Identifier: gri_33125008050011 (find matches)
Title: Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Civilization, Medieval Civilization, Renaissance Costume Military art and science Christian life
Publisher: London : Bickers & Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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of the Abbey of St. Denis, and now destroyed.—From the Monu-ments de la Monarchie Franeaise, by Montfaucon (Twelfth Century). stantinople, when the Emperor Alexis L, who had summoned the WesternChristians to his aid against the Turks, succoured them, and enabled themto await the arrival of the more regular expeditions, which had started threemonths later under Godefroy de Bouillon. It was then only that the real Crusade, that is to say, the actual waragainst the unbelievers, commenced. In March, 1097, the Christian armycrossed the Bosphorus from Thrace, seized Nicoea (Fig. 102), penetrated into THE CRUSADES. Syria, and laid siege to the important town of Antioch, which by an act oftreachery was forced to surrender in June, 1098. In the spring of the follow-ing year the soldiers of Christ entered Palestine, but.it was not till the 15thof July, 1099, that the holy city fell into their hands, and that Godefroy deBouillon (Figs. 103 and 104), elected king by the principal leaders of the
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Fig. 103—Godefroy de Bouillon, crowned with the Instruments of our Lords Passion.—From aWoodcut of the end of the Fifteenth Century, in the Burgundian Library, Brussels. victorious army, under the modest title of Baron of the Holy Sepulchre,founded the Christian kingdom of Jerusalem. Haifa century passed away, during which Christendom sent forth expedi-tion after expedition to defend the Holy Land and to consolidate its conquest;but with little success, for the Saracens never desisted from their attacks on 118 the Crusaders, and persistently disputed with them the possession of Palestine.Moreover, the ardour of the pilgrims gradually diminished, the zeal forthe Crusades commenced to slacken in Europe, and indifference and apathy

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