The old halls, manors and families of Derbyshire Volume 2 - Brossura

Tilley, Joseph

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1231006862 ISBN 13: 9781231006863

Casa editrice: RareBooksClub.com, 2012

Riassunto

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...they were recognised by Pope Paschall II., when they became militant defenders of the cross. They had their councils, their knights chaplains, their knights of justice. They defeated the Moslem corsairs on sea and the Turkish hordes on land. How they defended Rhodes and retreated to Crete; how they were given Malta by Charles V., and defended it against Dragut, the famous Turkish commander, whom they slew with twenty-five thousand of his men; and how they were demolished, in 1798, by Napoleon, should be read by the student in Porter's Knights of Malta, published in 1883. Simultaneously with the Hospitallers arose the celebrated Order of the Knights Templars. This Order was, perchance, the most powerful of the Middle Ages for a little while, for their purpose captivated all classes, and hence arose their wealth and their splendour, and the desire on the part of everyone who could not take their vows to be enrolled as affiliated members. Their possessions showered upon them, and for two hundred years there is a record of their deeds of valour and magnificence, and then Clement V. snuffed them out, or, perchance, they would have shaken the Papacy long before it was shaken, and by quite a different mode. The Order arose at Jerusalem with nine French Knights, who set themselves to protect the holy sepulchre and the worshippers. Baldwin II. gave them an apartment in his palace near to the Temple, which occasioned them to be called "The poor soldiers of the Temple." They were soon an organised body, which spread over Europe, with the distinguishing habit of white worn over their armour, bearing the red cross of eight points on the left shoulder, with their badge of Agnus Dei; their banner, per fess sable and argent, and their war cry of "Beau Seant....

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• Editore: RareBooksClub.com
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1231006862
• ISBN 13: 9781231006863
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 124