embellished in gold.

* Godfrey of Bouillon, Duke of Lower Lorraine and a Crusader

The Caliphate lasted in the area until 1099, when the Christian Crusader Godfrey de Bouillon took Hebron and renamed it " Castellion Saint Abraham ".

In order to simplify the problem of supplies, the Crusader army had split into two groups ; the weaker led by Bohemond of Taranto, his nephew Tancred, Robert Curthose, Robert of Flanders, and the Byzantine general Taticius in the vanguard, and Godfrey of Bouillon, his brother Baldwin of Boulogne, Raymond IV of Toulouse, Stephen II, and Hugh of Vermandois in the rear.

* Crusader Godfrey of Bouillon ( 155 )

The earliest variants of the story appear in French chansons de geste attached to the family of Godfrey of Bouillon, the first ruler of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.

As the first ruler of the newly-established Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, Godfrey loomed large in the medieval Christian imagination, and his shadowy genealogy became a popular subject for writers of the period.

The Knight of the Swan story was previously known from the tales of the ancestry of Godfrey of Bouillon, the first ruler of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.

He did not press an attack against the desert castles, but attempted to drive out the Muslim Bedouins who lived in Crusader territory with the aim of depriving the Franks of guides.

They broke the Crusader blockade, destroyed most of their ships, and pursued and captured those who anchored and fled into the desert.

The disgruntled Crusader would then petition the king, who would refer the matter to his Lord Chancellor.

Burton had considered it ridiculous to cast a " bulked-up " ultra-masculine man as Batman, insisting that the Caped Crusader should be an ordinary ( albeit fabulously wealthy ) man who dressed up in an elaborate bat costume to frighten criminals.

* 1228-1229 — Sixth Crusade under the excommunicated Frederick II Hohenstaufen, who returns Jerusalem to the Crusader States.

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.

And in the Levant, a new force had appeared – the Crusader states – who presented the Byzantine Empire with new challenges.

The civil wars started with the disputed succession after King Sigurd the Crusader, who died in 1130, and flared up at shorter or longer intervals for over a century.

In an effort to demonstrate the Byzantine ideal of the emperor's role as the leader of the Christian world, John marched into Muslim Syria at the head of the combined forces of Byzantium and the Crusader states ; yet despite the great vigour with which he pressed the campaign, John's hopes were disappointed by the treachery of his Crusader allies, who deliberately failed to fight against their common Muslim enemies at the crucial moment.

" He refers to Benjamin of Tudela who, during the late Crusader Period in around 1167 CE, wrote that " In front of this place is the Western Wall, which is one of the walls of the Holy of Holies.

Eventually some of the inhabitants have children who inherit some of their powers ; Bravado is the son of Thor and Enchantress, Chokehold is the daughter of Absorbing Man and Titania, Crusader is the daughter of Captain America and Rogue ( although Rogue's body is now dominated by the personality of Ms. Marvel ), Firefly is the son of Human Torch and Wasp, Gator is the son of Lizard, Malefactor is the son of Doctor Doom and Enchantress, Moleculon is the son of Molecule Man and Volcana, Mustang is the son of Hawkeye and She-Hulk, Raze is the son of Wrecker, and Torrent is the daughter of Wolverine and Storm.

Actually, the origins of this bathing establishment go back to the Middle Ages when it was known as the Bagno della Crociata ( so named either after a Crusader who supposedly discovered the spring or from a corruption of the Italian word for crutch ).

It became the headquarters of the dwindling Kingdom of Jerusalem, and the base of operations for any future military attempts by the Crusaders against the Egyptian Mamluks, who for their part were systematically conquering any last Crusader strongholds on the mainland.

Bonsall had bought out Television Arts Productions and gained the rights to Crusader Rabbit, after a long legal battle among Jay Ward and Alex Anderson, Jerry Fairbanks and NBC over who owned the series.

The newly installed government of Prime Minister John Curtin in Australia, on Blamey's advice, took up the matter with Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who protested that the relief would cause a postponement of Operation Crusader.

In 1963 Chahine made Saladin ( original title: El Nasser – defender / deliverer – Salah ed-Dine ), an epic, three-hour film in CinemaScope named after the 12th Century Sultan who, as the film begins, is preparing to liberate Jerusalem from its Christian Crusader occupiers.

