Editing Sixth Crusade (section)

==Primary sources==
The [[wiktionary:historiographic|historiography]] of the Sixth Crusade is concerned with the "history of the histories" of the military campaigns discussed herein as well as biographies of the important figures of the period. The [[primary source]]s include works written in the medieval period, generally by participants in the Crusade or written contemporaneously with the event. The primary Western sources of the Sixth Crusade include several eyewitness accounts, and are as follows.

* [[Estoire d'Eracles|''Estoire d’Eracles émperor'']] (History of Heraclius) is an anonymous history of Jerusalem down to 1277, a continuation of [[William of Tyre|William of Tyre's]] work and drawing from both [[Ernoul]] and the [[Rothelin Continuation]].{{sfn|Mylod|2017|pp=163–174|loc=Ernoul, Eracles and the Fifth Crusade}}
*''Historia Orientalis'' (''Historia Hierosolymitana'') and ''Epistolae,'' by theologian and historian [[Jacques de Vitry]].<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|title=James of Vitry (died 1240)|encyclopedia=The Crusades – An Encyclopedia|last=Bird|first=Jessalynn|pages=653–654}}</ref>
*''[[Flores Historiarum]]'', by English chronicler [[Roger of Wendover]],<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Roger of Wendover|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopedia-of-the-medieval-chronicle/roger-of-wendover-SIM_02210?s.num=17|last=Ruch|first=Lisa M.|date=2016}}</ref> covering the period from 1188 up to 1235.<ref>[[John Allen Giles|Giles, J. A. (John Allen)]] (1849). [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000199089/Home Roger of Wendover's Flowers of history]. London: H. G. Bohn.</ref>
*''[[Chronica Majora|Grand chronique]],<ref>Paris, M., Huillard-Bréholles, J. Louis Alphonse. (1840–1844). [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006301522/Home Grande chronique de Matthieu Paris]. Paris.</ref>'' by English chronicler [[Matthew Paris]].
*''Gestes des Chiprois'' (Deeds of the Cypriots),<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Minervini|first=Laura|date=2004|title=Les Gestes des Chiprois et la tradition historiographique de l'Orient latin|url=https://www.cairn.info/revue-le-moyen-age-2004-2-page-315.htm#|journal=Le Moyen Age|volume=CX |issue=2 |pages=315–325 |doi=10.3917/rma.102.0315 }}</ref> by several authors including [[Philip of Novara]]. Includes ''The wars of Frederick II against the Ibelins in Syria and Cyprus''.<ref>Philippus, d. Rotingo., La Monte, J. L., Hubert, M. Jerome. (1936). [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000672316/Home The wars of Frederick II against the Ibelins in Syria and Cyprus]. New York: Columbia university press.</ref>
*''Historia diplomatica Frederici secundi,<ref>Huillard-Bréholles, J. Louis Alphonse., Luynes, H. Théodoric Paul Joseph dA̕lbert. (185261). [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000412339/Home Historia diplomatica Friderici Secundi]. Parisiis.</ref>'' a history of the diplomacy of Frederick II, by French archivist and historian Jean L. Huillard-Bréholles.<ref>Deutsche Biographie (1974). "[https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd100762190.html Huillard-Bréholles, Jean Louis Alphonse] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230130075952/https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd100762190.html |date=2023-01-30 }}". In ''Neue Deutsche Biographie'' (NDB). '''10'''. Berlin.</ref>
*''Ryccardi di Sancto Germano Notarii Chronicon,'' by [[Richard of San Germano]].<ref>Donnadieu, Jean. "[https://www.cairn-int.info/article-E_RMA_242_0283--narratio-patriarcae-the-origin-and.htm?contenu=resume ''Narratio patriarcae''. The origin and destiny of a story about the Muslim Middle East circa 1200]", ''Le Moyen Age'', Vol. CXXIV, No. 2, 2018, pp. 283–305.</ref>
The Arabic sources of the Crusade include the following.

* [[The Complete History|''Complete Work of History'']], particularly ''Part 3:'' ''The Years 589–629/1193–1231. The Ayyubids after Saladin and the Mongol Menace,''<ref>Richards, D. S. (2020). [https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Chronicle_of_Ibn_al_Athir_for_the_Cr.html?id=wOzeDwAAQBAJ The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for the Crusading Period from al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh. Part 3]. Routledge.</ref> by [[Ali ibn al-Athir]], an Arab or Kurdish historian.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Ibn al-Athir (1160–1233)|encyclopedia=The Crusades – An Encyclopedia|last=Kennedy|first=Hugh|page=625}}</ref>
* ''Kitāb al-rawḍatayn'' (The Book of the Two Gardens) and its sequel ''al-Dhayl ʿalā l-rawḍatayn'', by Arab historian [[Abū Shāma]].<ref>Antrim, Zayde, “[https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3/abu-shama-shihab-al-din-al-maqdisi-COM_22839 Abū Shāma Shihāb al-Dīn al-Maqdisī]”. In: Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd Edition. Kate Fleet, et al. (ed.)</ref>
* ''Tarikh al-Mukhtasar fi Akhbar al-Bashar'' (History of Abu al-Fida), by Kurdish historian [[Abu'l-Fida|Abu’l-Fida]].<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Abū al-Fidā|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopedia-of-the-medieval-chronicle/abu-al-fida-SIM_00006?s.num=8|last=Kreckel|first=Manuel|date=2016}}</ref>
* ''History of Egypt,'' by Egyptian historian [[Al-Maqrizi|Al-Makrizi]].<ref name=":26">al-Maqrīzī, A. ibn ʻAlī. (1845). [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008694437/Home Histoire des Sultans Mamlouks de l'Égypte]. Paris.</ref>
*''The Necklace of Pearls'' (''Perles d’Historie''), by Arab Islamic scholar [[Badr al-Din al-Ayni]].<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|title=al-'Ayni, Badr al-Din|encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of Islam|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3/al-ayni-badr-al-din-COM_23108?s.num=40&s.start=40|last=Marmon|first=Shaun E.|date=September 2014 |edition=3rd}}</ref>
*''[[History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria]],'' begun in the 10th century, and continued into the 13th century.

Many of these primary sources can be found in [[Crusade Texts in Translation]]. German historian [[Reinhold Röhricht]] also compiled two collections of works concerning the Sixth Crusade: ''Beiträge zur Geschichte der Kreuzzüg'' (1888),<ref>Röhricht, R. (1874–1878). [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005872856/Home Beiträge zur geschichte der kreuzzüge]. Berlin.</ref> ''Geschichte der Kreuzzüge im Umriss'' (1898),<ref>Röhricht, R. (1898). [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000632843/Home Geschichte der kreuzzüge im umriss]. Innsbruck.</ref> and ''Die Kreuzfahrt Kaiser Friedrich des Zweiten (1228–1229)'' (1872). He also collaborated on the work ''[[Annales de Terre Sainte]]'' that provides a chronology of the Crusade correlated with the original sources.{{sfn|Röhricht|1884|pp=12–14|loc=Annales de Terre Sainte}}