A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2

CHAPTER XVII.THE CRUSADES, THEIR DECLINE AND END. CHAPTER XVIII.THE KINGSHIP IN FRANCE. CHAPTER XIX.THE COMMUNES AND THE THIRD ESTATE. CHAPTER XX.THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR.PHILIP VI. AND JOHN II. CHAPTER XXI.THE STATESGENERAL OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY. CHAPTER XXII.THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR.CHARLES V. In the month of August, 1099, the Crusade, to judge by appearances, had attained its object. Jerusalem was in the hands of the Christians, and they had set up in it a king, the most pious and most disinterested of the crusaders. Close to this ancient kingdom were growing up likewise, in the two chief cities of Syria and Mesopotamia, Antioch and Edessa, two Christian principalities, in the possession of two crusader-chiefs, Bohemond and Baldwin. A third Christian principality was on the point of getting founded at the foot of Libanus, at Tripolis, for the advantage of another crusader, Bertrand, eldest son of Count Raymond of Toulouse. The conquest of Syria and Palestine seemed accomplished, in the name of the faith, and by the armies of Christian Europe; and the conquerors calculated so surely upon their fixture that, during his reign, short as it was (for he was elected king July 23, 1099, and died July 18, 1100, aged only forty years), Godfrey de Bouillon caused to be drawn up and published, under the title of Assizes of Jerusalem, a code of laws, which transferred to Asia the customs and traditions of the feudal system, just as they existed in France at the moment of his departure for the Holy Land. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 11952
Author: Guizot, François
Release Date: Apr 1, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Neuville, Alphonse Marie de, 1835-1885
Translator: Black, Robert, 1830?-1915