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Showing posts with label Raymond IV of Toulouse. Show all posts
17 June 2025

James the Pawn

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James I of Aragon  (2 February 1208 – 27 July 1276) was used by his father as a political tool. He was the only child of Peter II of Aragon ...
31 March 2024

Raymond of Aguilers

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One of our sources for the events of the First Crusade was the participant Raymond of Aguilers of Provence. Raymond was a lay canon (a lay p...
28 March 2024

The Holy Lance, Part One

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One of the "side-effects" of the Crusades was allowing Western Europeans to look for artifacts connected to the Bible and the life...
05 June 2023

The Siege of Nicaea

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When the First Crusade was on their way to free the Holy land from the "infidel," they passed through Constantinople and asked for...
22 May 2023

The Crusade of 1101

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Because the First Crusade was successful, in 1100-1101 several of those who had avoided going on the First (or started and turned back beca...
21 May 2023

The First Troubadour

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William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony (1071 - 1127), also Count of Poitiers, had a shaky start in life. He was the son of Duke William V...
20 June 2022

Deeds of the Franks

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Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum (Latin: "Deeds of the Franks and the other pilgrims to Jerusalem"), also known simp...
17 June 2022

Godfrey of Bouillon

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Godfrey (c.1060 - 18 July, 1100) was the second son of Eustace II, Count of Boulogne, and therefore was not in line for much inheritance. Hi...
15 March 2016

Catharism

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The Cathar symbol The Cathars were a heretical sect that first appeared in historical records of Europe about 1143. In truth, the term ...