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Post by SwordandCompass on Aug 27, 2004 13:58:20 GMT -5
I have this book on the Crusades details just about everything you can think of.Its main subject is about the Knights Templars and its part in the crusades.In the book (i read it about year ago) it does mention a little about the mixed raced Crusaders.Most of,if not all the Crusaders where of northern european descent.My question is, anyone have any good links or sources online about this?Im going to look through my book and try to post any good info.
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Post by Melnorme on Aug 27, 2004 14:06:28 GMT -5
I have this book on the Crusades details just about everything you can think of.Its main subject is about the Knights Templars and its part in the crusades.In the book (i read it about year ago) it does mention a little about the mixed raced Crusaders.Most of,if not all the Crusaders where of northern european descent.My question is, anyone have any good links or sources online about this?Im going to look through my book and try to post any good info. 'Mixed race'? lol, they could have meant half-Middle Eastern Christian. |
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Post by alex221166 on Aug 27, 2004 14:21:20 GMT -5
it does mention a little about the mixed raced Crusaders.Most of,if not all the Crusaders where of northern european descent. There... Now I KNOW for sure that the next movie about the crusades will have Afro-Americans in the lead roles.  |
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Post by SwordandCompass on Aug 27, 2004 14:28:31 GMT -5
'Mixed race'? lol, they could have meant half-Middle Eastern Christian. Yea thats what i meant.Im sorry rabbi Mel.Oh yea in the book he meant european/mid eastern mix.im going to look through the book.Shalom:P |
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Post by captainusa1 on Aug 28, 2004 2:45:08 GMT -5
There... Now I KNOW for sure that the next movie about the crusades will have Afro-Americans in the lead roles. It wouldn't surprise me if Denzel Washington played King Richard's trusted advisor. Remember Morgan Freeman in "Robin Hood"? |
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Post by Cerdic on Sept 2, 2004 2:51:17 GMT -5
The upper classes of the more northern Crusader states heavily intermarried with the local Armenian Christian aristocracy , the ruling families also intermarried with the Byzantine Imperial dynasty.
The lower classes also intermarried with Arab and Armenian Christians. The products of these unions formed a distinct warrior class, the Turcopoles (probably from the Greek "Turcopouloi"); these usually served as light cavalry armed with recurved bows in the "Turkish manner."
The Italian city states were heavily involved in the Crusades, the major players also included the Siculo-Normans of Southern Italy and the Southern French (the counts of Tripoli were from the Languedoc).
The best books on the subject are the three volumes by Steven Runciman.
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Post by Hilde on Sept 10, 2004 13:22:54 GMT -5
Hello, this links gives information about galicia and their crusaders and other sister nations( Ireland, Galia...): www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/ekkehard-aur1.htmlgofree.indigo.ie/~warrenl/History/Crusade.htmlGalician crusaders: www.deremilitari.org/RESOURCES/ARTICLES/barton1.htm"In the west of the kingdom, in Galicia, by 1120 large numbers of knights are reported to have taken the cross in order to campaign overseas, and charter references to a number of possible Galician crusaders crop up in the succeeding years: men like Fernando Núñez, who endowed the church of Ourense on 27 December 1127 shortly before he set off to Jerusalem; the nobleman Pedro who gave his share of the church of Trasmonte to the see of Compostela on 24 November 1134 when he was about to journey to the East; and Melendo Rodríguez, who made a donation to the Cluniac abbey of Jubia in 1137, declaring that it was his intention to travel to Jerusalem in order to purge himself of the sins that he had committed in his youth.[31] For his part, Count Fernando Péres de Traba made two journeys to Jerusalem, the second of them in 1153" Book about the templars in Galicia: www.toxosoutos.com/DETcolTRIVIUM1024.asp?ISBN=84-89129-29-0From the cold Atlantic towards the sunrise!!! |
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Post by SwordandCompass on Sept 10, 2004 13:37:04 GMT -5
Hello, Hilde
The book i have is called Dungeon,Fire and Sword by John J.Robinson.I read it sometime ago and it did mention to the fact that some Knights where indeed half mid and half French(this book is about the Knights Templars and the order of the French preceptories).Anyway,i havent looked through the book to find where and what he exactly said(slackin off ;D.Thanks for the links though.
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Post by Vitor on Sept 10, 2004 14:27:21 GMT -5
Sister nations? If there are sister nations of galicia, then only portugal or castilia could have that status...  they fought against he moors in Iberia, only an small fraction did went into middle east. |
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