The IC issues still remain despite the time space rip in the game. Those knights were part of the original crusade armies. TC listed them in this Chancellor's report:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...5&postcount=67

The integrity of the game should take precedence over stories developed from the game. Also the use of console commands would require a charter amendment, i.e. giving money to AI factions, and this was not done.

So despite OOC shenanigans, the IC fact remains that Crusade forces were stripped, one way or the other, from the Crusade armies. This makes Otto cranky.

OOC, the knights should be returned using the same console commands used to take them away, IC the knights would be assigned back to the trailing crusade army.