ABSTRACT
The chronicle commonly attributed to the 'Templar of Tyre' is the single most important surviving account of the last days of the mainland crusader states. It is, for example, 1 the only chronicle with a contemporary eyewitness account of the fall of Acre in 1291, and it is the most reliable source we possess for much of the history of the Latin East between the 1230s and 1240s, when it begins, and the early fourteenth century (it breaks off in the middle of the events of 1309, after having made reference to events in 13142). It is the third section of a longer work known since the nineteenth century as the Gestes des Chiprois,3 a history which in its original form may have begun with Adam (or perhaps with the First Crusade) and ended sometime between 1314 and 1343 (probably before 1321 and almost certainly not later than 1324). As such, it lies within the tradition of the Annales de Terre Sainte, the 'Annals of the Holy Land', rather than the tradition of William of Tyre and his continuators.
