City Minutes: Crusader States
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- Crusading is one thing, but holding your new kingdoms is a much trickier business. See how the many Christian states of "Outremer" rolled with the punches to evolve in form and function over multiple centuries.
SOURCES & Further Reading: Great Courses lectures "Church of the Holy Sepulchre" from "The World's Greatest Churches" by William R. Cook, and "The Sultan and Venice: War in the Mediterranean" from "The Ottoman Empire" by Kenneth W. Harl, "The Siege of Acre 1189-1191" & "The Siege of Acre 1291" from World History Encyclopedia www.worldhistory.org/article/... & www.worldhistory.org/article/..., Britannica History of Cyprus www.britannica.com/place/Cypr..., "Gothic Architecture in Cyprus" dom.com.cy/en/live/blog/cypru..., Britannica History of Malta www.britannica.com/place/Malt..., Rick Steves Europe: "The Holy Land" & "Cruising the Mediterranean"
Special thanks to our community member Jeremiah, who lent their expertise and kindly assisted in improving my script from its initial draft.
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - 1:03 Jerusalem
1:04 - 2:08 Acre
2:09 - 3:11 Cyprus
3:12 - 4:10 Malta
4:11 - 5:18 Conclusion
Music: "Pippin the Hunchback" by Kevin MacLeod
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There is a pretty hilarious account of a Muslim ambassador meeting with one of the Crusader states in the midst of one of the Crusades, during which he was basically yelled at by one of the newly arrived Crusaders until the Levant-born Catholic lords ejected the rabble-rouser from the room and apologized to the ambassador, basically rolling their eyes and saying, "Crusaders, amiright?"
My own favourite story is that in a later Crusade, King Charles was going through France to board the ships when he saw a priest being escorted to jail. Turned out the priest had been robbed and, rather than turning the other cheek, chased down the thief and beat him to death.
Charles recruited the guy on the spot.
0:23 THE EVER BRILLIANT GOLDMASK.
@@paulgibbon5991 Paladin sighted
The Crusader States residents were more progressive than their main land counterparts,
@@KarmaSpaz12 Idk who dat, but there is a caped crusader I recognize on the top right of that timestamp
It's weird to think about how these precarious temporary occupations lasted as long as Alaskan statehood or even as long as the existence of the United States. Families settled and lived for generations in this little blip of history.
"Families settled and lived for generations in this little blip of history."
I like how this statement applies no matter what period of time you're talking about.
@@CoralCopperHead But, given the context, it's much more unique when you think about it.
Name a small island just about anywhere. Sure, they might have their own nation and people but those people have always been there. Their lineage likely envelopes the history of that nation or maybe even before it because, typically, people only really leave them.
That's not the case in states like this. They came there out of necessity and stayed as a duty, adopting some foreign land as a home and staying with their families for so long while simultaneously flying under the radar of history, compared to the colonial Americas and with an even older historical base too.
@@CoralCopperHead looks to pre 1300 new Zealand.
Welcome to the cosmic horror that is the passage of time and the true age of everything. Please enjoy your stay, as it won't last long.
@@Stargazeer The real cosmic horror is realizing the impossibly fast pace and large scale of industrialization.
It's both hilarious and depressing that the Crusader States were living on a prayer for the entirety of their existence.
And also very appropriate
Cue Bon Jovi
A fellow crusader
@@AbbeyRoadkill1
... we gotta hold on to what we got...
@@lukeh2556 It doesn't make a difference if we make or not
"Gentlemen, i assure you, Deus does NOT vult" is honestly one of the best background jokes i've ever seen on this channel. Cause it's so funny, but so true as well.
I was just about to start an essay on the Crusades and the aftermath, and this video popped up! Thanks so much Blue!
Use the provided sources in the description, not this video as a source. Your essay will be infinitely more credible.
That's not to insult Blue, it's just good academic practice. Not to mention the countless details he couldn't fit into this video, even if he wanted to.
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Could you say it’s gods will?
@@danb9460 deus vult?
