KINGSHIP—UNITY OF EUROPE—THE PAPACY—LIBERAL THOUGHT—INCREASED
KNOWLEDGE—ARTS—LITERATURE—COMMERCE—THE TURKISH POWER.
The picture of Europe at the inauguration of the crusades in the
eleventh century, with which our volume opened, is very different from
that in which we would portray the thirteenth century, when the militant
faith had practically ceased its conflict for the possession of the Holy
Land. In government, in popular morals, in education, in industrial
methods, and in reasonable piety the world had greatly advanced; but as
it was difficult to definitely trace the causes of the crusades in the
earlier era, so it would be unwise to attribute to their influence all
the changes that had taken place during their continuance. When a broad
river debouches into a fertile valley it is natural to point to that
irrigating current as the cause of the abundant vegetation; yet much of
the new life and beauty may be due to other springs on the hillsides and
to better conditions of soil and climate. There were certainly at work
in society other forces than those which either illustrated or resulted
from the military movements. The great law of social evolution wrought
steadily, sometimes using, and often in ways aside from, the crusading
projects. The spirit of humanity—or, we may more wisely say, the Spirit
of God in humanity—is a self-developing power, which must not be
overlooked by the student of history.
We have already observed the influence of the crusades upon the growth
of kingship, especially in France. The French people supplied the
majority of the warriors, and their sovereigns were the foremost in
leading and supporting the great endeavor. Quite naturally leadership in
the field compacted the power of the French throne. The lords who
followed the king abroad were less disposed to dispute his authority at
home. When the crusades began, as we have seen, the sway of the king was
limited to the neighborhood of Paris. During the reign of Louis IX.,
which witnessed their close, there were ceded to the crown by their
feudal lords the section of Toulouse between the Rhone, the sea, and the
Pyrenees, Chartres, Blois, Sancerre, Mâcon, Perche, Arles, Forcalquier,
Foix, and Cahors, while at the same time England relinquished its claim
to Normandy, Anjou, Maine, Touraine, Poitou, and northern Saintonge,
thus presenting to the eye almost the present map of France. The various
feudal courts, where they still held separate jurisdiction, yielded the
right of final appeal to the king before the enforcement of their
decisions. Anciently the barons and clergy of France had been accustomed
to meet in general assembly for the support of the monarchy. For over a
century preceding the first crusade such assemblies had not been held,
but when Louis VII. embarked upon the second crusade the great men of
all sections resumed these loyal conventions. It may therefore be said
that modern France was born amid the throes of the mediæval holy wars.
In Germany the case was different. The incessant quarrel of Pope and
emperor, to which the various crusading projects gave fuel, weakened
imperialism in central and southern Europe. The English throne doubtless
profited by the part taken by the people in the foreign adventures,
which diverted the ambition of the most restless, who would otherwise
have more seriously assailed the sovereign authority. Spain was still
occupied largely by the Moors, and was thus prevented from sharing to
any great extent in the Eastern wars upon the Infidels; but the
engagement of so much of the Moslem energy in defending its distant
lands allowed the Spaniards to slowly accrete their strength for the
final expulsion of the Moors and the establishment of an undivided
Spanish government, two centuries later, under Ferdinand and Isabella.
Another effect of the crusades was the birth of a distinctly European
sentiment. Men, however diverse in blood and country, could not live for
a generation among common dangers, and be daily actuated by common
purposes, without realizing brotherhood. The Celt, the Frank, the
Italian, and the Teuton saw that they were more alike than diverse when
facing the Asiatic. The followers of barons from either side the Rhine
or the opposite slopes of the Apennines dropped their peculiar war-cries
and adopted the universal “Deus vult!” In time the Frankish language,
the speech of the greater number of the crusaders, came to be the
universal medium of commercial, military, and diplomatic intercourse. It
no longer belonged exclusively to the subjects of a French king, but was
in a measure continental. The title “Frank” meant anybody from the lands
north of the Mediterranean and west of the Greek provinces. The various
nations of Europe came to feel less jealousy of the dominant race than
fear of the hostile civilization whose armies were massed along the
eastern boundaries of the Continent. Thus the project of Hildebrand to
unite Christendom by means of a crusade was successful in a way he did
not contemplate—the gathering of European peoples into a secular as well
as an ecclesiastical unity.
The papal power, however, was that chiefly affected by the crusades,
both to its advantage and its disadvantage.
Great wealth came to the Papacy from the many estates which departing
crusaders left in either its possession or trusteeship. Thus Godfrey of
Bouillon alienated large parts of his ancestral holdings by direct gift
to the ecclesiastics. Many returning home from Palestine, broken in
health and spirit by their trials, insanely depressed with the “vanity
of life,” ended their days in monasteries, which they endowed with the
remnant of their estates. The Pope, having acquired charge of and
responsibility for the crusading venture, affixed a tax upon the secular
clergy and religious houses. This was at first spent legitimately in
maintaining the enterprises afield, but the immense revenues were
gradually diverted to the general uses of the church. In the year 1115
the great Countess Matilda deeded all her domain to the Pope. This
addition to the landed wealth of the Papacy amounted to perhaps one
quarter of Italy, and constituted the bulk of the modern temporal
possessions of the holy see. To its own local property the Papacy had
also added acquisitions in all countries, until it held throughout
Europe a large part, if not the greater proportion, of the land.
The political influence of the Pope was at the same time greatly
extended by the appointment of papal legates. Heretofore the Holy Father
had on occasion delegated representatives, who in his name should
investigate causes and settle disputes at a distance from Rome. During
the crusades this legatine authority was systematized by the
organization of a definite body of men. The Pope was thus impersonated
at every court and in every emergency. A controversy in London or
Jerusalem was settled by one who on the spot spoke as the Vicegerent of
God. If at times the mistakes of legates imperilled faith in the papal
infallibility, as a rule they kept the world in awe by the terror of the
imagined ubiquity of the divine presence.
