Jean Barthélémy Richard (7 February 1921 – 25 January 2021) was a French historian, who specialized in
medieval history. He was an authority on the
Crusades, and his work on the Latin missions in Asia has been qualified as "unsurpassed".[1] Richard was a member of the
Institut de France. He was President of the prestigious
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 2002. He was born in
Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France in February 1921.[2] Richard died in January 2021, two weeks shy of his 100th birthday.[3]
Publications
Le comté de Tripoli sous la dynastie toulousaine (1102-1187), 1945