The Knights Hospitaller still exist as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, a sovereign state that has diplomatic relations with 107 countries and observer status at the UN. It is the oldest surviving knightly order in the world.
Can you give me a cite that they deny being the same Knights of St John of Old? Whilst there were Lieutenants of the Grand Master during the period you discuss, and as there is presently, the Order lists Grand Masters and Lieutenants from Blessed Gerard in 1099 until today without a break.
Thank you for this - one of the things about the Hospitallers which has always fascinated me is how they transformed (branched out?) from ultra medic/warrior monks into ultra seafaring medic/warrior monks. The Muslim corsairs were the most feared, and effective, pirates in the Western world until they were successfully challenged by the Knights Hospitallers. I would love to see an examination of that aspect of the Order because their mastering of the sea really is unique among all the military orders of that time. Again, thank you for all your good work!
During my training and wearing the “short white coat “ I had the eight pointed cross on my left shoulder. Today, I am retired from a career in our military and a recipient of the same care I once provided. Thanks for the outline of the Knights if Saint John.
Knights Hospitaller were also in medival Poland. Polish prince Henry of Samdomierz brought them back from his crusade to Holy Land in the mid-12th century. They later established several settlements in Lesser and Greater Poland, Silesia and Pomerania. They, with breaks, continue to operate till now. God bless You! ✝️
The 8-pointed cross emblem used by the Knights Hospitaller _(of St John, Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta)_ -commonly known today as the “Maltese Cross”- represents the eight beatitudes Christ delivered in the Sermon on the Mount.
My question is, did the King of Jerusalem finance the building of the castles in which the Hospitallers were based, such as Krak de Chavalier, or did the Hospitallers pay for their construction? The cost of building even one castle the size of Krak in modern currency has been estimated to over 1 Billion Dollars. When one considers the workmanship and also the great number and size of such fortresses the costs of building them all must have been prohibitive, exceeding even the income of rich European kingdoms such as France, England or The Holy Roman Empire. If the Hospitallers financed the building projects - not only in the Holy Lands but in Europe - they must have been fabuously rich, far beyond any ruling monarch of their era. The same query goes for the Templars and their countless buildings and castles.
In the Alps of Haute-Provence, at the feet of Mount of Lure, there are 2 villages founded by Hospitaller knights in XIth century AD: Lardiers, where you can visit the Roman Commanderie in which religious celebrations still happen, and L’Hospitalet, where a medieval hospital was run by the Hospitaller. These are apparently the 2 only such places in Provence. Thanks for your research work and video.
My "ancestors" I can say, since I am a volunteer to the sovereign military order of The Knights of Malta. So fascinated by their heritage and history, especially regarding their beautiful mix of military tradition and service to the poor and helpless. Tuitio fidei et obsequium pauperum.
There is a village called Hospital de Órbigo, near the city of León in northern Spain. I think it was founded by the hospitallers. Every year the villagers celebrate a medieval fair and joust. The village is known for the knight Don Suero de Quiňones that joust every knight who wanted to go through the bridge, all for an unrequired love.
Fun Fact The Knights Hospitaller still exists today though they are no longer a military order, they have over 12000 members and volunteers and are active in over a hundred countries, where they continue the tradition of giving aid and healing those in need. They have their own passports and have a permanent observers seat at the UN, their current headquarters are in the Vatican.😎
Very interesting ! Would you eventually create an episode (or several) describing the day to day life of a member of the Order ? knhgt, preferably, in peace or war, insisting on their training. What I find extraordinary is the existence of several thousand monks who, in those ignorant times, not only were crack-fighters but could all of them read and write ! There is a legend telling about the so-called "saplin feat". Besides their hand to hand combat, in certain pre-established days, a knight, even without armor, only with his iron gloves, was able to grab a small tree in his 2 hands and squeeze the sap out of it ! As a proof of sheer force. The winner was the knight who's spiral of tree fibers (angle with the vertical) was bigger...
Teutonic Knights Order of Saint Marry of the German house in Jerusalem, but established in Arca, at their beginning they were ALSO Hospitallers Order, which later on was transformed into the strict Knights order !!!
JSR, As portrayed in Kingdom of Heaven, were knights Hospitliers better at treating wounds and diseases that the average Crusader knight or the same? Were they like a unit medic?
