List of Crusader castles

This is a list of castles in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, founded or occupied during the Crusades.

For crusader castles in Poland and the Baltic states, see Ordensburg.

There were two major phases of the deliberate destruction (slighting) of Crusader castles: in 1187 by Saladin and after 1260 by the Mamluks.

The intention was often to prevent the castles being reused by the Crusaders.

[2] Of the architecture built by the Crusaders, castles have drawn special attention and by the late 1990s has been more closely studies than ecclesiastical Crusader architecture.