The Templar of Tyre (French: Le Templier de Tyr) is the name of a medieval historian, and the document which he wrote in the 1300s. It is the third and largest section of the Gestes des Chiprois. It is believed that the document was written by a knight on the island of Cyprus, around the time that the island was the base of operations for the three major military orders, the Knights Templar, the Teutonic Knights, and the Knights Hospitallers. The author of the document was probably an Arabic-speaking translator, a secretary and confidant of the Templar Master William of Beaujeu, though not a Templar himself. For other uses, see Knights Templar (disambiguation). ... For the state, see Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights. ... The Knights Hospitaller (the or Knights of Malta or Knights of Rhodes) is a tradition which began as a Benedictine nursing Order founded in the 11th century based in the Holy Land, but soon became a militant Christian Chivalric Order under its own charter, and was charged with the care... Arabic can mean: From or related to Arabia From or related to the Arabs The Arabic language; see also Arabic grammar The Arabic alphabet, used for expressing the languages of Arabic, Persian, Malay ( Jawi), Kurdish, Panjabi, Pashto, Sindhi and Urdu, among others. ... Guillaume de Beaujeu, also known as William of Beaujeu was the 21st Grand Master of the Knights Templar, from 1273 until his death during the siege of Acre in 1291. ...

The document provides a first-hand account of the personal experiences of the author, and gives valuable insight to an important period of the Crusades, documenting a period from the early 1230s until about 1314. It covers the final days of the Christian activities in the Holy Land, as they were fighting a losing battle against the Muslim Mamluks, and such important events as the Fall of Acre in 1291, and the dissolution of the Order of the Knights Templar in the early 1300s. Written in French, there is an English translation available. This article is about the medieval crusades. ... For other uses, see Holy Land (disambiguation). ... An Ottoman Mamluk, from 1810 Mamluks (or Mameluks) (the Arabic word usually translates as owned, singular: مملوك plural: مماليك) comprised slave soldiers used by the Muslim Caliphs and the Ottoman Empire, and who on more than one occasion seized power for... The Siege of Acre took place in 1291 and resulted in the fall of Acre, the last territory of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. ...

References

• Malcolm Barber (2001). The Trial of the Templars, 2nd edition, University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-0-521-67236-8.

• Templar of Tyre, Paul Crawford (2003). Templar of Tyre: The Deeds of the Cypriots. ISBN 1840146184 (English translation)

Malcolm Barber is a scholar of medieval history, described as the worlds leading expert on the Knights Templar. ...

External links

• Gestes des Chiprois, at the Medieval Sourcebook