Heroines of the Crusades
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Celestia Angenette Bloss. Heroines of the Crusades
PREFACE
ADELA
CHAPTER I. THE NIGHT OF THE 20TH OF MARCH, 1067
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
ELEANOR
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
BERENGARIA OF NAVARRE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI. SELECTED FROM THE CHRONICLE OF VINSAUF, 1191
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
ISABELLA
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
VIOLANTE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
ELEANORA
CHAPTER I. THE PARENTS OF EDWARD I
CHAPTER II. DE JOINVILLE’S STORY OF THE SEVENTH CRUSADE
CHAPTER III. THE RELICS BROUGHT FROM CONSTANTINOPLE
CHAPTER IV. THE ESCAPE
CHAPTER V. THE DETERMINATION
CHAPTER VI. THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII. THE CORONATION
CHAPTER IX. CONQUEST OF WALES
CHAPTER X. THE ASTRONOMER AND THE JEW
CHAPTER XI. THE JEWESS
CHAPTER XII. THE FATE OF THE HOUSE OF SUABIA
CHAPTER XIII. TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE
CHAPTER XIV. AN ACCIDENT
CHAPTER XV. FREDERIC THE BITTEN
CHAPTER XVI. LETTER FROM PROCIDA TO DON PEDRO, KING OF ARRAGON
NOTES
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All night long the Lady Matilda, with her becoming children, knelt before the holy shrine in the old Abbey of Feschamp.
Anxiously had they watched through the lingering twilight, for the whitening sails of the Conqueror’s fleet. No sails appeared, and the night fell dark and stormy upon the English channel. Meet was it that prayer should ascend to Him who rules the destiny of nations, for the hopes of all future times were rocked upon that midnight sea. The field of Hastings was won, Harold was slain, England was subdued, and the ships of William the Conqueror, filled with the flower of Norman chivalry, and followed by the sad remnant of Saxon nobles, were speeding to the Norman coast.
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“Father, I would confess.”
And the young countess, in all her beauty and pride, knelt at the feet of the venerable man, and with the simplicity of a child, poured out her soul before him.
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