Following Orders

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

Lady C,
A few of us are still around. Just can't spend much time on the forums due to work and home time constraints.
Still take a few minutes most days to view what the venerable Brother Warrior posts on Crusading history. After all....he is our hero!!;)

Non nobis domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

This date in Medieval Crusading History:

18 June

1291 – Death of King Alfonso III of Aragon (b. 1265) (Also the same year Christians lost their last footing in the Holy Land at the fall of Acre)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_III_of_Aragon

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

This date in Medieval Crusading History:

19 June

1269 – King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver. (A quick way to make up lost expenses from Crusading?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_IX_of_France

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

This date in Medieval Crusading History:

20 June

1192-  Saladin's scouts reported that a large contingent of crusaders had moved off from Beit Nuba (The limit of King Richard's advance to Jerusalem roughly 12 miles from the Holy City). This raised Saladin's suspicions. He was at that very moment awaiting a massive supply caravan from Egypt.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Richard_I_(DNB00)

1212-  Crusaders left Toledo bound for Malagon and Calatrava during the Reconquista.

http://www.military-history.us/2011/01/the-spanish-reconquista-the-battle-of-las-navas-de-tolosa/

[Sir William Marcus]

[Lady Christina de Pond]

why is sir william marcus hiding behind the couch

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

It's a position of advantage. He's overwatching the area, as we've placed a Persian rug in the center and patiently await someone to come and reclaim it..............

[Lady Christina de Pond]

do the persians know you stole their rug?

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

This date in Medieval Crusading History:

21 June

1190 Survivors of the German crusade reach Antioch after the army fell apart upon Frederick Barbarossa's death. These Germans would soon form the foundation of the Teutonic Order in response to the treatment by the French and English crusaders. It would also spawn another lesser known Crusade seven years later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_I_Barbarossa#Third_Crusade_and_death
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusade_of_1197

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

do the persians know you stole their rug?

Through a fair trade agreement it was purchased, but "left/placed" as a forgotten valuble item......

[Lady Christina de Pond]

william may want to get comfortable they may be a while in coming for that rug

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

This date in Medieval Crusading History:

22 June

1212- Muslims under Caliph Muhammad Al-Nasir started out from Seville and marched north to meet the Crusader army departing Caltrava during the Reconquista.

http://www.military-history.us/2011/01/the-spanish-reconquista-the-battle-of-las-navas-de-tolosa/

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

william may want to get comfortable they may be a while in coming for that rug

They came for the rug.........

[Hospitaller]

<notices rug still in place and wonders at the fantastic job done to clean up the Persin guts left behind>

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

The answer: Biblical amounts of Scotch Guard.