Illustration from

Histoire d'Outremer

par Guillaume de Tyr
traduction française avec continuation jusqu'en 1249

[By William of Tyre - French translation with continuation until 1249]

Saint-Jean-d'Acre, Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1280

Lyon - Bibliothèque Municipale - Ms 828



f.033 Bohémond assiégeant d'Antioche (fin 1097-milieu 1098),
Bohemond besieging Antioch (late 1097-mid 1098)

Referenced on p.50, WAR - 091 Knight Templar 1120-1312 by H. Nicholson:
A siege scene from a late 13th century manuscript of the First Crusade, showing a team of armoured men pulling the ropes of a man-powered perrière a stone-throwing siege engine. The Templars had a perrière at the siege of Acre, 1189-91, during the Third Crusade. Note the relatively accurate representations of Muslim soldiers inside the castle.

Referenced on p.174, God's Warriors, Knights Templar, Saracens and the Battle for Jerusalem by Helen Nicholson & David Nicolle:
A siege scene from a late 13th-century manuscript of the First Crusade, showing a team of armoured men pulling the ropes of a man-powered perière, a stone-throwing siege engine. The Templars had a perière at the siege of Acre, 1189-91, during the Third Crusade. Note the relatively accurate representation of Muslim soldiers inside the castle.

Back to illustrations in Histoire d'Outremer, Lyon - BM - Ms 828, Saint-Jean-d'Acre, Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1280AD.