Another great advantage accruing to Rome from the crusades was in the
establishment of a closer bond between the church and the individual.
Urban II. had absolved all crusaders from accountability to their
secular lords during their absence at the seat of war. In the enthusiasm
of the moment the lords had acquiesced in this as a temporary
arrangement; but they soon lamented their unwisdom in this concession.
The spirit of ecclesiastical obedience was sedulously cultivated by
priest and legate, who pledged temporal and eternal blessings to those
who, whatever their attitude to their former masters, were now faithful
to the Pope. Loyalty to the secular lord was never restored as of old.
In the common thought the pontiff was the great king and the real
commandant of armies. Providence was not more omnipresent than the care
of the Holy Father, and the judgment-seat of heaven was seemingly
transferred to every camp and every home that was accessible to a Roman
agent.
The crusades against the Eastern Infidels inspired audacity and
presumption in the church, which suggested crusades elsewhere. Whoever
was not Catholic was regarded as the Christians’ prey. Preachers
authorized by Rome stirred up the faithful in Saxony and Denmark to
convert by the sword the pagans living along the shores of the Baltic.
An army of one hundred and fifty thousand, wearing upon their breasts a
red cross on the background of a circle, symbolizing the universality of
Christ’s kingdom, devastated pagan cities and burned idolatrous temples,
and after three years secured from the leaders a promise to make their
people Christian—a task more difficult than it had been before, since
the half-savage people had now learned that Christianity could be as
cruel as their own paganism. Indeed, everything that was not consecrated
to Roman Christianity became the lawful spoil of whoever, wearing the
cross upon his breast, dared to take it. The crusading zeal became thus
a habit of the Christian mind, and led to the horrors of the Inquisition
in later days.
While Rome thus profited in many ways by the crusades, it must also be
noted that the Papacy failed to maintain to the end the prestige it had
acquired in the earlier period of the movement. Pope Innocent III.
(1198-1216) carried the Hildebrandian policy to its highest realization.
The emperor was forced to accept his crown from the hands of the Holy
Father, and also to demit the right he had long contended for of
electing the papal incumbent. The entire episcopacy in Europe was in the
Pope’s control and wrought his will, even in England. But with Gregory
IX. (1227-41) the pile of papal autocracy began to totter. This Pope,
notwithstanding he had twice excommunicated the emperor, was ultimately
obliged to yield to the secular will. His unchristian hauteur, and the
rancor with which his successor, Innocent IV., pursued the emperor, lost
the papal chair much of the respect of the Catholic world. Soon the
various governments came to resent the absolutism of the throne on the
Tiber. In 1253 Robert Grosseteste protested against the papal exactions
in England, notwithstanding the king was utterly subservient to Rome,
and thus he merited the title, which history has given him, of one of
the great fathers of English liberty. Twenty-six years later (1279)
England enacted the Statute of Mortmain, which forbade the alienation of
property to religious bodies without the consent of the secular
authority.
A similar sentiment was working in France. Probably what is known as the
Pragmatic Sanction of Louis IX. (1268) is not genuine, but the revolt of
that royal saint against the assessments of Rome without consent of the
throne is undoubted, and Louis may be said to have revived the ancient
Gallican liberties, which for a century and a half had apparently been
dead. A bull of Boniface VIII. in 1298 caused open rupture between
France and Rome.
With Boniface the Papacy was utterly humiliated. In 1309, within
eighteen years of the fall of Acre into the hands of the Moslems, the
popes were in exile at Avignon, and the government of the church became
the foot-ball of secular ambition. Clement V. (1305-12) ascended the
papal throne as the creature of Philip the Fair of France, and was
forced to lend himself to that monarch’s cruel and unjust persecution of
the Templars, which order was abolished and its Grand Master burned at
the stake in 1312.
With the diminished prestige of the Papacy came the renaissance of freer
thought throughout the world. The failure of the crusades to conquer the
Moslem, and the futile experiments of war upon heretical sects like the
Waldenses and Albigenses, led to a partial suppression of the epidemic
for forceful conversions, and to a healthful recollection of our
Saviour’s command to Peter, “Put up thy sword.” In this better condition
of the human mind germinated the modern evangelical methods, the
first-fruit of which was to appear in the Protestant Reformation.
There was something in the life of the crusaders that was favorable to
the growth of a new political sentiment, a popular, not to say a
democratic, impulse, which directly conduced to our modern civil
liberties. In their long and adventurous marches, in the common camp and
fighting together within or beneath the same fortresses, the lord and
his retainers came close to one another. The common man saw that his
muscles were as strong, his mind as astute, his character as good, as
that of his crested superior. Manhood rediscovered itself on those
Eastern plains. The returned knight could no longer disdain intercourse
with the brave men whose hamlet nestled beneath his castle walls. Their
common courage, the many scenes with which both classes were familiar,
the dangers they had shared, were repeated in story and song about the
castle gate. Aristocratic presumption more than once evoked insurrection
among the brawny fellows, who sang:
“We, too, are men;
As great hearts have we,
And our strength as theirs.”
In their home forays there were to be seen, together with the ensigns of
the feudal lords, the popular banners of the parishes. Indeed, the new
power of the people came to be the reliance of the king in his contest
with rebel lords. Thus everywhere were silently germinated the forces of
the commune and of the Third Estate in France, whose first assembly was
held in 1302. In 1215 England secured for itself Magna Charta, the
central regulation of which was that no freeman should “be taken,
imprisoned, or damaged in person or estate but by the judgment of his
peers” and “by laws of the land,” a grant to liberty which stood in
spite of the fact that the Pope declared it to be null and void. In 1265
there came together the first regular Parliament of England with the
House of Commons a constituent branch.
To the crusades we must attribute much of the increased knowledge of men
and the quickening of inquiry into every department of human welfare.
