Richard the Lionheart is the most valiant warrior of the era. Then why does he always have no money? Princess Berengaria of Navarre is the most beautiful bride in Europe. Then why doesn’t the English king want to marry her? Queen Mother Eleanor of Poitou is smart and experienced. But why is Britain becoming poorer every day and the Third Crusade is in danger of being disrupted? Sicily is a remote and small island in the Mediterranean Sea. But why did he become the cause of bloody strife between the great European kings? Count Conrad of Montferrat is a good Catholic. But why does he make friends with a Muslim - the famous Sultan of Egypt Salah ad-Din? The twelfth century would not have been able to answer these questions on its own. However, adventurers unforeseen by the chroniclers intervened in the predetermined course of the history of the early Middle Ages: the Norman knight Sir Michel de Farmer and his mysterious squires - Gunther von Reichert and Sergei Kazakov... The history of a century of great battles and mysterious intrigues is before you!