The Swan Crusader

For the reason Muslim terrorists have attacked the Arts and Journalism, my newspaper will publish the stories of sincere Crusaders. One of them was a woman given the name  Swanhilde.

Thierry returns from Jerusalem with the Holy Blood.

On this site is a statue of Sibylla and her husband, Thierry, who went to the Holy Land to liberate to roots of the Christian-Judaic religion. Swanhilde means ‘Swan Battle’.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thierry,_Count_of_Flanders

Jon Presco

Sibylla then accompanied her widower father to the crusaderKingdom of Jerusalem, where he married Melisende, the heiress of the kingdom, and became king himself in 1131. In 1139 she married Thierry, Count of Flanders, who had arrived on his first pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

Robert the Frisian made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1086 and on the return trip home spent time assisting the Byzantine Emperor (Alexios I Komnenos) against the Seljuq Turks.