Deus does not Vult... e.e
I wish you'd mentioned the time Venetians and Genoans got into a street fight in Acre, which then escalated into a multi-year all out war that forced the crusader factions to pick sides and left Acre in ruins.
That is entirely on-brand for Venice and Genoa, and I really wish I could be a fly on the wall to watch it unfold.
@@fionagibson7529 forgot to even mention the Pisans were there too, always switching sides to support whoever had the upper hand and eventually getting to loot and pillage both their rival quarters.
I live not far from there. As a history nerd every time the news talk about mess in Acre I think "ah, yes, the cycle of tradition repeats"
Fun fact: La Valetta was contructed right after the failed invasion of Malta and was named in honor of the Grand Master of the Hospitallers
actually the ottomans almost won we still don't understand why they just left maybe they got their money
@@starcapture3040 they lost a lot a of troops and there were reinforcements from Italy and Spain coming to help, losing so much troops to gain nothing must be devastating for the morale of the troops
@@MiguelSanchezDelVillar it was more over expedition for the ottomans then total war they still kept carthage and Tripoli which the spanish wanted to take
I guess you can say that...it was the first Hospital.
*ba dum tsh*
@@starcapture3040 The Sicilians and/or Spanish eventually sent aid, and that was the straw that broke the camel’s back, considering it had been quite a costly siege for the Ottomans up till this point, with Dragut being among the 25,000-30,000 plus ottoman casualties.
The cool thing about the Hospitallers is that they STILL EXIST. They're just called the St. John Ambulance now. It's amazing to know that such an organization founded a thousand years ago in the first crusade is still going strong in modern times.
and not only do they still exist there are still subgroups that still take up arms and work as combat medics
You know, the Templars are cool and all, but my God are the Hospitaliers underrated. Those guys were the ultimate thorn in the LITERAL side of an entire enemy Empire, performing lighting raids and attacking Their ships enought to make the Vikings shed a tear, got pushed out of Their bases of operations about three? Maybe four times or more? And kept going only to then Inflict a great defeat on Their sworn enemies at Crete, thus averting muslim Expansion on the italian peninsula and possibly on Rome itself, kept going with Their pirate-y Shenanigans for years to come, and eventually Fought against and carried out guerrillas against The Bloody Nazis in WW2. Granted, they are splintered into innumerable sub-orders nowadays (including the Sovereign Military order of Malta), but still. That's quite the track record!
As a side note, a Little disappointed you didn't even mention the siege of Candia, but the video wasn't about Venice so It makes sense
Ottomans: Please just give up this is exhausting.
Knights Hospitallers: Haha pirates life for me
If I’m remembering correctly weren’t they primarily a order of doctors/healers
@@Linki8uu They still are. Fun current events fact, one of the sub-orders is officially bearing arms again, functioning as combat medics in Ukraine.
@@TheZombieOfDrake i didn’t know that thanks for the information I also was unaware until I read your comment that they were still around Malta I kinda knew about but not the others
@Jesse Drake could give me the name of that sub-order, i kinda want to look into it
Hey Blue can I recommend Athenaeus of Naucratis for a history maker video? He accidentally preserved hundreds of fragments of lost Classical and Hellenistic texts. He is a good gateway into fragmentary history and the second sophistic
How does one accidentally preserve stuff?
Wait, that's exactly why you're right and we need a video
@@mirjanbouma Imagine that you write a book about being at a dinner party talking about food and showing off to your friends about how well read you are by quoting a ton of books, most of which are reasonably available even if some are starting to fall out of circulation. Then your entire world falls apart over the course of several centuries, lots of those books you've been quoting are either partially or completely lost as they stop being copied, but your book somehow survives. You didn't necessarily intend to be a important source for a time period (the hellenistic) which has become underrepresented in the literary tradition you were writing a cook book with anecdotes, but you are now, and scholars have to deal with your idiosyncrasies as a writer. That is a very basic outline of how you accidentally become an important resource for scholars 1800 years after your untimely death
@@swordfish1929 I wonder why history is often preserved that way....maybe soem scribe thought that instead of copying dozens or hundreds of books, he could just copy one book that had thr cliffs notes versions of all the others
@@mirjanbouma Have you heard of Ea-Nasir? Not super relevant, but his house was found to be full of clay tablets containing complaints about his dishonest business practices, and we don't know for sure whether the tablets were preserved deliberately out of pettiness or due to a house fire or similar accidentally hardening them.
