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	Urban II - Speech at Council of Clermont - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/urban2-5vers.html Includes five versions of the speech as written down by witnesses.
	Guy, A Knight: - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1249sixthcde-let.html A letter written in 1249 by a French knight serving in the Sixth Crusade.
	Medieval Sourcebook: William of Tyre: Deeds Done Beyond the Sea - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/tyre-cde.html Excerpts from William's history, written towards the end of the twelfth century.
	Medieval Sourcebook: Summons to A Crusade - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/eugene3-2cde.html Translation of Pope Eugene's call for the Second Crusade, of Dec 1, 1154.
	Letter from the East to Master of Hospitalers - http://history.hanover.edu/texts/decline2.html Original text courtesy of the Hanover Historical Texts Project, Hanover College.

	Sibylla, Ex-Queen of Jerusalem - Letter to Frederick I - http://history.hanover.edu/texts/sibyl.htm Original text courtesy of the Hanover Historical Texts Project, Hanover College.
	The Duke of Lorraine - Letter to the Archbishop of Cologne - http://history.hanover.edu/texts/duke.htm Original text courtesy of the Hanover Historical Texts Project, Hanover College.
	Daimbert, Godfrey and Raymond: Letter To the Pope - http://history.hanover.edu/texts/1stcru3.html Original text courtesy of the Hanover Historical Texts Project; Hanover College.
	Gerold, Patriarch of Jerusalem: Letter to all the Faithful - http://history.hanover.edu/texts/gerold.html Original text courtesy of the Hanover Historical Texts Project; Hanover College.
	Stephen, Count of Blois and Chartres: Letter to his wife, Adele - http://history.hanover.edu/texts/1stcrusade2.html Original text courtesy of the Hanover Historical Texts Project; Hanover College.

	Anselme of Ribemont - Letter to Manasses II, Archbishop of Reims - http://history.hanover.edu/texts/1stCrusade1.htm Original text courtesy of the Hanover Historical Texts Project, Hanover College.
	Anna Komnena - The Alexiad - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/AnnaComnena-Alexiad11.html Full text translation of Book XI where the First Crusade is recounted from the point of view of the rulers of the Byzantine Empire.
	Frederick I - Letter to Leopold of Austria - http://history.hanover.edu/texts/frederic.html Original text courtesy of the Hanover Historical Texts Project, Hanover College.
	Aymeric, Patriarch of Antioch - Letter to Louis VII of France - http://history.hanover.edu/texts/decline1.html Original text courtesy of the Hanover Historical Texts Project, Hanover College.
	Frederic II: Letter to Henry III of England - http://history.hanover.edu/texts/fifthcru.html Original text courtesy of the Hanover Historical Texts Project; Hanover College.

	Conrad III - Second Letter to Wibald, Abbot of Corvey - http://history.hanover.edu/texts/2stcru2.html Original text courtesy of the Hanover Historical Texts Project, Hanover College.
	Conrad III - First Letter to Wibald, Abbot of Corvey - http://history.hanover.edu/texts/2stcru1.html Original text courtesy of the Hanover Historical Texts Project, Hanover College.

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