The crusaders mingled with their enemies in the lull of active warfare,
and especially became familiar with the arts and customs of the Greeks,
their pseudo-allies. The immense treasures of art secured by the capture
of Constantinople, and displayed in every centre of Western population,
inspired æsthetic taste. Such buildings appeared as the Palazzo Vecchio,
Santa Croce, and the Duomo at Florence (about 1290), Westminster Abbey
and Salisbury Cathedral (1220) and Cologne Cathedral (1248). Pisano
(died 1270) revived sculpture; Cimabue (1240-1300) was the first of
modern painters; the new impulse to scientific study produced Roger
Bacon (1214-92). The Troubadours enlarged the romance of the lady’s
chamber to that of the field of exploit, where Europe strove with Asia,
and were followed by the great poets Dante (1265-1321) and Petrarch
(1304-74). Splendid seats of learning sprang up, like the universities
of Oxford (revived in 1200), Paris (1206), Padua (1222), and Cambridge
(1229). The march of the soldier prompted the voyage of the peaceful
traveller, like Marco Polo, who in 1272 explored the world as far as
eastern China. The crusader learned something of the science of
government from the Moslem, especially in matters relating to
municipalities, for he was compelled to note that Cairo and Damascus
were better governed than Paris and London. The wars suggested
improvements in military equipment and manœuvre; indeed, the art of
handling immense multitudes of men as a single body was learned by the
knights, who, fighting in independent groups, were often overwhelmed by
the massed forces of their enemies.
Commerce during this time began to spread its white wings upon all seas.
For two hundred years an almost incessant line of vessels passed to and
fro between the ports of the eastern and western Mediterranean,
conveying supplies to the soldiers. As we have seen, an English fleet
transported the army of Richard I. along the Atlantic coast. Men learned
how to lade ships with utmost economy of space and to take advantage of
all winds in sailing them. Roads were opened which converged to the
point of departure from the surrounding country, where the produce was
gathered for shipment. Agents were scattered throughout Europe to
purchase the needed articles in small quantities, and prepare them in
bulk for the voyage. War thus fostered the commercial habit and skill
which were utilized in times of peace.
Between 1255 and 1262 the Hanseatic League or Trade Guild of the Baltic
maritime cities was formed, and within a century it numbered in its
membership a hundred ports and inland towns. The league organized
merchants for common defence against pirates, the settlement of disputes
by arbitration, and the acquisition of commercial favors in distant
parts of the world. Maritime laws were codified during the thirteenth
century, under the title of “Il Consolato del Mare,” and were generally
enforced along the Mediterranean. According to a tradition, the code
called “The Laws of Oleron” was compiled by Richard I. during his
expedition to Palestine, but with more probability it may be ascribed to
the reign of Louis IX. of France. Bills of exchange were in vogue as
early as 1255.
Commerce brought wealth in place of the sordid poverty which had marked
castle and cottage in the eleventh century. Trade introduced new
articles of food and adornment, at first to gratify the palate and eye
of the rich, but soon to elevate the scale of living everywhere. Such is
the power of habit that luxuries easily acquired quickly become
necessities. People learned no longer to look upon “man’s life as cheap
as beast’s.” Industries sprang up for the home manufacture of what had
originally been brought from abroad. Invention was stimulated, and the
domestic arts took their place in the foremost line of the new
civilization. The Dark Ages had given way, and at least the gray light
of the dawn of a better era illumined the horizon.
We may note in conclusion the influence of the crusades in staying the
progress of that gigantic power which for two centuries had contested
with Christendom the possession of western Asia. So rapid had been the
rise and spread of the new Mohammedan tide of Turkish invasion that, but
for the barrier presented by the crusaders, it would have quickly
submerged the Balkan peninsula, as it had already done the plains of
Asia Minor; and possibly it would have poured its desolation into
central Europe at a time when Europe was not prepared to resist, as it
did four hundred years later when the Turks besieged Vienna. The appeal
of the Greek emperors for the help of their Western Christian brethren
in the eleventh century was warranted by the seriousness of the menace.
The empire was then too demoralized to withstand alone the onset of
these daring hordes, who possessed superior powers of physical
endurance, great mental activity quickened by the enterprises they
planned for their swords, and courage as yet undaunted by defeat. What
they might have speedily accomplished but for their enforced halt of two
hundred years on the eastern shores of the Marmora is suggested by what
they did almost immediately after the crusaders withdrew their wall of
swords. The same decade that witnessed the fall of Acre saw the founding
of the present dynasty of Ottoman Turks in Nicomedia (1299). In 1355
they crossed the sea and planted their first European stronghold at
Gallipoli. In the next century (1452) Mohammed II. was enthroned as
sultan in Constantinople, where his successors have for four hundred
years repelled the arms, and still baffle the diplomacy, of Europe.
INDEX.
Abélard, 8, 162, 163.
Accian, 103, 106, 109; death, 111.
Acre, 123;
capture, 148;
by Saladin, 190;
siege of, 215 sq.;
fall, 297;
divisions in, 366;
final fall, 367.
Adela, 148.
Adhemar of Puy, 83, 105, 113;
death, 120.
Afdhal, 135, 137.
Afdhal, son of Saladin, 236.
Aibek, 356, 361.
Albigenses, 298, 322, 375.
Aleppo, 154.
Aletta, 8.
Alexander II., 49.
Alexander III., 15.
Alexander IV., 363.
Alexandria, captured, 180.
Alexius I., 74, 79, 81;
treachery, 85;
vengeance of Godfrey, 86;
character and policy, 88 sq., 244;
at Nicæa, 95;
refuses help, 113, 139;
jealousy, 147.
Alexius III., reply to Innocent III., 254;
protests against Venetian invasion, 271;
cowardice, 276, 277.
Alexius IV., son of Isaac Angelus, 258, 263;
plea, 266;
joins Dandolo, 268;
at Constantinople, 271, 279;
breach with crusaders, 281;
imprisonment and death, 283.
Alexius Ducas, 282.
Alfonso VI., 83.
Algazzali, 60.
Alhazan, 60.
Alice, French princess, 222.
