Mediaeval Warfare

HERALDRY AND PEERAGE:

• Burke's Peerage The difinitive historical guide to the UK and Ireland's titled and landed families



• College of Arms The knights taking part in tournaments were recognised by the arms they bore on their shields and the crests they wore on their helmets.



• Heraldry on the Internet References and resources for heraldry from all over Europe.

KNIGHTS:

• Orders of Knights Bibliography and web-links for Knighthood and Orders of Chivalry.



• The Knights Templar The Knights Templar were a monastic military order formed at the end of the First Crusade with the mandate of protecting Christian pilgrims on route to the Holy Land.



• The Teutonic Knights The Teutonic Order has been in existence for over 800 years. As of 2000 there were some 1,090 members.



• The Knights Hospitalers Being an unofficial guide to the chivalric Hospitaller Orders, especially the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, from the First Crusade to the present era.



• Women Knights Female Orders of Knighthood

WARFARE:

• War Engines from The Medieval Centre in Denmark; includes bibliography.



• Seige Engines Here you'll find a lot of pictures and a few words about these amazing pieces of "leverage artillery".



• Medieval Warafre A source page of topics related to war in the Middle Ages.



• De Re Militari The Society for Medieval Military History



• Wikipedia Encyclopedia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.



• PBS-NOVA series The companion Web site to the NOVA program "Medieval Siege," originally broadcast on February 1, 2000.

THE CRUSADES:

• History of the Crusades A searchable database about the Crusades from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.



• Medieval Crusades The Church and The Crusaders - The purpose of this Web Site is to provide information to the curious and students of the Crusades.



• The Medieval Sourcebook Selected sources provided by the Fordham University website.



• Images Images from the collectional of the French National Library.



• The NATURE of Crusades From Crisis Magazine - a publication about Politics, Culture and the Catholic Church.

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