In a short 2 minute video podcast made by History Extra, TMW’s Natasha Hodgson sets out her top 5 figures of the Crusades, including Margaret of Beverley, who fought Saladin’s besieging army on the walls of Jerusalem with a cooking pot on her head, and Alice princess of Antioch, Melisende of Jerusalem’s lesser-known sister who ruled as regent on behalf of her daughter in Antioch.
Watch the full video here: