Godfrey de Bouillon, Defender of the Holy Sepulchre

This is a meticulously researched but fictionalized telling of the First Crusade and the life of one of its major leaders, Godfrey de Bouillon, from his birth to Saint Ida and her husband Eustace -- who fought with William the Conqueror in England -- to his death in Jerusalem after leading the victorious First Crusade.