Eric Rogers if they were they had learned their knowledge of medicine from the Syriac Christians native to the holy land. Syriac knowledge of medicine was far superior to that of Western Europe.
but you also have a split. The order of Malta which stayed catholic and on the island and the order that stayed on the mainland, mostly Germany that became protestant and exists today as the order of St. John.
(2) On November 13, 1798 Tsar Paul I accepted the appointment to Grand Master of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitaller also called Knights of Rhodes and later of Malta. On 6 July 1799, persuaded by Francis I of Hapsburg , Ferdinand von Hompesch sent in his formal act of abdication to the Sovereign Council of the Order, along with three letters to the two Emperors. Under papal approval, the Emperor made many improvements to bring the Order up to date and responsive to the needs of the time. It was no secret that Tsar Paul I did not like the French or Napoleon. He in fact, moved into armed neutrality with Britain against France. Conspiracies within the Russian Empire to the benefit of Austria and France moved to have the Tsar murdered when he refused to abdicate. His son Alexander became Tsar, however he was careful not to take on the title of Grandmaster and only of Hereditary Protector. Till even then, the SMOM (Sovereign Military Order of the Knights of St John), did not exist in 1803, when the Maltese... (cont 3)
Great vid , thx ! Even me personally i live near al-Markab fort , and i visited both Al-Markab and Krak-De-Chevalier , impressive forts ! They stand against all factors and remain intact even during the crises .. BUT ! where are the Hospitalers now days ? Where they moved after the major invasion of the Ottoman bastards ? Me personally dont beleive such dedicated believers will simply vanquish ... i will appreciate a fair answer
I'm interested in better understanding the life of the average Christian in Jerusalem in the years just before 1096. Can someone point me to a concise work? I'm thinking they must have been subject to dhimmitude but were they enslaved? were they physically abused? or just second class citizens at that point?
These things are never very clear cut, it depends on several details. First of all, living in the Holy Land at the moment the Muslims were conquering it is one thing (which meant, usually, massive looting, raping and enslavement to sustain a militaristic ultra state in constant expansion), another thing is living there after it was firmly under Muslim control; then it would be a part of that empire, and so it wouldn't be likely that they would go around pillaging and enslaving the people who lived in their own land, although this would also not be impossible. Then there's the question of whether you were enslaved in the conquest, managed to remain free, or was somewhat of an influential individual; for these powerful men, the restrictions would mostly be not being able to live accordingly to the Catholic faith in its entirety, and maybe having to be deprived of some Sacraments, also being seen as an inferior human or beast, aside from this life should be relatively normal. For the others, however, it could be much different; ruination for not being able to pay the non-Muslim taxes, being subject to bad treatment, maybe forceful precarious living conditions, being subject to raids and abductions.... It all varies depending on where and what time you're on, but it was definitely not pleasant I can assure you. However, I imagine the worst part would be being deprived of a truly Catholic life, having to receive the Sacraments in a manner similar to the times of the Catacombs, if you could receive them at all. That, and also knowing that you are living under the overlords who cause so much pain and suffering to your Christians brothers abroad, on areas they are currently conquerin. If you want an account of just how horrific these conquests could be, I remember reading in a book by Marc Bloch ("A Sociedade Feudal" which should translate to "Feudal Society") of one Muslim warlord who estabilished himself in a fortified abbey on the mountains of South Italy, he took numerous nuns as prisoners, and every day would violate one of them on top of the altar, before decapitating her. I hate recounting this story, and am doing it here merely to inform you; I'm sorry for not pointing you to the exact page or giving any specific names, but I really want to think as little as possible about this event, if you are interested though, I'm sure you'll be able to find it in the book (it's in the beggining if I'm not mistaken), this is a classical and most libraries should have it. Anyways, I hope this helped
very helpful, thanks for taking the time to write. In hindsight, I think it may have been naive of me to think that all Christians in the Levant would be treated similarly in all areas. I have read up on Dhhimitude but I imagined that paying a tax might be the least of their concerns. Had conditions worsened to a great degree in around 1090? or was it just the plea from Constantinople that triggered the Pope to call the first Crusade?