(Clay writing tablets of this kind were meant to have their contents smoothed away so they could be reused; firing one so it doesn't deform is like printing out an email moreso than holding onto a letter.)
@@blarg2429 I have heard of him! That's the one with the complaint about the quality of some delivered metal, isn't it?
As someone who is just starting their coursework in college and it's about the Crusades, this is so helpful!
Look into the sources provided in the description.
Fun fact: the Acre fortress walls are still around and have ironically themselves become a tourist location
In March 1098 CE, Baldwin of Boulogne took control of Edessa (modern Urfa, southeast Turkey) and the County of Edessa was formed, the first of the Crusader States. Although Baldwin had, in effect, usurped power from the ruling Christian Armenians, he did promote a mixing of Western and Armenian nobility through marriages, in particular, as a military shield to Antioch further to the west, even if its small army necessitated truces and alliances with its Muslim neighbours to survive.
Abbasid Caliphate: you can't defeat me
Crusader States: i know but he can
Mongol Empire
Mongol Empire: Gen
Christendom: Gen
Mongol Empire: Ghis
Christendom: Ghis
Mongol Empire: Khan
Christendom: Khan
Mongol Empire: Genghis Khan!
Christendom: Prester John!
Growing up in Jewish Day school, if you asked us what the Crusades were, we would have said they were pogroms in which the Christians mobs massacred Jews in the Rhineland. "Oh, and also they were fighting to take back the Holy Land from the Arabs or something." Even more so than the Jews who were slaughtered in the Holy Land itself, the reverberations of those Rhineland massacres are still felt. I was very confused when I was a bit older and first saw movies depicting Richard I as a Crusader "hero." Now as an adult I have learned all about it and visited many crusaders sights (including Akko/Acre) and find it all fascinating. History is always interesting when seen through the lens of different perspectives.
I think it’s important to talk about how 5 of the crusades were actually for Jerusalem, how they ended by making a treaty’s to allow the Abrahamic religions to live in peace, but of course were violated time after time. And that after the 3rd crusade, politicians used missions intended to liberate Christians for their own gain, and were eventually excommunicated. So many people just think of “lol da holy land”, but of course they don’t really care enough about history to look into this stuff.
violated by just christians?. why only talk bout the blame on christians? we know all religious people violated it.
@@profile1172 no, not violated by Christian’s actually. It was the Muslims who kept breaking these treaty’s, since they’re not big on infidels being in one of their holy lands.
@@wacopaco2099 well they let the jewish people live there the whole time...
@@wacopaco2099 yeah, even into the 1200s selling weapons to the crusader states seems like it was a very serious accusation to make. I think the only reason the crusader states lasted with influencal presence as long as they did was because the ayyubid sultanate 1 generation after salidin basically had ADHD and couldn't focus for 2 moments straight without internal bickering. Even the 7th crusade aimed at egypt couldn't get all ayyubid emirs in line.
Even salidins own rise to power was because one of the advisors got the crusaders in the middle of Fatimid conflicts. That was a big deal (overly oversimplified ofc).
So I think it's fairer to say that while they weren't constantly at each other's throats and had to be pragmatic. They were each other's "other" the enemy to point at and blame. It was never normalized.
But it is important to distinct that it wasn't a religious conflict either. Arabs very often referred to the crusaders as firinj (franks) few to no religious names were given to them by Arabs.
And we do know Arabs had no problem with christians and jews generally (nowhere near the European levels of problems at the time) so it was politics at play not religion
Thanks for including the Orthodox in your list of displaced people's. Despite being in the Holy Land since day one, they are frequently forgotten about for the sake of focusing on the Latin and Western narratives.
- A long time fan and practicing Orthodox Christian.
