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HEROINES OF CRUSADES.




  HEROINES
  OF THE
  CRUSADES

  _Adela Countess of Blois.
  Eleanor of Aquitaine.
  Berengaria of Navarre.
  Isabella of Angouleme.
  Violante of Jerusalem.
  Eleanor of Castile._

  BY C. A. BLOSS.

  "Old Historic rolls I opened."

  Engraved by J. C. Buttre.




  HEROINES OF THE CRUSADES.


  BY C. A. BLOSS.
  AUTHOR OF "BLOSS'S ANCIENT HISTORY," ETC.


  "Old historic rolls I opened."


  AUBURN:
  ALDEN, BEARDSLEY & CO.
  ROCHESTER:
  WANZER, BEARDSLEY & CO.
  1853.




Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1853, BY ALDEN,
BEARDSLEY & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United
States for the Northern District of New York.




  TO MY PUPILS,
  The "Heroines of the Crusades"
  IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
  BY THE AUTHOR.




PREFACE.


To those whom it has been my privilege and pleasure to lead through the
devious and darkened paths of the Past, to all who cordially receive the
doctrine that _actions_ and not faint desires for Excellence form the
character, I address a few words by way of explanation and Preface.

Jerusalem, the capital of Palestine, whether glorious in the beauty of her
first temple, and the excellent wisdom of her philosopher king, or