Knights of the Order of the Holy Spirit embarking for the Crusades. Crusaders prepare to board ships decorated with coats of arms of the Pope, the Emperor, France, England, Anjou-Sicily, etc. After a miniature in the 14th century manuscript Statuts de l’ordre du Saint-Esprit de Naples. Embarquement des chevaliers du Saint-Esprit pour la croisade. Chromolithograph by Felix Elie Regamey from Paul Lacroix’s La Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a l’Epoque de la Renaissance, Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Paris, 1873.

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