You are very welcome; just to complete the previous thought, even the influential Christians would have no guarantees of decent living, since after a while there weren't any influential Christians left in the region... I'm not sure how the situation was at the time of the first Crusade, but after the Christians lost their holdings in the Holy Land, Christianity pretty much disappeared from the region. The number of Christians from then up until (arguably) this day was reduced in a manner similar to what happened after Tokugawa's implantation of the Shogunate in Japan. As for the reasons, aside from the danger of progressive Muslim encroachement on Christendom (which the Byzantines standed in the way of, doing basically what the Hungarians, Polish, and Eastern European Christians would do after its fall), and the great hardship Christians endured; around the time of the first Crusade the Muslims started to severely limit/block the pilgrimage paths to the Holy Land. Pilgrimages were a very big part of people's lives during most of the Middle Ages (it would be somewhat comparable to how most people travel on vacations nowadays, every now and then); just so you have an idea, I remember reading accounts of constant traffic in some of the roads, depending on the path you took there would literally always be dozens of unknown pilgrims next to you going the same path. All period sources that describe in some way medieval life mention the pilgrimages (Christine de Pizan's "The Book of the City of Ladies" and "The Treasure of the City of Ladies", and the Anonymous "Le Ménagier de Paris" are the two that jump to my mind as mentioning them extensively), it was literally a part of everyone's life, from serf to king. Around the end of the XI century, the Muslim rulers of the Holy Land (I believe it was the Fatimid Caliphate at this time, but I'm not sure) made it unprecendetely difficult for pilgrims to reach the Holy Land - the ultimate stage of a process that had started a long time ago -, they would at the very least be forced to return home when they reached Muslim lands, but usually they were actually robbed and enslaved/killed by patrols (Ramón Llull actually provides many descriptions of these events, though in a much later period, in the XIII century). Still, pilgramages were core to Christian life then, and people continued making the perilous voyages anyways; the need to protect these pilgrims was the final straw that triggered a large scale military mobilization of Christendom. I can't stress the importance of the pilgrimages enough, many military orders had a very strict relation to this practice, the Templars and the Hospitallers are the two most famous examples of orders whose main aim at its creation was protecting the pilgrims, but even in Spain you can find examples of orders that kept the way to Santiago de Compostela safe (it was arguably on par with the Holy Land as pilgrimage destination in terms of popularity). Many Crusades were themselves pilgrimages in a way, being accompanied by huge masses of civilians that went on pilgrimage enjoying the direct protection of the Crusaders; Régine Pernoud actually has some good accounts of this in her book "A Mulher no Tempo das Cruzadas" (which should translate to "Women in the Age of the Crusades), she describes how it was not uncommon for Ladies to accompany their Lords when they went to the Holy Land on Crusade, the men went to help in the fighting, while the women took the opportunity to make a pilgrimage under a safe escort, and also to be close to their husbands. She even shows some accounts of how female dresses, perfumery, and stuff like this loaded the Crusader wagons on their trips, it's really a very interesting read. I'm sorry for not providing you with more sources, citations, and exact names of places and people; this kind of loose recounting of history that I am doing really bothers me, but the pre-Crusade Holy Land is not really my area of expertise, so I have limited information to share. If you're interested, however, I can give you a copy of a list of books I have compiled about medieval history; with all the misinformation about this period, it is very hard to find decent works about it, so I collected the names of any author or book I found to be relatively credible in a word document, and use it to direct my own studies when needed. It is in Portuguese, but if you find it interesting I can start translating it for you, and should be done in about three weeks (it's big and I have a lot of things to do, so it will take me a while). Here is the link, tell me if you wish me to start translating it: docs.google.com/document/d/1IhH2j4N7iYy9ApTNLky-711Mc_SiYFwROUpzdbI0A2A/edit?usp=sharing
Rafael de Rezende great post, one of the best ive seen on youtube to be honest. I also wanted to throw in that the early muslim rulers actually relied a lot on the non-muslim taxes to fund their military too
I'm pretty sure you're joking but just in case you're not; the "assassin brotherhood" never existed. It's a fantasy made up by ubisofts Assassins Creed. Still a fun game though.
For me Christianity is one whole belief, I don't really believe in the tradition of Catholics or orthodox because what it means to be Christian is the belief of Christ and his teachings which should be followed by Christians, but I respect their tradition tho. I just hope more Christians follow their beliefs without dogma, I suggest Ravi Zachariah's books if you guys want to know more about the Christian philosophy and the belief of God.
