Fantasy about The Knights Templar/The Crusades?
Posted Mar 19, 2014, 10:12 PM UTC
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No knights Templar, but definitely knights and crusades, check out The Dagger and the Cross and sequel by Judith Tarr.
Also, fantasy author Katherine Kurtz and her husband collaborated on a book that involved the Knights Templar, can't recall the title straight off the bat but an investigation on GoodReads or LibraryThing ought to locate it.
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The Crusades and the Knights Templar play a huge role in the backstory of my novel, The Dark Thorn. Might be fun to read an excerpt and see if it is to your liking.
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If I remember correctly, Caiseal Mor writes that sort of thing.
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Glenn Cook's Instrumentalities of the Night is set in a fantasy-version Europe and Middle East at the time of the 3rd crusade. The story mostly plays out in Europe though.
Overall not Cook's best work, but I think the story it picks up nicely after the first book, and it's sorta fun trying to figure out the real-life counterparts of countries and political figures (which all come with fake names).
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Look for Chaz Brenchley's Outremer series, starting with The Tower of the King's Daughter -- the UK/Cdn series is three books, the US release was six, I believe.
Roq de Rançon is, essentially, the Krak des Chevalier. We have three Fantasy versions of the same god, holy orders... ...this is pretty much exactly what you are looking for, with one exception. Although there are Templars, the four main characters are not knights.
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I haven't read it, but I believe that David Hair's Mage's Blood is the first in a series loosely based on the Crusades.
The ebook was $2.99 at Amazon the other day, though I'm not sure if that sale is still running.
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Alamut is a great book. It is historical fantasy, and the focus is more on the hashishin, but its still amazing.
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You'll probably want to look at R. Scott Bakker's The Darkness that Came Before.
The first trilogy (well, the first two books, anyway) is absolutely the First Crusade -- but there is a pretty thick veil over it.