Chastelet

The castle ruins seen from above.

Chastelet was a castle located beside Jacob's Ford, a ford of the upper Jordan River in Israel. The castle was built during the Crusades by the Knights Templar and the forces of the Kingdom of Jerusalem but was destroyed by the army of Saladin in 1179.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Jones, Dan (2017). The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors. Viking. pp. 178–186. ISBN 978-0525428305.
  2. ^ Ellenblum, R. (2009). Crusader Castles and Modern Histories. Cambridge University Press. p. 264. ISBN 9780511497247.
  3. ^ Jotischky, Andrew (2017). Crusading and the Crusader States. Taylor and Francis. p. 105. ISBN 9781351983921.

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