. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. essels were bought, hired, and chartered, but in the latter casethey were usually only employed as transports. The merchants of Genoaand Venice were in this manner the principal charterers for the 1246, Saint Louis addressed a demand to them for ships, at the sametime making a similar request to the merchants of Marseilles. Emissariesfrom the king were sent into Provence and Italy to make contracts forthe construction and chartering of vessels for the transport of the armed NAVAL MATTERS. 8-7 pi
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. essels were bought, hired, and chartered, but in the latter casethey were usually only employed as transports. The merchants of Genoaand Venice were in this manner the principal charterers for the 1246, Saint Louis addressed a demand to them for ships, at the sametime making a similar request to the merchants of Marseilles. Emissariesfrom the king were sent into Provence and Italy to make contracts forthe construction and chartering of vessels for the transport of the armed NAVAL MATTERS. 8-7 pilgrims who were to accompany him to the Holy Land. These envoys,amongst whom was Brother Andrew, the prior of the holy house ofJerusalem, made the necessary arrangements with the podestate of Genoa,with the Duke of Venice, and with the syndicate of the commune ofMarseilles, and settled the size of the ships, the number of their crew, thespace reserved for each passenger and each horse, and the different tariffsfor the berths in the fore and aft towers, for those in the main saloons. Fig. 81.—View of the Port of Antwerp in 1520.—Fac-simile of a Drawing by Albert Diirer,in the Gallery of the Archduke Albert, at Vienna. (termed paradis), for those between decks, and for those under the lowerdeck. In 1263 the arrangements for St. Louiss second crusade were carried outin a similar manner. Genoese vessels reappear in the army of the sea prepared in the yearof grace 1295 by Philippe le Bel against Edward I. of England; in thefleet equipped in 1337 by Philippe de Valois against Edward III. ; and inthe splendid flotilla lost by Nicholas Behuchet, a French admiral, at lEclusein 1340. Two centuries later the Genoese again contributed ten caracks to NAVAL MATTERS. the armada prepared by the order of Francis I. on the coast of Normandy,though most of them unfortunately foundered at the mouth of the Seinethrough the ignorance of their pilots. History also informs us that AndrewDoria (Fig
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