Third Crusade
(With my thanks to John Hosler)
The Continuator(s) of William of Tyre. (Also referred to as the Chronique d’Ernoul, or the Eracles Chronicle)
(1) The Lyons Eracles
Old French edition: La Continuation de Guillaume de Tyr (1184-1197). ed. Margaret Ruth Morgan, Paris: 1982.
Translation: The Conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade: Sources in translation, trans. P.W. Edbury (Aldershot, 1998)
(2) Chronique d’Ernoul
Chronique d’Ernoul et de Bernard le Tresorier, ed. M.L. de Mas Latrie (paris, 1871).
(3) Colbert-Fontainebleau Eracles
“L’Estoire de Eracles empereur et las conquest de la Terre d’Outremer,” in Recueil des historiens des croisades. Historiens occidentaux, vol. 2 (Paris, 1859).
(4) Florentine Eracles
La continuation de Guillaume de Tyr, ed. Morgan, pp. 9-12 and 14.
Historia de Expeditione Friderici imperatoris
Chroust, Anton. Historia de expeditione Friderici imperatoris et quidam alii rerum gestarum fontes eiusdem expeditionis MGH SS rerum Germanicarum, NS 5. Berlin: 1928.
English translation: Loud, G.A.. The Crusade of Frederick Barbarossa: The History of the Expedition of the Emperor Frederick and Related Texts. Translated by G.A. Loud. Farnham: 2010.
Richardus, Canonicus sanctae trinitatis Londoniensis. Itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta regis ricardi.
Latin edition: “Itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta regis Ricardi,” in Chronicles and Memorials of the Reign of Richard I, ed. W. Stubbs, 2 vols, Rolls Series (London, 1864-5).
The Chronicle of the Third Crusade: The Itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta regis Ricardi, trans. H.J. Nicholson, Crusade Texts in Translation (Farnham, 1997)
Baha a din
The rare and excellent history of Saladin, or, al-Nawādir al-Sulṭāniyya wa’l-Maḥāsin al-Yūsufiyya / by Bahāʼ al-Dīn Ibn Shaddād ; translated by D.S. Richards. Ashgate 2001.
Gerard of Wales
Latin. “Itinerarium Kambriae,” in Giraldi Cambrensis opera, ed. G.F. Warner, 8 vols, Rolls Series (London, 1891).
English translation: The Jounrey through Wales and the description of Wales, translated with an introduction by Lewis Thorpe. Hammondsworth, Penguin, 1978.
Anonymous1
“De expugnatione civitatis Acconensis,” in Chronica magistri Rogeri de Houedene, ed. W. Stubbs, 3 vols, Rolls Series (London, 1868-71), 3.cvi–cxxxvi.
Anonymous2
“Libellus de expugnatione terrae sanctae per Saladinum,” in Radulphi de Coggeshall Chronicon Anglicanum, ed. J. Stevenson, Rolls Series (London, 1875), 209-62.
Anonymous 3
“Ein zeitgenossisches Gedicht auf die Belagerung Accons,” in Forschungen zur deutschen Geschichte, ed. H. Protz, vol. 21 (Gottingen, 1881), 449-94.
Ansbert
The Deeds of Barbarossa
Quellen zur Geschichte des Kreuzzuges Kaiser Friedrichs I, ed. A. Chroust, Monumenta Germania Historica, Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum, New Blasi en Series 5 {Berlin, 1928).
The Crusade of Frederick Barbarossa: The history of the expedition of the Emperor Frederick and related texts, trans. G.A. Loud (Farnham, 2013).
Otto of Saint Blaise.
Ottonis de Sancto Blasio chronica, ed. A. Hofmeister, Monumenta Germania Historica, Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum (Hanover, 1912).
The Crusade of Frederick Barbarossa: The history of the expedition of the Emperor Frederick and related texts, trans. G.A. Loud (Farnham, 2013).
Richard Devizes
Latin Edition: “The chronicle of Richard of Devizes,” in Chronicles of the Reigns of Stephen, Henry II and Richard I, ed. R. Howlett, 4 vols, Rolls Series (London, 1886).
The Chronicle of Richard of Devizes, concerning the Deeds of Richard I, king of England, and Richard of Cirencester’s Description of Britain, trans .J.A. Giles (London, 1841).
