As I mentioned I am reading DEVIL'S BROOD which is packed full of interesting bits of history. It is interesting that Eleanor's sons were knighted so late, the politics is very interesting to becoming a knight and what it meant. Also the whole crusades events affected so many things. I seem to have a number of ancestors who fought in the crusades and am compiling a list of references so I can see if I can find out more about them and their escapades, so far I have the following of which additions/corrections are appreciated (not interested in fiction, enough of that going around in genealogies now). Thanks, Jim.

Billings, Malcolm - THE CROSS & THE CRESCENT. A HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES.
Edbury, Peter W. - THE KINGDOM OF CYPRUS AND THE CRUSADES 1191-1374.
Kennedy, Hugh - CRUSADER CASTLES.
Nicholson, Helen & David Nicolle - GOD’S WARRIORS: KNIGHTS TEMPLAR, SARACENS AND THE BATTLE FOR JERUSALEM.
Nicolle, David & Christa Hook - KNIGHT OF OUTREMER 1187-1344 AD. (Warrior Series).
Nicolle, David - THE SECOND CRUSADE 1148: DISASTER OUTSIDE DAMASCUS.
Oldenbourg, Zoe - THE CRUSADES.
Payne, Robert - THE DREAM AND THE TOMB. A HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES.
Riley-Smith, Jonathan - THE FEUDAL NOBILITY AND THE KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM 1174-1277.
Riley-Smith, Jonathan - THE OXFORD HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES.
Williams, Jay - KNIGHTS OF THE CRUSADES.
Wise, Terence & G.A. Embleton - ARMIES OF THE CRUSADES (Men-at-Arms Series).