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Renaissance #198 – Godfrey of Bouillon (The Crusades part 7)
Godfrey of Bouillon, the Duke of Lower Lorraine, who had managed to blackmail the Jews into giving him a shit ton of money, was not so easily convinced…
Renaissance #197 – The Prince's Crusade (The Crusades part 6)
The failure of the People's Crusade didn't stop the overall appetite in Europe for pillaging the Holy Land. They still had the Prince's Crusade. A bunch of rich…
Renaissance #196 – Not By Faith Alone (The Crusades part 5)
Peter's other crusaders, not so keen on Jewish jabby jabby, headed to Constantinople for a chat with the Byzantine Emperor. Then they swung by Nicaea, famous for that…
Renaissance #195 – The Holy Goose and the Holy Goat (The Crusades part 4)
At the end of April in 1096, a priest by the name of Volkmar, a monk called Gottschalk, and an army from the Rhineland led by a Count…