| As with my previous quiz about modern countries that had medieval crusaders (http://www.sporcle.com/games/AdamBishop/CrusadeCountries), there's no single source for this. I used "The First Crusaders, 1095-1131" by Jonathan Riley-Smith (especially Appendix 1) and "Anatomy of a Crusade, 1213-1221" by James M. Powell (especially Appendix 2), “The Second Crusade: Expanding The Frontiers of Christendom” by Jonathan Phillips, “The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople”, also by Phillips, “The Crusade of Frederick Barbarossa” by Graham Loud, the Crusades Encyclopedia (ed. Alan V. Murray), and the six-volume University of Wisconsin History of the Crusades (which is online, http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/History/subcollections/HistCrusadesAbout.html). The majority of names are from the First, Second, Third, and Fifth crusades, but there are also some from the Fourth, Sixth through Ninth, the Reconquista in Spain and the Mediterranean, Albigensian, Northern/Baltic, and Nicopolis crusades. I’ve given an example crusader and the approximate year they were on crusade, generally the earliest name and year (but not always). I tried to include names that would be clues to their origin, but that wasn’t always possible (considering how many people are named “Hugh” or “Henry”). To make things simpler I divided the answers into a general geographic area, generally (but again not always) following who owed service to whom (e.g. some places in modern France were in medieval Germany, and vice versa). Otherwise the list is mainly alphabetical. Hopefully these clues will be helpful. The main problem, of course, is what is a “state”. I tried to use crusaders who had some measure of authority over an area larger than their own personal property, so a random knight whose authority never extended past his own house won’t be in this quiz. Nobility who were essentially independent, even when they technically owed feudal service to a higher noble, are for the most part included, even down to some minor lo |
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