Identifier: gri_33125008050011 (find matches)
Title: Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Civilization, Medieval Civilization, Renaissance Costume Military art and science Christian life
Publisher: London : Bickers & Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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an his orders. His three sons, the Counts of Toulouse, of Champagne,and of Flanders, took up the cross, as well as his brother, Charles of Anjou,who had recently been raised to the throne of Sicily, and many other princesof the royal house of France. The preparations for the crusade required three years, during whichSt. Louis, in the hope of persuading every Christian state to send its troops THE CRUSADES. against the infidels, did his best, but without success, to put an end to thepolitical quarrels that divided kings from their subjects. He embarked, in1270, with his sons and his principal nobles, for Sardinia, which had beenfixed upon as the rendezvous of the Crusaders. On his arrival there itwas decided that Tunis should be attacked first. A French chroniclermentions that the king had been given to understand that Tunis affordedgreat assistance to the Saltan of Cairo, which was very injurious to the HolyLand, and the barons believed that if that root of evil, the city of Tuni<,
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Fig. 111.—Disembarkation of St. Louis at Carthage.—Fac-simile of a Woodcut in the Passaigesdoultreiner: small folio, Paris, 1518. were destroyed, it would be of much advantage to Christendom. Otherchroniclers, on the contrary, and amongst them Matthew Paris, give a moreplausible motive for the expedition, viz., that the king had heard that theMoorish sovereign of that part of the coast had shown a disposition to embraceChristianity and join the western powers in their attempt to conquer Egypt. However that may have been, the crusading fleet sailed for Tunis, carry-ing an army sadly tried by sickness, and whose ardour had already strangelybegun to cool. The Moors permitted the Christians, almost unopposed, todisembark and take possession of Carthage (Fig. Ill), which had dwindled THE CRUSADES. down to a mere village. Some of the Crusaders housed themselves in theruins of the ancient Carthaginian city, the remainder bivouacked under theburning sun of Africa, surrounded and harassed

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