Almoadam Turan Shan, 343, 353-355, 361, 362.
Alp-Arslan, 62.
Amalric, 152, 179, 180;
death, 182.
Amaury I. See Amalric.
Amaury II., 297.
Amaury de Montfort, 333.
Andrew II., Hungary, 303, 305.
Andronicus, 244, 247.
Angelus, Isaac. See Isaac Angelus.
Anjou, Duke of, 355.
Anna Comnena, quoted, 3, 72, 84;
picture of Alexius, 88;
opinion of crossbow, 92.
Anselm, 7.
Anselm, Archbishop of Milan, 139.
Anselme of Ribemont, 94.
Antioch, siege of, 102 sq.;
fall, 108 sq.;
conquered by Bibars, 363.
Aragon, King of, 363.
Archambaud, 172.
Arculf, Bishop, 67.
Arkas, 122.
Arnold de Brescia, 163, 198.
Arnold de Rohes, 128, 135.
Arsuf, 138, 141, 145;
destroyed by Bibars, 363.
Ascalon, 136;
capture, 179, 190.
Assassins, 228, 229.
Assizes of Jerusalem, 142.
Asur, 138, 141, 145.
Athareb, 154.
Atheling, Edgar, 122.
Aude, 20.
Augustine, 66.
Avicenna, 60.
Avignon, 375.
Ayoub, 176, 181.
Aziz, son of Saladin, 236.
Bacon, Francis, 11.
Bacon, Roger, 11, 377.
Baldwin I., 83;
at Tarsus, 99;
quarrel with Tancred, 99;
defection, 100;
submission to Pope, 142;
character, 144;
King of Jerusalem, 144 sq.;
exploits, 144 sq.;
marriage, 148;
death, 149.
Baldwin II., 145, 147;
succeeds to throne of Jerusalem, 150;
character, 150;
captured, 150;
liberated, 152;
died, 152;
helps Moslems, 154;
Templars, 158.
Baldwin III., 152, 153, 173;
against Nourredin, 178, 179;
death, 179.
Baldwin IV., 182 sq.
Baldwin V., 184.
Baldwin I., Constantinople, 21;
assaults Constantinople, 275;
elected Emperor of Constantinople, 292, 293;
strife with Boniface, 293;
death, 294.
Baldwin II., Constantinople, 322, 332.
Baldwin du Bourg. See Baldwin II.
Balian d’Iselin, 191.
Baliol, John, 363.
Baneas, 358.
Barbarossa, 34, 198;
character, 209;
third crusade, 209 sq., 212;
treatment of Greeks, 212;
death, 213.
Baronius, “Dark Ages,” 6.
Barthelemi, Peter, 114, 118;
Ordeal, 119.
Bavaria, Duke of, 140.
Beauvais, Bishop of, 24.
Becket, Thomas à, 200.
Beirut, fall of, 148.
Benedict III., 69.
Benedict VIII., 57.
Benedict IX., 45.
Ben-Musa, 60.
Berengaria, 222.
Bérenger, 7.
Bernard of Brittany, 67.
Bernard of Clairvaux, 8, 23;
against Abélard, 162;
second crusade, 164, 166 sq.;
failure and death, 177;
opinion of Henry II., 201.
Bernard of Clugny, hymn, 1.
Berthier of Orleans, hymn, 1.
Bertrade, 152.
Bertrand, 148.
Bethlehem, 124.
Bibars Bendoctar, 345-347, 353, 362, 363, 365.
Bibliography, v.-ix.
Biblus, fall of, 148.
Blachern, palace of, 250.
Blanche of Castile, 330, 336, 357, 358.
Blondel, 234.
Bohemond of Taranto, 83 sq.;
relations to Alexius, 87, 89, 90;
at Antioch, 105, 106;
treats for sovereignty of Antioch, 108;
enters Antioch, 110;
quarrel with Raymond, 120, 121;
attacks Maarah, 121;
submission to Pope, 142, 144, 145;
exploits, 147 sq.;
death, 148;
invades Greek dominions, 247.
Boniface VIII., humiliation of Papacy, 375.
Boniface of Montferrat, 258, 259, 261, 268, 271;
assaults Constantinople, 275;
plots, 282;
emperorship, 292;
disloyalty, 293;
death, 294.
Bouvines, battle of, 302.
Bozrah, 153.
Brabant, Duke of, 237, 240.
Brunhilde, 24.
Bruno, 60.
Bucolion, palace of, 250.
Byron, quoted, 294.
Cæsarea, captured by Baldwin, 145;
destroyed by Bibars, 363.
Cæsarea on the Orontes, 179.
Cæsarea Philippi, 358.
Cairo, 343.
Calixtus II., 162.
Cambray, Bishop of, 68.
Cambridge, University of, 378.
Capitularies of Charlemagne, 35, 48.
Capuano, Peter, 262.
Carac, fall of, 214.
Carismians, 324 sq.
Castile, King of, 363.
Celibacy, 48.
Cencius, 70.
Charlemagne, 17, 19, 48, 55, 67, 242;
capitularies of, 35, 48.
Charles Martel, 56.
Charles the Bold, 56.
Chegger-Eddour, 343, 353-355, 361, 362.
Chivalry, rules, etc., 26 sq.
Chosroes, 66, 133.
Cid, the, 58, 83.
Cimabue, 377.
Civitat, massacre, 81.
Clarendon, Assizes of, 200.
Clement II., 46.
Clement V., 375.
Clermont, Council of, 74.
Cologne Cathedral, 377.
Coloman, King of Hungary, 79, 80.
Commune, 377.
Comnena, Anna. See Anna Comnena.
Comnenus, Isaac, 244.
Comnenus, John, 152.
Conrad, brother of Boniface, 258.
Conrad, marshal of German empire, 139.
Conrad III., 167, 170;
at Jerusalem, 173;
Damascus, 145;
return, 176.
Conrad IV., 334, 357.
