. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. rtydays of trial, of suffering, and of danger. Though a captive in the hands ofthe unbelievers, subjected to the grossest outrages, loaded with chains, andthreatened with death, he still displayed in the gentleness of his dispositionand the serenity of his soul the high virtues of the Christian faith and thenobility pertaining to his kingly dignity. The Saracens greatly admired thismagnanimity in misfortune, and their principal leader, the terrible Sultan of 128 THE CRUSADES. Damascus, entered into negotiati
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. rtydays of trial, of suffering, and of danger. Though a captive in the hands ofthe unbelievers, subjected to the grossest outrages, loaded with chains, andthreatened with death, he still displayed in the gentleness of his dispositionand the serenity of his soul the high virtues of the Christian faith and thenobility pertaining to his kingly dignity. The Saracens greatly admired thismagnanimity in misfortune, and their principal leader, the terrible Sultan of 128 THE CRUSADES. Damascus, entered into negotiations with, his august prisoner, who was pre-pared to die rather than submit to some of the demands of his million of golden besants (about half a million of French livres) for theransom of the Franks, the restitution of Damietta for that of their king, andten years truce between the Christians and the Mussulmans of Egypt andof Syria, were the conditions that Louis was obliged to accept. Joinvilletells us that the emirs of the sultan were content to accept, as their only. Fig. 108.—St. Louis and his two brothers, Alphonse, Count of Poitiers, and Charles, Count ofAnjou, made prisoners by the Saracens.—Fac-simile of a Woodcut in the Grand Voyage deHierusalem, printed in Paris by Francois Eegnault in 1522; folio. Library of M. Ambr,Firmin-Didot. guarantee, the bare word of this Frankish prince, the noblest Christian, theysaid, they had ever seen in the East. Some of the Saracens, indeed, accord-ing to the same chronicler, had conceived the intention of offering the throneof Egypt to King Louis (Fig. 109), so much respect and esteem had heinspired them with. Louis having recovered his liberty, would not return to France withouthaving tried every means in his power to alleviate the miseries of Palestine,or at least to deliver the Christian prisoners whom the infidels still detained. THE CRUSADES. He went, with seven hundred knights who still remained under his orders,
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