Crusades/Specl. Atten: Joseph E. de Vicq

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Rick Eaton

Crusades/Specl. Atten: Joseph E. de Vicq

Legg inn av Rick Eaton » 23 feb 2005 22:20:03

I have been slowly building a personal library of quality English history
volumes to better understand the periods and people I am researching from
the early 1600s back to before the Conquest. The famed English Monarch
Series is the cornerstone of my small collection.

You have asked for information about the crusades. Much of note has been
published and a good google or Yahoo search should give you better answers
than I can here. However...

Two volumes that I have are (A) from the essential Yale (And UCLA publuished
a volume or two as well) English Monarch Series, "Richard I, by John
Gillingham, Yale university press, new haven, CT ISBM No. 0-300-07912-5; and
(B) perhaps of most value to you, The Crusades" (second edition) by Hans
Eberhard Meyer, Oxford University press, ISBM No 0-19-873097-7 for the
paperback edition.

Both of these should be available through your library and are definitely
available from the publishers or book sellers.

Hundreds of knights and others were companions of kings and other leading
crusaders and may not be mentioned by name in any publication. What I have
found is that my research has had to focus on the nobility with whom my
ancestors were associated. This for example, took me to the Third Crusade
and a search for my ancestor who, researchers, local history, and published
authors say accompanied King Richard I. I have not found any other record of
that personally and it is one of the items I am continuously researching.
While a lord of several manors, most certainly he would have served under
his earl or a higher ranking person such as a baron, etc.

The point here is that you may have to 'zoom out" before you can zoom in.
This is where reading can be helpful and your research may have to become
quite broad before, and if, you strick gold.

Other more experienced researchers may give other advice (I would much like
to hear it myself) and may even contradict what I have said. Untrained at
what I am doing, I have had to find my own paths. They are long and almost
never give up SPECIFIC information for which I am searching. However, as
suggested above, so much can be found when one knows the associates of the
ancestor.

What details of your ancester do you have. Send them to me and I will scan
what I have to see if there is any reference. Also, do you know where he was
located and what baron or earl to which he owed or pledged service. Often,
when it came to battle, the Aearls would call on his knifghts (usually
significant property owners) to provide service even when they 9the
nobility) did not personally participate.

Give me as much information as you can and I'll see if I have anything to
help.

Rick Eaton

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