The Knights Hospitaller still exist as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, a sovereign state that has diplomatic relations with 107 countries and observer status at the UN. It is the oldest surviving knightly order in the world.
Is that the same a s the Knights of Malta from 1048?
Is this Jovan from Suscipe Domine, Fisheaters, etc?
It is, indeed!
Can you give me a cite that they deny being the same Knights of St John of Old? Whilst there were Lieutenants of the Grand Master during the period you discuss, and as there is presently, the Order lists Grand Masters and Lieutenants from Blessed Gerard in 1099 until today without a break.
Jovan Weismiller I personally think it's amazing how it's still going.
The first NHS hospitals ❤ bless them 🙏🏻
Thank you for this - one of the things about the Hospitallers which has always fascinated me is how they transformed (branched out?) from ultra medic/warrior monks into ultra seafaring medic/warrior monks. The Muslim corsairs were the most feared, and effective, pirates in the Western world until they were successfully challenged by the Knights Hospitallers. I would love to see an examination of that aspect of the Order because their mastering of the sea really is unique among all the military orders of that time. Again, thank you for all your good work!
The Hospitallers ( by then already known as the Knights of Malta) also contributed to the Christian victory against the Turks at Lepanto in 1571.
My favorite Medieval Military and Holy Order! Their story and the history behind the order is amazing.
The Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages they still exits today.
During my training and wearing the “short white coat “ I had the eight pointed cross on my left shoulder. Today, I am retired from a career in our military and a recipient of the same care I once provided. Thanks for the outline of the Knights if Saint John.
My father is a member of the Order of Malta. Knight of Grace and Devotion
Knights Hospitaller were also in medival Poland. Polish prince Henry of Samdomierz brought them back from his crusade to Holy Land in the mid-12th century. They later established several settlements in Lesser and Greater Poland, Silesia and Pomerania. They, with breaks, continue to operate till now. God bless You! ✝️
cool. Didn't know that
Did not know Poles participated in the Crusades. Gdzie można więcej poczytać ? Pozdrawiam ! ✝️👑🇵🇱🇺🇸
The 8-pointed cross emblem used by the Knights Hospitaller _(of St John, Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta)_ -commonly known today as the “Maltese Cross”- represents the eight beatitudes Christ delivered in the Sermon on the Mount.
My question is, did the King of Jerusalem finance the building of the castles in which the Hospitallers were based, such as Krak de Chavalier, or did the Hospitallers pay for their construction? The cost of building even one castle the size of Krak in modern currency has been estimated to over 1 Billion Dollars. When one considers the workmanship and also the great number and size of such fortresses the costs of building them all must have been prohibitive, exceeding even the income of rich European kingdoms such as France, England or The Holy Roman Empire. If the Hospitallers financed the building projects - not only in the Holy Lands but in Europe - they must have been fabuously rich, far beyond any ruling monarch of their era. The same query goes for the Templars and their countless buildings and castles.
In the Alps of Haute-Provence, at the feet of Mount of Lure, there are 2 villages founded by Hospitaller knights in XIth century AD: Lardiers, where you can visit the Roman Commanderie in which religious celebrations still happen, and L’Hospitalet, where a medieval hospital was run by the Hospitaller. These are apparently the 2 only such places in Provence. Thanks for your research work and video.
My "ancestors" I can say, since I am a volunteer to the sovereign military order of The Knights of Malta. So fascinated by their heritage and history, especially regarding their beautiful mix of military tradition and service to the poor and helpless.
Tuitio fidei et obsequium pauperum.
There is a village called Hospital de Órbigo, near the city of León in northern Spain. I think it was founded by the hospitallers.
Every year the villagers celebrate a medieval fair and joust. The village is known for the knight Don Suero de Quiňones that joust every knight who wanted to go through the bridge, all for an unrequired love.
Fun Fact The Knights Hospitaller still exists today though they are no longer a military order, they have over 12000 members and volunteers and are active in over a hundred countries, where they continue the tradition of giving aid and healing those in need. They have their own passports and have a permanent observers seat at the UN, their current headquarters are in the Vatican.😎
The head quarters is outside of the Vatican and is sovereign territory of the odder.