Christ is Risen brother! Merry Paschaltide!
While the Crusaders and Saracens were busy fighting in the Crusades, the Mongolian empire's rise to power under Genghis Khan took both armies by surprise unlike the former and the latter the Mongols weren't interested in religious conquest they were just interested in conquest in general.
But, in the end, invading the Levant turned out to be a bridge too far for the Mongols, who ended up getting slapped down by the Mamluks of Egypt.
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 They still sacked Baghdad and ended a Golden Era of Islam, taking enough knowledge with them for nearly all the Western Mongol states to eventually convert to Islam, which was a revolution bigger than when the Turks converted. Thus even if their initial aims weren’t religious, their successor states were indeed so as a side effect of invading the Levant. Would shape Eastern Europe for centuries to come.
Malta is so fascinating, the Maltese language is actually descended from Sicilian Arabic.
Oh is it? That's so interesting. Do you have ref I can read for that?
I understood that its origin was closer to Tunisian Arabic. But whatever its origin it evolved into a distinct language and is the only Semitic language to be written using the roman alphabet.
Maltese here, its thought that a raid by the Arabs in the 800s left the islands nearly empty which were subsequently re-settled by arabs from Sicily later on. Then the Normans came rolling in after they took sicily and isolated us from the arab world forever. The rural Maltese spoke this sicolo-arab dialect but the nobility and burghers would trade with Italy, and so spoke mostly Italian (or some dialect of it). Over the centuries these merged creating modern day Maltese which officially is about 60% semitic, 30% romance and 10% straight up loaned words from English or French. Our language is very important to us and questions surrounding it are attributed to be the founding blocks of modern Maltese society. If you want to read further into it wikipedia is generally a good starting point :)
@@Dave_Sisson yeah maybe, the further you get from Indo European languages, specifically the ones I speak (English, French and Punjabi) the less I know.
@@aidenwilliams6760 Nope it was inhabited by phoenicians and when the fatimids took it it adopted arabic fast since they spoke in similar language
Oh man, while I do enjoy longer videos a lot more, it’s so impressive how much history you can fit in a few minutes. The maps are impressive as usual and I‘m looking forward to more extensive videos in the future. I know you absolutely hate making maps of the mess that eventually became Germany, but there’s some really interesting history on how we did it if you ever want to go a tad bit north of your beloved Italy ;)
"Gentlemen, I assure you, Deus does not Vult"
I find it fascinating how these cultures interact, especially considering the shared religious roots!
its sad seeing how the 3 Abrahamic religions bicker so much though. When they manage to work together it makes so much interesting stuff
Considering it started with family drama (knocking up the servant, even with the wife’s permission, isn’t a smart choice in any circumstance) it’s not too hard to see why the three have had problems.
Love these little videos!
I genuinely love the dive into the history, thanks Blue.
I've actually been playing a CK3 game as the King of Jerusalem and its cool seeing this come out not long after!
I am actually playing as the grandson of Raymond of Tolouse and managed to do well enough to get the Kingdom rather than just Tripoli during the First Crusade
If you're not Jewish and creating Israel, what's the point?
Israeli Empire for the win!
@@cameronmeyferth753 I kinda wish they would add that back in for fun
I've been on the receiving end of CK3 crusades and they're SO easy to defeat. An alliance of dozen of christian kings with armies ten times my own will join the war, but they NEVER join forces with each other and always end up arriving in disorganized piecemeal fashion. And I'm like, okay, fair, historically accurate.
@@juanjuri6127 yeah I got lucky
@@juanjuri6127 the AI in that game is so stupid. I usually have to play cat and mouse with Caliphate death stacks and try and out maneuver them until I win. It's pretty difficult.
It's a fascinating period of history with a surprising amount of cooperation and diplomacy, and it's a real pity that it gets oversimplified so grossly to push thoroughly modern narratives about Christianity and Islam as eternal enemies. When for most of the history of the Crusader states, they.....weren't.
