Today's installment concludes Louis IX Leads The Last Crusade,our selection from History of the Crusades by Joseph François Michaud published in
The Last Crusaders Embark
The fleet set sail on the 4th of July, 1270, and in a few days arrived in the road of Cagliari. Here the council of the counts and barons was
The Last Crusaders Gather
As religious enthusiasm was not sufficiently strong to make men forget their worldly interests, many nobles who had taken the cross entertained great
Louis IX Leads The Last Crusade
IntroductionLouis IX, King of France, 1226-1270, was at once a monarch of great ability and a man of intense religious spirit. Naturally, in such a