Conrad of Montferrat, 214;
at Acre, 216;
claims to Jerusalem, 218;
supported by Philip Augustus, 223;
plots, 227;
assassinated, 228.
Constance, daughter of Philip I., 148.
Constantine, 65.
Constantine, minister of finance, 277.
Constantinople, history of, 242 sq.;
great fire, 281;
fall, 284 sq.;
Latin kingdom, 291 sq.;
weakness, 322, 328.
Constantinople, Patriarch of, 287.
Corfu, 268 sq.
Councils, Lateran, 49, 198.
Courçon, Cardinal, 302.
Cross, True, 133.
Crusade, first, 78 sq., 82 sq., 91 sq., 96 sq., 101 sq., 108 sq., 112
sq., 120 sq., 134 sq.;
influence, 156 sq., 160 sq.
Crusade, second, cause, 155, 165, 166 sq.
Crusade, third, 206 sq., 215 sq., 219 sq.
Crusade, fourth, 242 sq., 252, 253 sq., 260 sq., 268 sq., 274 sq., 284
sq., 291 sq.
Crusade, fourth, pseudo, 241.
Crusade, fifth, 301 sq.
Crusade, sixth, 313 sq.
Crusade, seventh, 328 sq.
Crusade, eighth, 361 sq.
Crusade, Children’s, 298 sq.
Crusades, fascination of subject, 1;
causes, 3 sq.;
state of society, 6 sq., 40 sq.;
papal policy, 43 sq.;
results, 368 sq.
See Crusade, First, Second, etc., Chivalry, Feudalism, Mohammedanism,
Peter the Hermit, Pilgrimages, Urban II.
Cyprus, 222, 228.
Dagobert, 142, 144.
Dahir, son of Saladin, 236.
Damascus, Prince of, 152, 153.
Damascus, siege of, 174 sq.;
fall, 296.
Damascus, Sultan of, relations to Louis IX., 356, 358.
Damasus II., 46.
Damietta, siege of, 305, 306, 309;
victory of Louis IX., 338 sq.;
surrender, 353 sq.
Dandolo, Henry, 248, 251, 252, 256, 257;
perfidy, 260 sq.;
attacks Zara, 264;
joined by Alexius, 268;
diplomacy, 268 sq.;
captures Golden Horn, 272;
attack on Constantinople, 275;
further plots, 280, 282;
second attack, 284 sq.;
refuses to contest election to kingdom of Constantinople, 291, 292;
his choice, 292;
death, 294.
“Dark Ages,” according to Baronius, 6.
Dârôm, 229.
Domenicho, Michaeli, 151.
Dominic, 19.
Dorylæum, battle of, 96 sq.
Ducas, Alexius, 282.
Du Guesclin, 10.
Duomo, 377.
Edessa, fall of, 154, 155.
Edgar Atheling, 122.
Edmund, prince of England, 363.
Edward, prince of England, 363, 366.
Egypt, caliph of, 105, 122.
Eleanor, Queen, 167, 171;
rupture with Louis, 173;
divorce, 198;
character, 201;
released by Richard, 202;
appeals to Pope, 233;
ransom of Richard, 234.
Eleemon, John, 157.
Elizabeth of Hungary, 316.
Elvira, daughter of Alfonso VI., 83.
Emico, 80.
England, during crusades, 370;
Magna Charta, 377;
Parliament, 377.
Eremi, 7.
Estate, Third, 377.
Eustace, son of Godfrey, 83.
Eustace Grenier, 151.
Evrard des Barras, 172.
Exerogorgo, siege of, 81.
Fakr Eddin, 340, 345.
Fatimites, 181.
Feudalism, 32 sq.
Finlay, quoted, 62.
Florine, 104.
Foulcher of Chartres, 110;
desertion, 113;
scepticism, 115.
Foulque of Anjou, 152, 158.
Foulques the Black, 20, 69.
France, effect of crusades on, 161;
at close of crusades, 369.
Francis of Assisi, 19, 308, 309.
“Frank,” meaning, 371.
Frankfort, Synod of, 49.
Frederick I. See Barbarossa.
Frederick II., fifth crusade, 302;
sixth crusade, 313 sq.;
life and character, 313 sq.;
acquires Jerusalem, 319;
returns, 321, 323;
relations to Innocent IV., 329, 334;
generosity, 337;
death, 357.
Frederick of Swabia, 209, 213, 218.
Frotmonde, 69.
Fulque, priest, 254.
Gaita, 24.
Galata, 273.
Galileo, 60.
Garnier, 144.
Gautier of Brienne, 327.
Gaza, 326.
Genghis Khan, 324.
Geoffrey, son of Henry II., 201.
Geoffrey de Sargines, 349.
Gerard, Master of Hospitallers, 157.
Gerard of Avernes, 141.
“German tax,” 246.
Germany, during crusades, 370.
Ghibelline, 334.
Gibbon, quoted, 79, 81, 89.
Gilbert, 172.
Godfrey of Bouillon, 8;
career, 82 sq.;
expedition, 86;
relations to Alexius, 86;
at Dorylæum, 97;
Antioch, 107;
straits, 113;
discretion, 120;
services to Moslems, 121;
attacks Jerusalem, 121 sq.;
spoils, 133;
Baron of Holy Sepulchre, 134 sq.;
Ascalon, 136 sq.;
quarrel with Raymond, 138;
rule, 140;
attacks Asur, 141;
submission to Pope, 142;
Assizes of Jerusalem, 142;
death and character, 142, 143;
assists Hospitallers, 157;
gifts to Papacy, 371.
Godric, 146.
Golden Horn, captured, 273.
Gottschalk, 80.
Green, quoted, 21.
Gregory V., 45.
Gregory VI., 45.
Gregory VII. See Hildebrand.
Gregory IX., 300, 315, 316 sq., 322, 323;
weakness, 374.
Grosseteste, Robert, 374.
Guelph, 334.
Guibert, antipope, 50.