Yup people often forget that the Crusader States had to be practical in the Lavant to survive, so while for modern times they are very descriminatory for the time in Christendom they were progressive (they have to be to maintain a population who are mostly Non Catholic) ironically European Surfs had less rights than those in Outalramer who are Muslim.
Also Muslim writers at the time noted that they liked Outramerians better than mainland Europeans, though it has to be said that obviously religious tension was very high especially when it came to foreign relations, things aren't really going to look good when you took a place by force, though the Muslim world for a time focused more on each other than the Crusaders as they don't know what they are doing, until relations broke down. (the Crusaders can be very back stabby at times too or be forced to act aggresively when a Crusade is called)
@@forickgrimaldus8301 I'm very interested in this area of history, but, as Paul said, much of the content on this period of history is focused on the war crimes and less on the politics, key players, and international cooperation. Do you know of any books or documentaries that expand more on this?
@@joshseveck5040 I mean the 1st Crusade is simplified, and often forget the Political situations on why its called by the Pope like for example the decline of the Byzantine Empire hence it asking for aid, the attempts of the Pope to use the situation on Anatolia to stabilize his position as the Papacy was in chaos at the time, the aggression of the Islam World on previous eras ect.
Yup a lot of people doesn't realise that muslims in the crusaders state were actually treated rather nicely and it's not all war and violence (tho those does exist) and the sources we have on this being true are actually from muslim scholars like the Muslim chronicler Ibn Jubayr who wrote:
"We moved from Tibnin-may Allah destroy it-at daybreak on Monday. Our way lay through continuous farms and ordered settlements, whose inhabitants were all Muslims, living comfortably with the Franks. Allah protect us from such temptation. They surrender half their crops to the Franks at harvest time, and pay as well a poll-tax of one dinar and five qirat for each person. Other than that, they are not interfered with, save for a light tax on the fruits of trees. Their houses and all their effects are left to their full possession. All the coastal cities occupied by the Franks are managed in this fashion, their rural districts, the villages and farms, belonging to the Muslims. But their hearts have been seduced, for they observe how unlike them in ease and comfort are their brethren in the Muslim regions under their Muslim governors. . . . The Muslim community bewails the injustice of a landlord of its own faith, and applauds the conduct of its opponent and enemy, the Frankish landlord, and is accustomed to justice from him."
Wonderful and excellent! Really glad to have heard of Malta through the end of this! I was waiting for them :)
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Edit: eh. I half stand corrected. Still a great video and very interesting, but when the video title said ‘Crusader States’, I honestly thought it was going to primarily focus on the K. of Jerusalem, Principality of Antioch and the Counties of Edessa and Tripoli - the period between the first and second crusades - but I like the extend geographical and time scales
Ye here I was thinking it'll help for what two weeks yesterday, guess it's back to timelines
This is literally the perfect timing for this video!! I was literally just studying for my world history exam thank you osp
I always love how you mix some architecture with history in your videos.
1:59 : They did many crusades, some of which ALMOST didn't fail!
The original is always the best, the sequels never live up to them.
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 Well, there WAS one that worked fantastically well, partly because there were no battles during it. Watch Pope Fights 4 for more information
I’m really glad to learn about so many crusades
Thanks for including that last part, Blue. You saved me six lines of comments about how this was all built on the back/swiped land of my people.
Love the sound effects in all the OSP videos. That squeaky shield made me bust up in giggles.
Love your channel guys, would you ever maybe do a vid on Romani people.
It’s always hard to find a video that doesn’t go straight for the stereotypes and Romani all over the world have different traditions but also share many traditions.
Being a Romani myself I’d be happy to help you with this.
I second this. Romani people are so much more that some ridiculous stereotypes. I'd love to learn more of them!
I third this. We should learn about Romani
I fourth this, I think it would be a wonderful resource for dispelling misconceptions
@@aetherinfuse Romanians and Romani are not the same group of people.
@@buckarooben7635 Oh sorry! Its a typo, my bad
Another great video!
Cool video! Very interesting panel flip transitions
"The Holy Land is a flexible term."
I mean, just look at the Mormans.
Thank you!
Great topic!
