ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the subject of crusade memory from a different perspective, namely, the way in which families researched, celebrated, and sometimes invented a crusade ancestor and pedigree. Sir Michael was subsequently included in later lists of crusaders by Jeremiah Wiffen and Dansey and quoted by authors of crusade histories, such as Charles Mills, so the story gained its own momentum. One important source for the names of English crusaders seems to have been a list of over 300 coats of arms of knights said to have been with Richard I at the siege of Acre. Ashmole 1120 was quoted as a source for two lists of crusaders published in the nineteenth century by Wiffen and Dansey and cited by later histories. Its full title was The English Crusaders; Containing an Account of All the English Knights who Formed Part of the Expeditions for the Recovery of the Holy Land.
