Historical map of the Levant (modern-day Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan & Syria) showing the Kingdom of Jerusalem and its neighbour states as they were during the Crusader period.

There were eight major crusades from 1095-1270AD. The Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem was established after the First Crusade in 1099.

A large panel on the lower right chronicles the Christian Kings of Jerusalem from Godfrey of Bouillon, the first King, to John IV who died as a child in 1474. The Crown then became nominally Venetian although the Kingdom had been unofficially absorbed into the Egyptian Mamluk Sultanate many years previously.

Original colour. [MEAST4640]