Knight Crusader
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| Author(s) | Ronald Welch |
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| Series | Carey Family - Book 1 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
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| Seventeen-year-old Philip learns the skills of a knight in his father's castle in 12th-century Jerusalem. Bravely surviving Saracen attack, he joins Richard the Lionhearted in the Third Crusade before returning to England to claim his ancestral estate. | |
Philip D`Aubigny is a Norman knight fighting as a Crusader in the Frankish Kingdom of Outremer (a general name for the Crusader states established after the First Crusade). The Crusaders were woefully short of knights and the Turks had at last found a leader in Saladin. He united them and was ready to embark on a Holy War against Outremer.