The nice thing about Blue's videos about bits of history I know very little about is learning how all of history links back to Italy
Thanks for this.
On a Friday the 13th, King Philip IV of France arrested and executed hundreds of Templars. It's commonly cited as the origin of the superstition about the day. Considering the release date, I thought that would have come up.
But Blue is the history guy, not the myth guy. Why bring up an unsubstantiated falsehood?
Yay an upload
Hey blue absolutely love your work!! Can you do a history on each of the Crusader orders?
Love this topic
Thank you for the video.
Great video!
Blue: mentions malta
The horde of maltese fans: WHO HAS SUMMONED ME!
No I'm glad you're talking about it. Some of us are still living it so it's nice to be heard
"There were many crusades, some of which almost didn't fail." -Bill Wurtz
Cool topic!
Just did a presentation on Famagusta a few weeks ago for finals, was happy to see it mentioned here. The city's been neglected for centuries and has been in a complicated state between Cyprus and Turkey since the 70s, leaving much of its art to fall into ruin while what's left is very much at risk.
Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job
And you post this just as my Crusader final ended an hour ago, oh well. Still a great video!
Now please do the Baltic Crusader states and Eastern European crusades!
it would be really fun to watch blue play some CK 3
I remember about two years ago during my AP history class, we were covering the Crusades and my teacher asked why the Crusader states didn’t last too long, and I point out that they were surrounded by everyone that would’ve considered them enemies.
The Crusades (and the Templar order specifically, as you can tell by my handle) were always an interesting thing for me. Especially once you get past the propaganda and those that fell for the propaganda, and see how little religion actually had to do with a lot of it. It was a power play, the "infidels" were just an excuse. The Pope wanted control of the Eastern Orthodox church, the various western European powers had a lot of extra noble heirs without lands to give them, and in general if someone hadn't had a bright idea of launch the crusades, there would have been a massive pan-European war within a century or so.
Which probably would have caused a lot less trouble for the world in general, all things considered...
I respectfully slightly disagree. We modern people often have difficulties seeing why someone would go to that much trouble for purely religious reasons, but the world was different in the middle ages. You're not wrong saying that power politics were always a big part of crusading, and arguably some participants were in it for personal gain, such as Bohemond of Taranto and later Simon de Montfort during the Albigensian crusade. But at the same time tens of thousands of people with everything to lose and very little material to gain went on crusade, sometimes more than once. The Second Sons - argument had been largely debunked. Most crusading armies were led by men who were already established power players, often monarchs or their close relatives. The troops were either sworn followers of these lords or volunteers who most often saw the enterprise as an armed pilgrimage, intending to either die bearing the cross and achieve martyrdom or complete the journey, pray at Jesus' tomb and then return home. Very few individuals stayed in the Holy Land or were able to get rich. The notable exception being the 4th Crusade, which was excommunicated the moment it attacked fellow Christians.
Oh no, religion very VERY much was part of it, especially for the first one. Just because you don't understand it or feel it, doesn't mean it wasn't real for them. You can read their letters and writings; religious belief underpins all of it. Those who didn't have a choice of going -- for the First especially, if a noble went he took his entire household with him and they didn't get a choice to say no -- self-radicalization was common to have some sort of agency over their feelings about going. It wasn't about money or land grabbing. Most noble men who went were first sons who basically mortgaged their estates (going on crusade for a couple years was EXPENSIVE), did their pilgrimage, and went back home, having lost money and gained no land. The entire thing is complex and complicated and has so many strands and causes; a pithy 'it was about power' isn't any more correct or less eye-rolling than 'it was a clash of cultures!'
@@Lolibeth True, true. I guess I'm looking at a lot of the actions of the popes at the time, and being really, really cynical.
can you guys do one with Cyprus? I really like seeing you talking about some of the more obscure areas of history
The sound effect for the "six subsequent crusades" was hilarious! Thanks for that, made my day!
1:58 in the video
Why let implicit strategic liabilities get in the way of a good crusade?
Pilgram: I finally made it to Jerusalem! Where is the tomb of Jesus?
