The Boy Crusaders: A Story of the Days of Louis IX.
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Edgar John George. The Boy Crusaders: A Story of the Days of Louis IX.
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. A FEUDAL CASTLE
CHAPTER II. THE BROTHERS-IN-ARMS
CHAPTER III. THE HEIRS OF THE ESPECS
CHAPTER IV. ST. LOUIS
CHAPTER V. TAKING THE CROSS
CHAPTER VI. EMBARKING FOR THE EAST
CHAPTER VII. THE ARMED PILGRIMS AT CYPRUS
CHAPTER VIII. EASTWARD
CHAPTER IX. AN ADVENTURE
CHAPTER X. ON THE LADDER OF LIFE
CHAPTER XI. THE VOYAGE
CHAPTER XII. AT DAMIETTA
CHAPTER XIII. INCURSIONS
CHAPTER XIV. A RENEGADE
CHAPTER XV. CAPTURE OF A CARAVAN
CHAPTER XVI. A COUNCIL OF WAR
CHAPTER XVII. FACE TO FACE
CHAPTER XVIII. DELAY AND DANGER
CHAPTER XIX. THE CAPTIVE
CHAPTER XX. PASSING THE ACHMOUN
CHAPTER XXI. THE CARNAGE OF MANSOURAH
CHAPTER XXII. THE BATTLE
CHAPTER XXIII. HOW JOINVILLE KEPT THE BRIDGE
CHAPTER XXIV. THE FIRST FRIDAY IN LENT
CHAPTER XXV. MORTIFICATIONS AND MISERIES
CHAPTER XXVI. THE MASSACRE OF MINIEH
CHAPTER XXVII. JOINVILLE IN PERIL
CHAPTER XXVIII. NEWS OF DISASTER
CHAPTER XXIX. A WOUNDED PILGRIM
CHAPTER XXX. ST. LOUIS IN CHAINS
CHAPTER XXXI. THE TRAGEDY OF PHARESCOUR
CHAPTER XXXII. PERILS AND SUSPENSE
CHAPTER XXXIII. ACRE
CHAPTER XXXIV. A RESCUE
CHAPTER XXXV. MISSION TO BAGDAD
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE LAST OF THE CALIPHS
CHAPTER XXXVII. A RECOGNITION
CHAPTER XXXVIII. WOE TO THE CALIPH
CHAPTER XXXIX. IN THE LION'S MOUTH
CHAPTER XL. END OF THE ARMED PILGRIMAGE
CHAPTER XLI. A SUDDEN DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XLII. HOMEWARD BOUND
CHAPTER XLIII. A ROYAL VISIT
CHAPTER XLIV. THE FEAST OF KINGS
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IT was the age of chain armour and tournaments – of iron barons and barons' wars – of pilgrims and armed pilgrimages – of forests and forest outlaws – when Henry III. reigned as King of England, and the feudal system, though no longer rampant, was still full of life and energy; when Louis King of France, afterwards canonised as St. Louis, undertook one of the last and most celebrated of those expeditions known as the Crusades, and described as 'feudalism's great adventure, and popular glory.'
At the time when Henry was King of England and when Louis of France was about to embark for the East, with the object of rescuing the Holy Sepulchre from the Saracens, there stood on the very verge of Northumberland a strong baronial edifice, known as the Castle of Wark, occupying a circular eminence, visible from a great distance, and commanding such an extensive view to the north as seemed to ensure the garrison against any sudden inroad on the part of the restless and refractory Scots. On the north the foundations were washed by the waters of the Tweed, here broad and deep; and on the south were a little town, which had risen under the protection of the castle, and, – stretching away towards the hills of Cheviot, – an extensive park or chase, abounding with wild cattle and deer and beasts of game. At an earlier period this castle had been a possession of the famous house of Espec; and, when in after days it came into the hands of the Montacute Earls of Salisbury, Edward III. was inspired within its walls with that romantic admiration of the Countess of Salisbury which resulted in the institution of the Order of the Garter. During the fifth decade of the thirteenth century, however, it was the chief seat of Robert, Lord de Roos, a powerful Anglo-Norman noble, whose father had been one of the barons of Runnymede and one of the conservators of the Great Charter.
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'Oh,' replied they, 'you seem not to know how it has been prophesied that this year the drought will be very great, that the sun will dissipate all the waters, and that the abysses of the sea will be dry; and that an easy road will lie open to us across the bed of the Mediterranean.'
On reaching Marseilles, however, the young pilgrims discovered that they had been deluded. Some of them returned to their homes; but the majority were not so fortunate. Many lost themselves in the forests which then covered the country, and died of hunger and fatigue; and the others became objects of speculation to two merchants of Marseilles, who carried on trade with the Saracens. Affecting to act from motives of piety, the two merchants tempted the boy-pilgrims by offering to convey them, without charge, to the Holy Land; and, the offer having been joyfully accepted, seven vessels, with children on board, sailed from Marseilles. But the voyage was not prosperous. At the end of two days, when the ships were off the isle of St. Peter, near the rock of the Recluse, a tempest arose, and the wind blew so violently that two of them went down with all on board. The five others, however, weathered the storm, and reached Bugia and Alexandria. And now the young Crusaders discovered to their consternation how they had been deceived and betrayed. Without delay they were sold by the merchants to the slave-dealers, and by the slave-dealers to the Saracens. Forty of them were purchased for the caliph and carried to Bagdad, where they were forced to abjure Christianity, and brought up as slaves.
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