Outremer
In The Balance
(Click on the above link to find a thingy wot Jelly writ).
Meanwhile, for those whose who have had a hard day ...
| A Brief
Pictorial History Of The First Crusade |
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| "It will never
work." - Stephen of Blois |
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| Somewhere in the middle of the Middle Ages, at
the Council of Clermont, the final eliminators for leadership of the First
Crusade had reached a tense climax. |
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| Raymond, Count of Toulouse, gets the gig but
was the match rigged? Why was Pope Urban II so sure of Adhemar's claim
that Raymond would win? |
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| All across Europe there were heart-rending
scenes as the crusaders set off ..... |
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| "Oh what grief there was! What sighs, what
weeping, what lamentation among friends when husband left his wife so dear
to him, his children, his possessions however great, his father and
mother, brothers and other relatives! ..... Then husband told wife the
time he expected to return, assuring her that if by God's grace he
survived he would come back home to her. He commended her to the Lord,
kissed her lingeringly, and promised her as she wept that he would return.
She, though, fearing that she would never see him again, could not stand
but swooned to the ground, mourning her loved one whom she was losing in
this life as if her were already dead." - Fulcher of Chartres. |
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| Meanwhile, back in downtown Byzantium, the Emperor, Alexiad
The First, and his daughter, Anna Karenina, joyously prepared to welcome
the crusaders. |
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However, the medieval public transport system being what it
was, the great European nobles had found that they were running into
mounting difficulties. |
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