Following Orders

[Lady Christina de Pond]

and a shop vac

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

Remember "Cleanliness is next to Godliness" and every Warrior Monk seeks that.

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

This date in Medieval Crusading History:

23 June

1306- Hospitallers begin invasion of Rhodes (A year before the Templars are rounded up in France and charged with heresy). It would take them two years to complete this operation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Hospitaller#Knights_of_Cyprus_and_Rhodes

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

This date in Medieval Crusading History:

24 June

1148 The Council of Acre met at Palmarea, near Acre, a major city of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem (as can be seen from the posts in the Finding of a Crusader City thread).

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

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

With the rediscovery of the Crusader city of Acre beneath the current sprawl, it's interesting to note some of the key events that took place during the fall of the city in 1291.

The Teutonic Grand Master Burchard von Schwanden suddenly resigns and names Konrad von Feuchtwangen as his successor, who suddenly left Acre for Europe. Burchard von Schwanden goes back to his home in Switzerland and finally joins the Order of the Hospitallers. Feuchtwangen moves the Order's headquarters to Venice.

The Hospitaller Grand Master John de Villiers particpated in the fighting but managed to make it to Cyprus where he wrote about the seige on his sick bed. The Hospitallers lost Brother Matthew de Clermont within the confines of the city, who had served as the Marshal for their Order.

The Templar Grand Master, William of Beaujeu , during the siege, dropped his sword and walked away from the walls. His knights remonstrated. Beaujeu replied: "Je ne m'enfuis pas; je suis mort. Voici le coup." ("I'm not running away; I am dead. Here is the blow.") He raised his arm to show the mortal wound he had received. The fallen Master was replaced by Thibaud Gaudin. In 1291, he had ridden at the side of Guillaume de Beaujeu to defend the town of Acre, besieged by the formidable army of Mamluk Sultan Al-Ashraf Khalil. On 18 May, upon the death of Guillaume de Beaujeu, Gaudin remained in the city of Acre. The remaining knights of the order, men, women and children found shelter in the Temple, the great fort of the Templars. Pierre de Sevry, Marshal of the Order, Thibaud Gaudin, treasurer of the order, and their knights were the last to defend Acre. After trying to break in for a whole week without success, Al-Ashraf Khalil offered the marshal of the order to embark for Cyprus with all their possessions. Pierre de Sevry agreed. An Emir and 100 mameluks were permitted to enter the fort, but they began to molest some women and boys. Furious at this act, the knights slaughtered the mameluks and barricaded themselves again.

In the morning, Peter de Severy went to the Sultan to settle a new negotiation but he was arrested with his followers and they were executed in retaliation for the Sultan's men who were massacred earlier by the Templars inside the fortress. When the besieged Templars in the fortress saw what happened to Peter de Severy, they continued the fight. On May 28, after a wide breach was made under the fortress, the Sultan sent about 200 men to take it. The Frankish fortress collapsed killing nearly everyone inside. All the Templars were killed, and about half of the Sultan's men were killed.

In October 1291, a general chapter of the order met in Cyprus. This meeting confirmed the election of Thibaud Gaudin as Grand Master and named new dignitaries in the important positions within the hierarchy of the order. On that occasion, Jacques de Molay was named Marshal, to succeed Pierre de Sevry, who died at Acre. Thibaud Gaudin tried to reorganize all the Templars after the devastation of the recent battles. Moreover, it was necessary for him to defend the Kingdom of Armenia from the encircled Turkish Seldjoukides and the island of Cyprus, occupied by a multitude of refugees.

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

This date in Medieval Crusading History:

25 June

1218 – Death of Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, French crusader (b. 1160)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_de_Montfort,_5th_Earl_of_Leicester

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

This date in Medieval Crusading History:

26 June

1097- Crusaders leave Nicaea in two contingents: Bohemond, Tancred, Robert of Flanders, and Taticius in the vanguard, and Godfrey, Baldwin of Boulogne, Stephen, and Hugh of Vermandois in the rear. Their spirits were high, and Stephen wrote to his wife Adela that they expected to be in Jerusalem in five weeks; they would not reach Jerusalem until two years after leaving Nicaea.

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

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

This date in Medieval Crusading History:

27 June

1119 Crusader and Saracen forces make contact in what would be known as the Battle of the Field of Blood.

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

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

This date in Medieval Crusading History:

28 June

1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Crusade
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerbogha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosul

1389 – The Ottomans defeat the Serbian army in the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe.

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

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

This date in Medieval Crusading History:

29 June

1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_of_Poitiers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Inab
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nur_ad-Din_Zangi

1097- First Crusaders learnt that the Turks were planning an ambush near Dorylaeum (Bohemund noticed his army being shadowed by Turkish scouts). (this event will take place over the next three days)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dorylaeum_(1097)

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

This date in Medieval Crusading History:
30 June

1270- King Louis IX of France (Saint Louis) leads the Eighth Crusade (his second Crusade) as an attack against Tunisia, but dies en route and is reluctantly replaced by his brother Charles of Anjou, King of Sicily. His son, Philip III of France is crowned.

http://www.st-louis.org/louis.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Crusade
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_of_Anjou#Eighth_Crusade
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_III_of_France

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

This date in Medieval Crusading History:

1 July

1097- The Battle of Dorylaeum took place during the First Crusade, between the crusaders and the
Seljuk Turks, near Dorylaeum in Anatolia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dorylaeum_(1097)

2011- The Warrior Monk finishes his postings of This date in Medieval Crusading History. For those that are interested in other dates, they may be found throughout the Following Orders thread.

http://www.renaissancefestival.com/forums/index.php?topic=72.0

I'm thinking now on covering special personalities of the Crusades (folks you never knew that went). Maybe.

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

Calling out to see how many Brothers and Sisters we have that still follow this thread.......

[Lady Christina de Pond]

I'm still here

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   That's One.....