Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 87
ation of the armies of Christ. While Philippe le Bel was destroying the Knights Templars, whom he held H WAR AND ARMIES. to be obstacles to bis political plans, he was at the same time seeking in everyway the means of restraining a haughty aristocracy, always under arms, whosesystematic want of… … Fig. 43.—Richard Coeur-de-Lion, King of England and Duke of Normandy, mortally wounded byan arrow shot by Bertrand de Gourdon, at the Siege of the Castle of Chalus, in Limousin(1199).—Chroniqucs do Normandie, Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century (Library ofM. Ambroise Firmin-Didot). the requirements…
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