Guibert, quoted, 77, 105.
Guiscard, Robert, 24, 83, 84, 247.
Guizot, quoted, 33, 37, 199;
portrait of Richard I., 202;
of Louis VIII., 330.
Gunther, 288, 289.
Guy d’Ibelin, 354.
Guy of Lusignan, 185, 188, 189;
disregards oath, 214;
maintains right to sceptre, 218;
supported by Richard, 223;
Cyprus, 228.
Hadrian IV., 201.
Hallam, quoted, 9, 11, 30, 34.
Hamah, 154.
Hanifs, 52.
Hanseatic League, 378.
Harding, 147.
Haroun-al-Raschid, 55, 67.
Hassan, 228.
Helena, 65, 133.
Henry, brother of Baldwin, 294.
Henry I., England, 21, 138, 164.
Henry II., England, 34;
crown of Jerusalem, 186;
possessions, 199, 201;
death, 201;
relations to Philip Augustus, 206 sq.
Henry III., England, 331, 357.
Henry III., Germany, 46.
Henry IV., Germany, papal opposition, 23, 47, 49;
relations to Godfrey, 82.
Henry V., Germany, 161.
Henry VI., Germany, 232, 234, 237;
in Sicily, 238;
death, 240;
“German tax,” 246.
Henry Dandolo. See Dandolo.
Henry of Hesse, 334.
Henry of Sicily, 247.
Heraclius, Greek emperor, 67, 133.
Heraclius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, 186.
Herbaud, 10.
Hezas, emir of, 121.
Hildebrand, 8, 39;
reforms, 44, 46, 47;
claims, 47 sq.;
reliance on emperor, 49;
bull against Henry IV., 49;
negotiations with Greeks, 50;
alliance with Saracens, 58;
summons against the Turks, 62;
sends Cencius on pilgrimage, 70.
Holy Lance, 114 sq.
Honorius II., 166.
Honorius III., 303.
Hospitallers, 156 sq.;
Saladin’s revenge, 190;
permitted to remain in Jerusalem, 193;
rivalries, 236, 297, 367;
refuse help to Frederick II., 318;
overtures to Louis IX., 338, 355;
at Mansourah, 345, 347.
Hovenden, quoted, 221.
Hugh Capet, 33.
Hugh de Payen, 158.
Hugh de Puzas, 219, 232.
Hugh of Vermandois, 116, 140.
Humphrey, 218.
Iconium, Sultan of, 170, 246.
Ida of Austria, 139, 140.
Ida of Bouillon, 8, 82.
“Il Consolato del Mare,” 379.
Innocent II., 162.
Innocent III., 253, 262;
hastens crusaders, 265, 279;
rebuke, 290;
preaches fifth crusade, 301-303;
guardianship of Frederick II., 313;
absolute power, 374.
Innocent IV., 328, 329, 334, 357, 374.
Inquisition, 374.
Iolante, 314.
Ireland, time of Henry II., 200.
Irene, daughter of Isaac Comnenus, 247.
Irene, opinion of Alexius, 88.
Isaac, King of Cyprus, 222.
Isaac Angelus, 211, 212, 217, 258, 267, 278, 281, 282.
Isaac Comnenus, 244.
Isabella, widow of Conrad, 228.
Isabella, wife of Amaury II., 297.
Jaffa, in third crusade, 226, 230, 238;
conquered by Bibars, 363.
James of Vitri, 302.
Jean Tristan, 351, 365.
Jerome, St., to Paulinus, 66.
Jerusalem, Assizes of, 142.
Jerusalem, Patriarch of, 72, 303.
Jerusalem, under Omar, 55;
fall of, 63;
captured by Chosroes, 66;
by crusaders, 125 sq.;
under Saladin, 192;
acquisition by Frederick, 319;
carnage under Carismians, 326, 327.
Jews, persecution of, 204.
Joanna, sister to Richard I., 222, 227.
John, Cardinal, 247.
John, King of England, 232, 233;
fifth crusade, 302.
John VIII., 56.
John X., 57.
John Baliol, 363.
John Comnenus, 152.
John Eleemon, 157.
John of Brienne, 297, 298, 307, 310, 311, 318, 320, 322.
Joinville, Prince de, 335, 336, 338, 344, 347, 348, 350, 353-355, 358.
Josselin II., 155.
Josselin de Courtenay, 147, 150, 154.
Kanabos, Nicholas, 282.
Kerbogha, 109, 112, 115, 116;
routed, 117;
revenge, 140.
Khalil, 367.
Kilidge-Arslan, 81, 91, 94, 97;
routed, 117;
revenge, 139;
third crusade, 212.
Koran. See Mohammed.
Koutouz, 362.
La Marche, 331.
Lance, Holy, 114 sq.
Lanfranc, 7.
Lascaris, 275, 322.
Lateran Councils. See Councils.
Leo IX., 46.
Leopold of Austria, 227, 232 sq.
Liegnitz, battle of, 325.
Litz, Martin, 288.
Longchamp, 220, 232.
Longsword, William, 342, 345, 346.
Lothaire, 164.
Louis, St. See Louis IX.
Louis, St., laws of, 34, 35.
Louis IV. (the Fat), 36, 161.
Louis VI., 33.
Louis VII., 164, 166, 167;
rupture with Eleanor, 173;
at Jerusalem, 173;
Damascus, 174;
return, 176;
divorce, 198.
Louis VIII., 330.
Louis IX., 330;
character, 331 sq.;
seventh crusade, 333, 335 sq.;
valor, 339, 346, 349;
illness, 348, 350;
overtures to sultan, 348;
prisoner, 350 sq.;
liberation, 353 sq.;
treaty with sultan, 358;
broken, 358;
grief at death of Blanche, 359;
return, 359, 360;
eighth crusade, 363 sq.;
death, 365, 366;
revolt against Rome, 375.
Louis of Chartres and Blois, 255.
Lucius III., letter to Henry II., 186.