After repelling a Crusader invasion of the Nile Delta, as-Salih Ayyub's Mamluk generals overthrew al-Mu ' azzam Turanshah who succeeded Ayyub as Sultan after his death in 1250.

After its recapture by the Muslims, the Great Mosque of Nablus, which had become a church under Crusader rule, was restored as a mosque by the Ayyubids, who also built a mausoleum in the old city.

The Crusader army was in debt to the doge of Venice, who had provided their fleet.

Ya ' akov ben Netan ' el, who visited the village in the 12th century during the period of Crusader rule, writes about the ruins of a synagogue quarried into the hill.

Man o ' War sired American Flag and Crusader, who won successive Belmont Stakes in 1925 and 1926.

However, the other Crusader leaders, who saw the necessity for cooperation with the Byzantine Emperor and eastern Christians, were horrified and persuaded Dagobert to call off the blockade.

From 1260 to 1291 the area became the frontier between Mongol invaders ( occasional Crusader allies ) and the Mamluks of Egypt.

Over time, it became known that the Lord Chancellor's court ( the Court of Chancery ) would continually recognize the claim of a returning Crusader.

Thus, the F2H Banshee became the F-2, the F4H Phantom II became the F-4 and the F8U Crusader became the F-8.

As both English and French crusaders had thereby become associated with the symbol, it became the standard Crusader emblem.

In 2002, White became involved with a dispute with Donald Rumsfeld over the proposed cancellation of the Army's Crusader artillery project.

The Samaritan synagogue, built in 362 CE by the high priest Akbon and converted into a church by the Crusaders, was converted into al-Khadra Mosque in 1244 ; and two other Crusader churches became the an-Nasr Mosque and al-Masakim Mosque during that century.

The city became the chief town of the County of Tripoli ( Latin Crusader state of the Levant ) extending from Jubayl to Latakia and including the plain of Akkar with the famous Krak des Chevaliers.

The Principality also produced a unique set of laws, the " Assizes of Romania ", which combined aspects of Byzantine and French law, and became the basis for the laws of the other Crusader States.

As Crusader rule stabilized, Ramla became the seat of a seigneury in the Kingdom of Jerusalem ( the Lordship of Ramla within the County of Jaffa and Ascalon ).

He became known as Robert of Jerusalem ( Robertus Hierosolimitanus ) or Robert the Crusader after his exploits in the First Crusade.

There are archaeological finds, architectural fragments and social history material relating to the Priory site ; seals and numismatics, including an important collection of Crusader coins ; arms and armour, mainly European plate armour but also an example of Turkish Ottoman mail ; drug jars, mortars and weights from the Hospitallers ' pharmacy in Malta ; decorative arts ( portrait medals, ceramics, glass, silver, furniture, jewellery, insignia, textiles, ecclesiastical vestments ) reflecting the tastes of the European aristocrats who joined the Order and became significant patrons of the arts.

As the Crusader losses mounted, the Turks became more aggressive and the Crusader army found itself forced from the marshy banks of the river into the shallows.

Another Sinai icon, of the Crusader period and painted by a French artist working in the Holy Land in the second half of the 12th century, shows what then became the most common depiction.

By his death in 1282, Michael had taken back the Aegean islands, Thessaly, Epirus, and most of Achaea, including the Crusader fortress of Mystras, which became the seat of a Byzantine despotate.

Of note, during a mission on September 9, 1965 they became the first squadron to deliver 2, 000-pound MK-84 bombs from an F-8 Crusader that had launched from an aircraft carrier.

His goal became the destruction of the Crusader states, and the strengthening of Islam through jihad ; he had already set up religious schools and new mosques in Aleppo, and expelled those he considered heretics from his territory, especially Shiites.

Starting with issue # 59 The Brave & the Bold became, more specifically a Batman team-up book with the Caped Crusader as the book's main focus.

In 1261, after he became a Sultan, he established a puppet Abbasid caliphate in Cairo, and the Mamluks fought the remnants of the Crusader states in Palestine until they finally captured Acre in 1291.

In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Crusader states disintegrated and the Mongols became islamized, leaving the Armenian Kingdom without any regional allies.

Maffitt became commander of USS Crusader in 1859 and continued his assignment to suppress slavers in the West Indies until February 7, 1861.