Very interesting ! Would you eventually create an episode (or several) describing the day to day life of a member of the Order ? knhgt, preferably, in peace or war, insisting on their training. What I find extraordinary is the existence of several thousand monks who, in those ignorant times, not only were crack-fighters but could all of them read and write ! There is a legend telling about the so-called "saplin feat". Besides their hand to hand combat, in certain pre-established days, a knight, even without armor, only with his iron gloves, was able to grab a small tree in his 2 hands and squeeze the sap out of it ! As a proof of sheer force. The winner was the knight who's spiral of tree fibers (angle with the vertical) was bigger...
Teutonic Knights Order of Saint Marry of the German house in Jerusalem, but established in Arca, at their beginning they were ALSO Hospitallers Order, which later on was transformed into the strict Knights order !!!
True , I’m a member today
BEST.CRUSADING.ORDER.
1:10 And that cat knows it .
JSR,
As portrayed in Kingdom of Heaven, were knights Hospitliers better at treating wounds and diseases that the average Crusader knight or the same? Were they like a unit medic?
Eric Rogers if they were they had learned their knowledge of medicine from the Syriac Christians native to the holy land. Syriac knowledge of medicine was far superior to that of Western Europe.
Can that cat become an honorary member of the Knights Hospitaler
Being a practicing catholic,,, and goin a group near you.. They do a lot of medical work.
If they weren't so badass in their own right, I would've called it a lost opportunity that they weren't called "Dark Templars'.
Than they would be overshadowed by the Templar order, which they sadly already do. It's like calling Vatican City "Holy Italy".
Do you mean Black Templars by any chance?
Those guys sure love their chainswords
Black knights is cooler..
Dark Templars? Black Templars? Black Knights? Dark Knight? wait... BATMAN!!!
God I love the music used in these vids, it just speaks to me
Great to hear!
I have enjoyed a number of your videos brother and learned a great deal. If I were you I would consider re-recording this one.
I'm just glad Krak des Chevaliers survived the Syrian civil war with just little damage.
knights hospitaler are actually knights of st.john?
Kinghts Hospitaler=Knights of St. John= Knights of Malta....
Leonardo here, glad to help (even with just a little) such a great channel
Welcome and thanks!
im pretty sure that Krak des Chevalier has been severely damaged in the recent civil war
A lot of monuments have been specifically targeted because what they represent.
Reminds me of the Navy Corpsman serving with a Marine Unit....
You could mention the red cloak, worn at war.
Bolchevik duck Fancy seeing you here XD
That was added a bit later.
@@RealCrusadesHistory Скажите Мне Пожалуйста Крестовый Поход на Иран Было а Захват Персию Сисанидов
@@RealCrusadesHistory Скажите Мне А Госпитальеры Сражались Айюбидами и Сисанидами Тимуридами а Франки-Тамплиеры Сражались Сарматов Сарацинов
@@RealCrusadesHistory Госпитальеры Сражались Тимуридами
Enjoyed listening. Good video
but you also have a split. The order of Malta which stayed catholic and on the island and the order that stayed on the mainland, mostly Germany that became protestant and exists today as the order of St. John.
(2) On November 13, 1798 Tsar Paul I accepted the appointment to Grand Master of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitaller also called Knights of Rhodes and later of Malta. On 6 July 1799, persuaded by Francis I of Hapsburg , Ferdinand von Hompesch sent in his formal act of abdication to the Sovereign Council of the Order, along with three letters to the two Emperors. Under papal approval, the Emperor made many improvements to bring the Order up to date and responsive to the needs of the time. It was no secret that Tsar Paul I did not like the French or Napoleon. He in fact, moved into armed neutrality with Britain against France. Conspiracies within the Russian Empire to the benefit of Austria and France moved to have the Tsar murdered when he refused to abdicate. His son Alexander became Tsar, however he was careful not to take on the title of Grandmaster and only of Hereditary Protector. Till even then, the SMOM (Sovereign Military Order of the Knights of St John), did not exist in 1803, when the Maltese... (cont 3)
The Order continued to exist, but with the role of Grand Master being vacant, as it is right now.
Great vid , thx ! Even me personally i live near al-Markab fort , and i visited both Al-Markab and Krak-De-Chevalier , impressive forts ! They stand against all factors and remain intact even during the crises ..
