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2 days ago · The seventh crusade. When, in 1248, Louis IX went to liberate the Holy Land, he embarked with his bride, Margaret of Provence, but he was taken prisoner. Once released and returned to his realm, he undertook great reforms, including in particular the interdict of the judicial duel (or trial by ordeal).
3 days ago · Reconfiguring the Fifteenth-Century Crusade. London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, ISBN: 9781137462800; 360pp.; Price: £80.00. For generations of historians, the fall of the Christian-held city of Acre to the Mamluk forces of al-Ashraf Khalil in 1291 brought about the end of the crusading era. The final destruction of the Latin States of the ...
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4 days ago · Raoul de Soissons (1210–1270) was a French trouvère who wrote seven chansons about his participation the Barons' Crusade, Seventh Crusade and Eighth Crusade, where is presumed to have died in 1270.
3 days ago · Three of these relics are located in Spain, where they have been studied by scientists and venerated by pilgrims for many years. Lignum Crucis: A Relic of the True Cross. For more than 1200 years, the Franciscan monastery of Santo Toribio de Liébana in Cantabria houses a relic believed to be a large part of the Cross of Christ.
1 day ago · Henry III of England. Mother. Eleanor of Provence. Edward I [a] (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England from 1272 to 1307. Concurrently, he was Lord of Ireland, and from 1254 to 1306 he ruled Gascony as Duke of Aquitaine in his capacity as a vassal of the French king.
- 20 November 1272 – 7 July 1307
- Eleanor of Provence
4 days ago · Grant acknowledges that Blanche was not the ideal mother-in-law and offers a sympathetic account of the fortunes of Margaret of Provence. Grant suggests Margaret’s much more limited role at court was not due to changes in attitudes towards queens, but rather due to specific circumstances, such as the potential threat that Margaret’s family ...
4 days ago · Survey of the City of London by John Ogilby and William Morgan, on a scale of 100 feet to the inch, completed in 1676. British History Online (no series). Originally published by [s.n.], [s.l.], 1676. This free content was digitised by scanning.