Crusaider: Welcome, you may settle your travel fee at the bank of the Knights Templars.
Pilgram: Yes sure but can you tell me were the tomb is?
Crusaider: Not before you pay your fee for my salary err...... I mean....... maintiance of the holy city of God......... but mainly my salary.
PS. I'm from Malta!! Studying my BA (Hons.) in European and Global History at the University of Malta. I'm specialising in Medieval European history and I have a love for medieval crusading. Love the channel and the podcast!
So true about the death thing.
Even on the islands later on battles were bloody.
Like the siege of Candia for 21 years iirc.
Valetta is beautiful, managed to go visit malts last year and both islands were chocked full of sites
Malta has always fascinated me
RHODES HAS THE LARGEST STILL-IN-USE-AS-A-CITY MEDIEVAL OLD TOWN CORE IN EUROPE! Also, big ass fortifications, and there's just Ottoman cannonballs just sorta chilling in the moats, you could sit on an ottoman cannonball if you were so inclined. The fortifications though, and oh some beautiful medieval structures. I so highly recommend it. Also the Kastello at 4:38 is also know by its name "Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes", its beautiful, and its both part byzantine and part crusader gothic. The town itself is a mix of byzantine, crusader gothic, and ottoman!
The new town also has a line of three umbrella shops right next to eachother.
Noticed that Blue is about to start talking about the crusades: *grabs popcorn*
I hope you will cover the northern crusader states in another video.
Could you do one on the Teutonic and Livonian crusader states as well?
2:22 “Richard the Lionheart took the island while on his way to Crusade”
Lionheart didn’t “take” the island, his fleet shipwrecked there and the survivors (and Richard’s family) were arrested by a Byzantine bandit king+ mercenaries. Phrasing matters
Hello Maltese person here 🇲🇹
Thank you for remember our country exists because this is a very rare occurence. (Great video btw
I recently watched an interesting documentary series on discovery called hidden cities with Albert Lin and the first one focused on the base of the Templar knights in Acro. He uses a lot of newer technology like LIDAR lasers combined with drones usually in places where something like this have never been done before and gets really cool results
deeply thankful that our fav MachiMachi referred to the Third Crusade as such. Had SOOOOOOOOOOOO many arguments with my mom using wikipedia for this one. :P
Acre was my favourite location in the 1st assassin's creed game. So dark and gritty in comparison to the other cities.
Any chance you could do a video on Baldwin IV? He's a fascinating figure. Diagnosed with leprosy at the age of ten, yet he managed to hold onto his throne as King of Jerusalem despite his illness, conspiracies to put others on the throne and the threat from Saladin. Also, it would be interesting to learn why the pope of the time didn't like Baldwin
Wonderful video! Would you consider talking about the formation and relationships of the Italian city states? You’d get to gush about Florence 😮
“I assure you, Deus does not Vult” 😂considering how poorly the crusader states failed, they clearly did not have divine intervention on their side
Well, Crusade number one did okay, but it became pretty clear by number three that this was no book of Joshua
The 1st was very lucky, it was like Divine intervention but you can just be lucky a few times, also there were a few close call Crusades like the 5th which targeted Cairo a much more richer place to take than the Holy Land.
But even if the Crusaders managed to take Egypt the Ottomans would have just kicked them out eventually. (The Ottomans were basically the most advanced army of their time during their rise)
@@sortagoodish8491 not really yet but by the 6th interest was still high from the people but by then many of the Nobility were probably done with it, the 7th was basically just France.
Also asking for Catholics to migrate to the Outramer was very difficult, they basically just wanted to be Tourists as the land wasn't that good for farming so not that lucrative (which is why the Crusaders just ruled in the Big Cities and were absentie rulers of the country side) many people who just wanted cash went to either Iberia or Prussia because of this (and also the Crusades there had more success generally)
The miracle is that they happened in the first place.
@@appleislander8536 more like happen to take the Lavant in the 1st place when they would realistically have died of starvation fighting the Seljuks, TBH if you just told the story of the 1st Crusade without mentioning its a historical event people might think you just told them about a missing Game of Thrones Season or worse maybe an R rated version of Lord of the Rings.
