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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

William of Tyre (c. 1130–c. 1190)

William of Tyre. A Syrian historian; born about 1137. He was archbishop of Tyre (1175). He wrote ‘History of the Sovereigns of the East,’ and ‘History of Events in the Lands across the Sea,’ a fine record of the Crusades from 1127 to 1184, first printed in 1549.