Howden l
Gesta regis Henrici secundi Benedicti abbatis, ed. W. Stubbs, 2 vols, Rolls Series (London, 1867).
Howden 2
Chronica magistri Rogeri de Houedene, ed. W. Stubbs, 3 vols, Rolls Series (London, 1868-71).
The Annals of Roger de Hoveden, trans. H.T. Riley, 2 vols (Reprint, New York, 1968).
Ambroise
The History of the Holy War: Ambroise’s Estoire de la Guerre Sainte, ed. and trans. M. Ailes and M. Barber, 2 vols (Woodbridge, 2003).
Ralph of Coggeshall
Radulphi de Coggeshall Chronicon Anglicanum, De expugnatione terrae sanctae libel/us, Thomas Agnellus V e morte et sepultura Henrici regis Angliae junioris; Gesta Fulconis filii Warini; Excerpta ex Otiis imperialibus Gervasii Tilebutiensis, ed. J. Stevenson, 3 vols, Rolls Series (London, 1875).
Ibn al-Athir
The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir far the Crusading Period from al-Mail fi’l-Ta’rikh, trans. D.S. Richards, Crusade Texts in Translation, 3 vols (Reprint, Farnham, 2010).
Ibn Shaddad
The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin by Baha’ al-Din Ibn Shaddad, trans. D.S. Richards, Crusade Texts in Translation (Farnham, 2002).
‘Imad al-Din
“Les livres des deux jardins: histoire des deux regnes, celui de Nour Ed-Din et celui de Salah Ed Din,” in Recueil des historiens des croisades, historiens Orientaux, vol. 4 (Paris, 1898).
Arab Historians of the Crusades: Selected and translated from the Arabic sources, ed. and trans. F. Gabriell (Berkeley, 1984)
Itinerarium l
Das Itinerarium peregrinorum: eine zeitgenossiche englische Chronik zum dritten Kreuzzug in urspriinglicher Gestalt, ed. H.E. Mayer (Stuttgart, 1962).
William of Newburgh
William of Newburgh, The History of English Affairs, ed. and trans. P.G. Walsh and M.J. Kennedy, 2 vols (Oxford, 2007-11); or “Historia rerum Anglicarum,” ed. R. Howlett, in Chronicles of the Reigns of Stephen, Henry ll, and Richard I, 2 vols, Rolls Series (London, 1884-5).
The History of William of Newburgh, trans. Stevenson (London, 1856).
Revised regesta regni Hierosolymitani Database
http://crusades-regesta.com
Rigord
Oeuvres de Rigord et de Guillaume le Breton, historiens de Philippe-Auguste, ed. H.F. Delaborde (Paris, 1882).
Rigord. Histoire de Philippe Auguste. Edited by Élisabeth Carpentier; Georges Pon; Yves Chauvin, Sources d’histoire médiévale 33. Paris 2006. (Facing page translation into modern French)
Ralph of Diceto
Radulfi de Diceto decanis Lundoniensis opera historica, ed. W. Stubbs, 2 vols, Rolls Series (London, 1876).
Robert of Turnham
Chronica monasterii de Melsa, ed. E. Bond, 3 vols., Roll Series (London, 1868).
NB: The remembrances of Robert of Turnham, as recorded in the 14th-century Meaux chronicle. He journeyed with Richard I to Cyprus but then stayed there when Richard sailed onto Acre.
The Latin continuation of William of Tyre (as opposed to the Old French)
Das lateinische Fortsetzung Wilhelms von Tyrus, ed. M. Salloch (Leipzig, 1934).
The letters of Al-Qādī al-Fādīl
“Les livres des deux jardins: histoire des deux règnes, celui de Nour Ed- Dìn et celui de Salah Ed Dìn,” Recueil des historiens des croisades, historiens Orientaux, vol. 4 (Paris, 1898).
NB: His letters are excerpted by Abu Shama alongside Imad al-Din’s chronicle.
Arnold of Lübeck, Chronica Slavorum
Chronica Slavorum, ed. Johann Martin Lappenberg and L. Weiland. MGHSS 21 (Hanover: 1968), 100-250.
Graham A. Loud ed., The Chronicle of Arnold of Lübeck. Crusade Texts in Translation, Routledge (London: 2019).