Ludwig, Landgrave of Thuringia, 316.
Lydda, 123.
Lyons, Council of, 329.
Maarah, 121.
Mad Hakem, 57, 68.
Magna Charta, 377.
Malek-Ahdel, 192, 227, 236, 238, 240;
treaty with Dandolo, 262, 280;
renewal of truce, 297;
policy, 304;
death, 306.
Malek-Kamel, 308, 309, 316, 318, 320.
Malek-Shah, 62, 63.
Mamelukes, 361 sq.
Mansourah, 310, 343, 344 sq.
Manuel, 168, 170, 179.
Manzikert, battle of, 62.
Marco Polo, 378.
Margaret of Hungary, 237, 241.
Margarit, Admiral, 214.
Marguerite, wife of Louis IX., 330, 335, 339, 341, 351, 353, 354, 359.
Maria, daughter of Manuel, 259.
Maria, widow of Isaac, 292.
Maria of Constantinople, 246.
Mariolatry, 53.
Marozia, 44.
Martin Litz, 288.
Mary, daughter of Isabella, 297, 298, 314.
Matilda, Countess, 8;
gift to Papacy, 372.
Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror, 21, 199.
Matthew Paris, reference to Tartars, 325;
to Blanche of Castile, 330;
to Henry III., 357.
Melisende, 152, 173.
Melun, Count of, 113.
Merlin, prediction of, 202.
Merseburg, crusading army at, 80.
Michael, Emperor, 63.
Michaud, criticised, 3.
Michelet, quoted, 161.
Milman, quoted, 4, 132.
Milo de Plausy, 182.
Moguls, 324.
Mohammed, 51 sq.
Mohammed, Sultan of Carismia, 324.
Mohammed II., 275, 380.
Mohammedanism, 51 sq.
Montferrat, Marquis of, 184, 214.
Mortmain, Statute of, 375.
Mourtzouphlos, 282, 283, 285, 294.
Nahr Falik, 225.
Nazareth, destroyed by Bibars, 363.
Negmeddin, 338, 343.
Nicæa, fall of, 91 sq.
Nicephorus, 25.
Nicetas, quoted, 212, 270, 271, 273, 285-287.
Nichita, Bulgarian prince, 79.
Nicholas, boy, 299.
Nicholas IV., 367.
Nicholas Kanabos, 282.
Nicholas Roux, 271.
Nisch, Peter’s army at, 79.
Norgate, quoted, 200.
Nourredin, 155, 175;
character, 178;
magnanimity, 179;
supreme, 181;
death, 182.
Octai, 324.
Odoacer, 242.
Oleron, Laws of, 379.
Oliver, 20.
Omar, 55.
Ortuk, 73.
Othello, Shakespeare’s, 59.
Othman, 70.
Otho, contest with Philip of Swabia, 298, 302.
Otho the Great, 34.
Oxford, University of, 378.
Padua, University of, 378.
Palazzo Vecchio, 377.
Papacy, effect of crusades on, 161 sq., 371 sq.
Paris, University of, 378.
Parliament, English, 377.
Paschal II., 23;
sanctions Hospitallers, 157, 162.
Paula, companion of Jerome, 66.
Paulinus, 66.
Pears, Edward, quoted, 295.
Pelagius, Cardinal, 307, 309-311.
Pelusium, captured, 180.
Pembroke, Earl of, 363.
Peter Barthelemi, 114, 118;
Ordeal, 119.
Peter Capuano, 262.
Peter the Hermit, not solely responsible for crusades, 3;
career, 71 sq.;
meets chieftains, 91;
desertion, 105;
messenger to Kerbogha, 115;
before Jerusalem, 129;
end of career, 138.
Petrarch, 377.
Pharamella the Moor, 196.
Philip, son of Louis IX., 365.
Philip I., 148, 152.
Philip Augustus, 199, 201;
third crusade, 207 sq., 219 sq.;
anger at Richard, 222;
declares for Conrad, 223;
jealousies, 223;
returns, 225;
plots, 232, 233, 237;
fifth crusade, 302.
Philip of Swabia, 258, 261;
message to Zara, 266;
contest with Otho, 298;
emperorship, 292.
Philip the Fair, 375.
Phirous, 108, 109, 111.
Piacenza, Synod of, 74.
Pilgrimages, 64 sq.
Pisano, 377.
Poitiers, Count of, 343, 355.
Portugal, King of, 363.
Pragmatic Sanction, 375.
Ptolemaïs. See Acre.
Ptolemaïs, emir of, 123.
Ramleh, 123;
capture of, 146.
Raymond d’Agiles, 133.
Raymond de Puy, 157.
Raymond of Poitiers, 172.
Raymond of Toulouse, 22, 83;
expedition, 87;
at Dorylæum, 97;
Antioch, 106;
defiance of Bohemond, 108;
straits at Antioch, 113;
quarrels with Bohemond, 120, 121;
attacks Maarah, 121;
besieges Arkas, 122;
Jerusalem, 130, 131;
clemency, 133;
plots, 135;
sulks, 136;
at Ascalon, 137;
claims Ascalon, 137;
quarrel with Godfrey, 138;
after first crusade, 139;
flight, 140;
submission to Pope, 142;
death, 148.
Raymond of Tripoli, 182, 183, 187, 189.
Redowan, 121.
Renaud of Carac, 183, 189, 190.
Renoart, 20.
Reynier, brother of Boniface, 259.
Rheims, Archbishop of, 94.
Rheims, Council of, 45.
Richard I., 24, 34, 201;
character, 202;
releases Eleanor, 202;
crowned, 203;
vow, 205;
recklessness, 208;
third crusade, 219 sq.;
quarrels with Tancred and Philip, 222, 223;
subdues Cyprus, 222;
declares for Guy, 223;
massacres Moslems, 225;
at Nahr Falik, 225;
Jaffa, 226;
finesse, 227;
retreat, 229, 230;
recaptures Jaffa, 230;
peace, 231;
returns, 232;
prisoner, 232 sq.;
release, 234;
hatred of Philip Augustus, 237;
gives Cyprus to Templars, 246;
traditional author of “Laws of Oleron,” 379.
