A popular history of France : from the earliest times . res of their most valiant and most powerful successors,an impossibility. Nevertheless, repeated efforts and glory, and even victories,were not then, and were not to be still later, unknown amongstthe Christians in their struggle against the Mussulmans for thepossession of the Holy Land. In the space of a hundred andseventy-one years from the coronation of Godfrey de Bouillonas king of Jerusalem, in 1099, to the death of St. Louis, wear-ing the cross before Tunis, in 1270, seven grand crusades wereundertaken with the same design by the gre
A popular history of France : from the earliest times . res of their most valiant and most powerful successors,an impossibility. Nevertheless, repeated efforts and glory, and even victories,were not then, and were not to be still later, unknown amongstthe Christians in their struggle against the Mussulmans for thepossession of the Holy Land. In the space of a hundred andseventy-one years from the coronation of Godfrey de Bouillonas king of Jerusalem, in 1099, to the death of St. Louis, wear-ing the cross before Tunis, in 1270, seven grand crusades wereundertaken with the same design by the greatest sovereignsof Christian Europe; the Kings of France and England, theEmperors of Germany, the King of Denmark, and princesof Italy successively engaged therein. And they all were neither right nor desirable to make long pause over therecital of their attempts and their reverses, for it is the historyof France, and not a general history of the crusades, which is. RICHARDS FAREWELL TO THE HOLY LAND.—Page 10. Chap. XVII.] DECLINE AND END OF THE CRUSADES. 11 here related; but it was in France, by the French people, andunder French chiefs, that the crusades were begun ; and it waswith St. Louis, dying before Tunis beneath the banner of thecross, that they came to an end. They received in the historyof Europe the glorious name of Gesta Dei per Francos (6Wsworks by French hands) ; and they have a right to keep, in thehistory of France, the place they really occupied. During a reign of twenty-nine years, Louis VI., called theFat, son of Philip I., did not trouble himself about the Eastor the crusades, at that time in all their fame and rather a man of sense than an enthusiast in the causeeither of piety or glory, he gave all his attention to the estab-lishment of some order, justice, and royal authority in his asyet far from extensive kingdom. A tragic incident, however,gave the crusade chief place in the thoughts and life of his son,L
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