William of Tyre, Saintes Chroniques d’Outremer.
 
Date Description Source Reference
14th century. Seven bell tents and two pavilions, all have the golden ball apexes, the bell tents have; red, black and white aprons to attached to the ball apexes. 

The pavilion on the right has a red roof with a black scalloped ridge decoration. The pavilion on the left has got a white roof with a similar roof ridge decoration.

 “Defeat of the Turks at Dorylaeum 1097 by Godfrey de Bouillon during the First Crusade...(Saintes Chroniques d’Outremer).” Bibliothèque National, Paris. 

“The Frankish victory at Dorylaeum...” 

p.391, “The battle of Dorylaeum (William of Tyre, op. cit., French, 14th century, BN MS Fr. 352 f. 49).”

  Koch, H.W., Medieval Warfare, London, 1978, p. 104 -105. 
 

Hallam, E., Ed., Chronicles of the Crusades, Eyewitness Accounts of the Wars between Christianity and Islam, New Jersey, 1997, p. 75. 

Billings, M., The Crusades, Five Centuries of Holy Wars, New York, 1996, p. 41.

Note: Very similar to Guillaum de Tyr: Historie de Jerusalem
 
Other works attributed to William of Tyre:

1250-1260 A.D. (William of Tyre)
 
1275 A.D. (Guillaume de Tyr, Chronique d'Outremer)

13th century (Guillaume de Tyr, Historie de Jerusalem, The Fall of Jerusalem)

15th century (William of Tyre, Emperor Manuel Comnemus and Baldwin II)


More information:

William of Tyre, Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum (History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea)

William of Tyre according to the Catholic Encyclopedia

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