Excerpt from "The Capture of Jerusalem, 1244," in Matthew of Paris's Chronica Majora (1258)
Originally written by Master of the Hospitallers at Jerusalem, Tolord de Melaye; Reprinted in "Letters of the Crusaders," Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of European History; Translated by Dana C. Munro; Published in 1896

Excerpt from "The Fall of Acre, 1291," in Description of the Holy Land and the Way Thither (1350)
Originally written by Ludolph of Suchem; Reprinted in The Crusades: A Documentary History; Edited by James Brundage; Published in 1962

The thirteenth century brought an end to the Crusader states in the Holy Land. These Christian kingdoms had held on from their creation in 1099 by a combination of aid from Europe; military strength...