BUT ! where are the Hospitalers now days ? Where they moved after the major invasion of the Ottoman bastards ?
Me personally dont beleive such dedicated believers will simply vanquish ... i will appreciate a fair answer
1:14 who saw the cat near the holy stone thing
Your music is amazing.
Thanks!
I'm interested in better understanding the life of the average Christian in Jerusalem in the years just before 1096. Can someone point me to a concise work? I'm thinking they must have been subject to dhimmitude but were they enslaved? were they physically abused? or just second class citizens at that point?
These things are never very clear cut, it depends on several details. First of all, living in the Holy Land at the moment the Muslims were conquering it is one thing (which meant, usually, massive looting, raping and enslavement to sustain a militaristic ultra state in constant expansion), another thing is living there after it was firmly under Muslim control; then it would be a part of that empire, and so it wouldn't be likely that they would go around pillaging and enslaving the people who lived in their own land, although this would also not be impossible. Then there's the question of whether you were enslaved in the conquest, managed to remain free, or was somewhat of an influential individual; for these powerful men, the restrictions would mostly be not being able to live accordingly to the Catholic faith in its entirety, and maybe having to be deprived of some Sacraments, also being seen as an inferior human or beast, aside from this life should be relatively normal. For the others, however, it could be much different; ruination for not being able to pay the non-Muslim taxes, being subject to bad treatment, maybe forceful precarious living conditions, being subject to raids and abductions.... It all varies depending on where and what time you're on, but it was definitely not pleasant I can assure you.
However, I imagine the worst part would be being deprived of a truly Catholic life, having to receive the Sacraments in a manner similar to the times of the Catacombs, if you could receive them at all. That, and also knowing that you are living under the overlords who cause so much pain and suffering to your Christians brothers abroad, on areas they are currently conquerin. If you want an account of just how horrific these conquests could be, I remember reading in a book by Marc Bloch ("A Sociedade Feudal" which should translate to "Feudal Society") of one Muslim warlord who estabilished himself in a fortified abbey on the mountains of South Italy, he took numerous nuns as prisoners, and every day would violate one of them on top of the altar, before decapitating her. I hate recounting this story, and am doing it here merely to inform you; I'm sorry for not pointing you to the exact page or giving any specific names, but I really want to think as little as possible about this event, if you are interested though, I'm sure you'll be able to find it in the book (it's in the beggining if I'm not mistaken), this is a classical and most libraries should have it.
Anyways, I hope this helped
very helpful, thanks for taking the time to write. In hindsight, I think it may have been naive of me to think that all Christians in the Levant would be treated similarly in all areas. I have read up on Dhhimitude but I imagined that paying a tax might be the least of their concerns. Had conditions worsened to a great degree in around 1090? or was it just the plea from Constantinople that triggered the Pope to call the first Crusade?
You are very welcome; just to complete the previous thought, even the influential Christians would have no guarantees of decent living, since after a while there weren't any influential Christians left in the region... I'm not sure how the situation was at the time of the first Crusade, but after the Christians lost their holdings in the Holy Land, Christianity pretty much disappeared from the region. The number of Christians from then up until (arguably) this day was reduced in a manner similar to what happened after Tokugawa's implantation of the Shogunate in Japan.
As for the reasons, aside from the danger of progressive Muslim encroachement on Christendom (which the Byzantines standed in the way of, doing basically what the Hungarians, Polish, and Eastern European Christians would do after its fall), and the great hardship Christians endured; around the time of the first Crusade the Muslims started to severely limit/block the pilgrimage paths to the Holy Land. Pilgrimages were a very big part of people's lives during most of the Middle Ages (it would be somewhat comparable to how most people travel on vacations nowadays, every now and then); just so you have an idea, I remember reading accounts of constant traffic in some of the roads, depending on the path you took there would literally always be dozens of unknown pilgrims next to you going the same path. All period sources that describe in some way medieval life mention the pilgrimages (Christine de Pizan's "The Book of the City of Ladies" and "The Treasure of the City of Ladies", and the Anonymous "Le Ménagier de Paris" are the two that jump to my mind as mentioning them extensively), it was literally a part of everyone's life, from serf to king. Around the end of the XI century, the Muslim rulers of the Holy Land (I believe it was the Fatimid Caliphate at this time, but I'm not sure) made it unprecendetely difficult for pilgrims to reach the Holy Land - the ultimate stage of a process that had started a long time ago -, they would at the very least be forced to return home when they reached Muslim lands, but usually they were actually robbed and enslaved/killed by patrols (Ramón Llull actually provides many descriptions of these events, though in a much later period, in the XIII century). Still, pilgramages were core to Christian life then, and people continued making the perilous voyages anyways; the need to protect these pilgrims was the final straw that triggered a large scale military mobilization of Christendom.