Richard of Cornwall, 323.
Robert, brother of Henry I., England, 21.
Robert d’Artois, 342, 344, 347.
Robert de Clari, quoted, 260.
Robert Guiscard. See Guiscard.
Robert of Flanders, 23, 85;
expedition, 87;
at Antioch, 110.
Robert of France, 18.
Robert of Leicester, 233.
Robert of Normandy, 70, 85;
expedition, 87;
at Dorylæum, 96 sq.;
desertion, 105;
refuses help, 136;
at Ascalon, 137, 138;
end of career, 138.
Roger de Wendover, 202.
Roger of Sicily, 11, 168, 247.
Roland, 20.
Rollo, 7.
Romanus IV., 62.
Rosamond, 201, 202.
Rudolph, 82.
Rufinus, Bishop of Acre, 189.
Sa’di, 297.
Safed, destroyed by Bibars, 363.
Saif Eddin, 362.
St. John, Knights of. See Hospitallers.
St. Sophia, Church of, 250.
Saladin, 176, 180;
rise, 181;
defeat at Ascalon, 183;
revenge on Renaud, 183, 190;
victories, 187 sq.;
revenge on Templars, 190;
fall of Jerusalem, 191 sq.;
generosity, 192, 193;
challenge of Barbarossa, 210;
his reply, 211;
attacks Tyre, 214;
Tripoli, 214;
Carac, 214;
releases Guy, 214;
at Acre, 215 sq., 225;
courtesies, 223, 224;
at Nahr Falik, 225;
burns Ascalon, 227;
finesse, 227, 228;
captures Jaffa, 230;
peace, 231;
death, 235.
Saladin’s tithe, 207, 208.
Salisbury Cathedral, 377.
Santa Croce, 377.
Saracens. See Mohammedans.
Saxony, Duke of, 237, 240.
Scott, Walter, quoted, 24;
opinion of Alexius, 88.
Seljuk, 61.
Semlin, looted by Peter, 79.
Shirkuh, 180.
Sibylla, 184, 185, 192;
death, 218.
Sidon, capture, 149.
Sigur of Norway, 149.
Simeon, Patriarch of Jerusalem, 72.
Simon de Montfort, 237, 298.
Sismondi, quoted, 15.
Soissons, Bishop of, 284, 293.
Solyman, 63, 102.
Stanley, quoted, 19.
Stephen, boy, 299.
Stephen, King, 199.
Stephen of Blois, 85, 87, 101;
desertion, 113, 139;
slain, 147.
Stephen of Burgundy, 147.
Suger of St. Denis, 168, 176, 177, 199.
Sweno of Denmark, 104.
Sylvester II., 7, 45.
Tancred, agent of William II., 247.
Tancred de Hauteville, 84, 85, 90, 97;
at Tarsus, 99;
quarrel with Baldwin, 99;
character, 105;
valor, 106;
at Bethlehem, 124;
Jerusalem, 131;
clemency, 133;
Ascalon, 136 sq.;
Godfrey’s right hand, 141;
escape, 147;
death and character, 149.
Tancred of Sicily, 222.
Tarik, 56.
Tarsus, 99.
Tartars, 324 sq.;
overtures to Louis IX., 337;
progress, 362.
Tasso, quoted, 24, 25, 126.
Templars, 158, 159;
Saladin’s revenge, 190;
rivalries, 236, 298, 367;
get Cyprus, 246;
refuse help to Frederick II., 318;
overtures to Louis IX., 338;
at Mansourah, 345, 347;
ask Louis to remain in Syria, 355;
abolished, 375.
Teutonic Knights, 159;
ask Louis to remain in Syria, 355.
Theobald of Champagne, 228, 255, 258.
Theodora, 44.
Theodora, daughter, 44.
Theodora, sister of Isaac Angelus, 259.
Theodora, wife of Baldwin II., 179.
Theodore Lascaris, 275, 322.
Thibaut V., 322, 323.
Thibaut of Champagne, 164.
Thierri, 172, 175.
Thierry, quoted, 12.
Third Estate, 377.
Thoron, 239.
Thoros, 100.
Tiberias, battle of, 187 sq.
Tolosa, battle of, 298.
Tortosa, 122.
Tripoli, captured, 148;
resists Saladin, 214;
fall, 297.
Tristan, Jean, 357, 365.
Troubadours, 377.
Troyes, Bishop of, 284.
Truce of God, 17.
Tunis, 364.
Turkomans, 358.
Turks, 60 sq.;
advance of, 379, 380.
Tyre, fall of, 152, 297.
Urban II., not solely responsible for crusades, 3;
his opportunity, 50, 63;
speech at Clermont, 70, 74;
commissions Peter, 72;
synod at Piacenza, 74;
absolves crusaders, 373.
Urban III., 194.
Vataces, 322.
Vaux, Abbot of, 264.
Vecchio, Palazzo, 377.
Venice, relations with East, 248.
See Dandolo.
Victor III., 45.
Villehardouin, 255, 256, 263, 278, 285.
Vivien, 23.
Volkman, 80.
Waldenses, 197, 198, 375.
Waldo, Peter, 197, 198.
Walter the Penniless, 78.
Warwick, Earl of, 363.
Westminster Abbey, 377.
William, brother of Tancred, 97.
William II., Sicily, 247.
William of Champeaux, 8.
William of Orange, 23.
William of Poitiers, 139, 140.
William of Salisbury, 342, 345, 346.
William of Scotland, 201.
William of Sicily, 247.
William of Tyre, 80, 182, 184;
third crusade, 206 sq., 213.
William Rufus, 21, 85.
William the Conqueror, 21.
Worms, Concordat of, 162.
Zara, 261 sq.
Zenghi, 152 sq.
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