It’s funny how we somehow ended up making really similar videos. At school I was assigned to talk about a city I love, and decided to tell the story of the Knights Hospitaller from Jerusalem to Malta. Of course I wasn’t able to talk about the architecture as well as you though.
" 'Holy Land' Is A Flexible Concept".
Thank You Blue.
I don’t know if this the appropriate place for requests, but I would love to see an episode about the history of Nusantara! It’s a huge and fascinating region that sadly often goes under the radar in the Anglosphere.
Love these videos hope for more and also will we get a video about Helen of troy if she was a villain or a victim.
A dedicated Hellen video would be pretty neat. I don't see how she could be considered a villain, though? Villains deliberately make bad things happen... Meanwhile, Helen's main claim to fame was getting kidnapped. If anyone's to blame for "war broke out over Helen of Troy being abducted", it's the morons who _caused_ the incident by abducting her.
Extra History did a vid on this and it's insane. You guys should do a collaboration.
Nice 👍🏽!!
You know what's an interesting read that makes you wonder about the possibilities of the Battle of Troy? There's a book I once found a library made by a poet who claims to have some sort of retrograde clairvoyance (being able to see the past without any way to record what actually happened) through their writings and it's called "Helena of Egypt." It claims that Helen of Troy was a twin used as a decoy, and the real pair of eyes that launched a thousand ships was hidden away in Egypt. Achilles also had a twin as well at the same time who would come visit her and she was smitten by him locked away in a tower.
It's a strange mix of the mythological and the forever lost historical, that feels believable yet unreal at the same time.
Crusaders in Acre getting pumped up to 'retake' Jerusalem blasting Bon Jovi's "Livin' on A Prayer". Mood.
You should do a follow-up on the Baltic Crusader states. Unlike the Kingdom of Jerusalem, they didn't disappear after two centuries or so. In fact some of their successor states exist to this day. Arguably.
I’m once again asking for a video on the goddess tykhe
Me who lives near the dead sea, and looks at the map: I've seen enough. I'm satisfied.
Yeah, I’d like a side of *Crusader Fries* with that *Smiteburger,* please.
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
I’m so upset I never learned the rich history of Portugal, it’d be awesome if you could cover it
Thanks for talking about the orthodox Gothic cathedral architecture. Orthodox Gothic architecture is beautiful.
Me when I see St. Paul's Cathedral
"Oh hey, I've been there"
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Securing the new Christian territories was now of utmost concern. The Crusade of 1101, for example, was organized by Pope Paschal II to reinforce Christian rule in the Holy Land, but it collapsed in Asia Minor. King Baldwin, however, profited nonetheless from the chronic rivalries of his Muslim neighbours.
castles had been built in Galilee, the frontier pushed southward, and Crusader states formed in the north. The county of Edessa, an ill-defined domain extending into the upper Euphrates region with a population consisting mainly of Armenians and Syrians, had already been established by Godfrey’s brother Baldwin.
And there the most embrassing moment where the crusades attack the eastern Roman Empire which the biggest Christian power in the Middle East
Richard the Lionheart was a GOAT ;)
It's so strange and kinda fun to see the flag 🇩🇰 everywhere 😅 I know it's a crusade orders flag as well as the danish flag, but it's still wild to see in so many paintings 😂 hey, would you consider making a video about the flash? The danish have some pretty neat legends attached to it, and I'm sure there's crusade stories as well! 🇩🇰💖
Can you do a video on the Northern Crusades? Those rarely get much attention outside of the Baltic states
I should go backpacking across the Med at some point. Between the crusader states, Hellenistic cities, and locations from The Count Of Monte Cristo (friend's a big fan) there's too many things to see which photographs will not suffice for.
I wold have loved to see a brief shoutout to the teutonic order as kinda another crusader state xD
Word to crusaders: Think if what you will do AFTER you get a hold of the holy land. Really helps to know what to do with it.
I mean ... they held parts of it for almost 200 years.