By Thomas Asbridge
Ebook
This book is great!. They found a manuscript when is a long poem of the biography of an actual Knight. In the period of Henry II to Eleanor of Acquataine, he served the royals.
Something i didn't realize when I went by it earlier. The importance of.the "White Ship" incident. I didn't bookmark it but I should have. The death of.so many young.royals at once caused a succession crisis.
"One eyewitness estimated that 200 crusaders lost their lives each day from illness and starvation. Archbishop Baldwin of Canterbury, who had led an advanced Angevin contingent to Acre, passed away that December; so too did Count Theobald of Blois, one of William Marshal’s old friends from the tournament circuit."
45 "Acre became the graveyard of Europe’s aristocracy."
On the Battle of Lincoln one of the Great Knights last
70 "the heart of the Anglo-French army had been crushed. The English historian David Carpenter has rightly described Lincoln as ‘one of the most decisive [battles] in English history’, concluding that its outcome ‘meant that England would be ruled by the Angevin, not the Capetian dynasty’."
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