The so-called Templar of Tyre is the third and longest section of an important 14th-century chronicle known as the Gestes des Chiprois. Written by a Cypriot knight who served the Templar Master William of Beaujeu, the Templar provides precious contemporary insights, often drawn from the author's personal experience, into events beginning in the early 1230s and ending in 1309 in the East and 1314 in the West. It covers the last days of the mainland Crusader states and provides our only eyewitness chronicle of the fall of Acre in 1291.
The so-called Templar of Tyre is the third and longest section of an important 14th-century chronicle known as the Gestes des Chiprois. Written by a C...