I can't stress the importance of the pilgrimages enough, many military orders had a very strict relation to this practice, the Templars and the Hospitallers are the two most famous examples of orders whose main aim at its creation was protecting the pilgrims, but even in Spain you can find examples of orders that kept the way to Santiago de Compostela safe (it was arguably on par with the Holy Land as pilgrimage destination in terms of popularity). Many Crusades were themselves pilgrimages in a way, being accompanied by huge masses of civilians that went on pilgrimage enjoying the direct protection of the Crusaders; Régine Pernoud actually has some good accounts of this in her book "A Mulher no Tempo das Cruzadas" (which should translate to "Women in the Age of the Crusades), she describes how it was not uncommon for Ladies to accompany their Lords when they went to the Holy Land on Crusade, the men went to help in the fighting, while the women took the opportunity to make a pilgrimage under a safe escort, and also to be close to their husbands. She even shows some accounts of how female dresses, perfumery, and stuff like this loaded the Crusader wagons on their trips, it's really a very interesting read.
I'm sorry for not providing you with more sources, citations, and exact names of places and people; this kind of loose recounting of history that I am doing really bothers me, but the pre-Crusade Holy Land is not really my area of expertise, so I have limited information to share. If you're interested, however, I can give you a copy of a list of books I have compiled about medieval history; with all the misinformation about this period, it is very hard to find decent works about it, so I collected the names of any author or book I found to be relatively credible in a word document, and use it to direct my own studies when needed. It is in Portuguese, but if you find it interesting I can start translating it for you, and should be done in about three weeks (it's big and I have a lot of things to do, so it will take me a while).
Here is the link, tell me if you wish me to start translating it: docs.google.com/document/d/1IhH2j4N7iYy9ApTNLky-711Mc_SiYFwROUpzdbI0A2A/edit?usp=sharing
one more thought, if you'd like to have a game of chess, let me know.....
Rafael de Rezende great post, one of the best ive seen on youtube to be honest. I also wanted to throw in that the early muslim rulers actually relied a lot on the non-muslim taxes to fund their military too
Great video I love top list videos
That cute cat tho
I actually have the title of malta knight,im trying to learn more about their story.
BaronAtWar300
How did you earn it? Just curious.
@@lenny_1369 from ancestors
You don’t inherit Maltese chivalric titles. Only the original knight can use it
Thanks, this is really good
That was a good summary. Missing out on the time of Napoleon and up to modern but good nonetheless.
Early EMS
Was that you singing the intro?
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D. E. U. S.
V. U. L. T
A video about the assassins would be good
Waffles Silver get a life
I'm pretty sure you're joking but just in case you're not; the "assassin brotherhood" never existed. It's a fantasy made up by ubisofts Assassins Creed.
Still a fun game though.
I think he means man of the mountains Hassan
@@hazardous0887 Look up the Feyadeen.
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The Assassins actually existed. Just not on such a large scale or with big plans or edgy quotes like in Assassin’s Creed.
What would be different if you got some more monthly donations? More uploads? Better video quality?
All of the above.
Thank you.
Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum
Best order
Very interesting.
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You really need to convert to the Eastern Orthodox Church...or at least attend a Byzantine rite church
What? They are Catholics and still are...
Cristeros were catholic mexican warriors, why you promote Eastern Orthodox Church?
For me Christianity is one whole belief, I don't really believe in the tradition of Catholics or orthodox because what it means to be Christian is the belief of Christ and his teachings which should be followed by Christians, but I respect their tradition tho.
I just hope more Christians follow their beliefs without dogma, I suggest Ravi Zachariah's books if you guys want to know more about the Christian philosophy and the belief of God.