The History of the Crusades Quotes

“but the Genoese, at the sight of such a rich booty, paid no respect to the capitulation, and massacred without pity a disarmed and defenceless people. This”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“The war-cry of the Christian soldiers was: “Christ lives, Christ reigns, Christ commands.”[233]”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“The Christian warriors fought like lions, animated by their war-cry “Victory or Death!” Baldwin”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“if they fell, heaven would be open to them; if they triumphed, the fame of their victory would be spread throughout the Christian world. There could be no safety in flight; their home was beyond the seas; in the East there was no asylum for the conquered.” After”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“These differences with Tancred did not impede Baldwin’s wars against the infidels, or”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“Godfrey of Bouillon surpassed all the captains of his age in his skill in war; and if he had lived some time longer, would have merited a name among great kings.”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“Thus all the citizens of the kingdom were judged by their peers, and enjoyed the benefits of an institution which has not been despised in ages much more enlightened.”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“The first obligation of a subject or a vassal towards his prince or his lord, was to defend him or avenge him in every case of outrage, and to protect the honour of his wife, his daughter, or his sister; to follow him in all perils, and to surrender himself as hostage for him, if he fell into the hands of his enemies.[227]”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“The king was to undertake to maintain the laws, to defend the Church, to protect widows and orphans, to watch over the safety of both people and lords, and to lead in war. The”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“In this solemn assembly the first care was to regulate and determine the duties of the barons, the lords, and the common subjects, towards the king, and the duties of the king towards the lords and subjects. The”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“Godfrey undertook to rule so many conflicting pretensions, and”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“In the mean time the wise Godfrey, after having freed his territory from the incursions of the Mussulmans, and carried the terror of his arms beyond the Jordan, reflected that victory was not all that was required to found a state. His”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“patriarch, if Godfrey should die without children. Godfrey thus acknowledged himself the vassal of the sovereign pontiff, and received from the pope and his legate permission to reign over a country conquered by his arms. Bohemond and Baldwin consented at the same time to receive from the pope the investiture of their principalities. The”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“The emirs, after having offered presents to Godfrey, returned to their own country, and related the wonders they had seen. Their recitals, which history has not disdained, contributed greatly to increase the fame of the king of Jerusalem.”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“THE HISTORY OF THE middle ages presents no spectacle more imposing than the Crusades, in which are to be seen the nations of Asia and of Europe armed against each other, two religions contending for superiority, and disputing the empire of the world.”
― Jospeh Michaud, The History of the Crusades

“Some cities of Italy and the provinces near the Pyrenees, where the Goths had encouraged the Roman laws, alone exhibited glimmerings of civilization. Among”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“The Macedonians, in their invasion of the East, had scarcely any nation to contend with but the Persians, an effeminate people, previously”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“departure of Conrad, marshal of the emperor Henry, Wolf IX., duke of Bavaria, the princess Ida, margravine of Austria; and a great number of lords and knights.”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“Among these latter was William IX., count of Poictiers, a relation of the emperor of Germany, and the most powerful vassal of the king of France. An amiable and intelligent prince, of not at all a warlike character, he left, to take up the pilgrim’s staff, a voluptuous and gallant court, which he had often delighted with his songs. He took upon him the cross at Limoges, and set out for the East, accompanied by a great number of his vassals, among whom were a vast many women and young girls.[206]”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“Ancient chronicles have celebrated the heroic devotion of Ida, countess of Hainault, who made the voyage to the East, and braved all dangers in search of her husband. Sent”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“The Egyptian army was composed of many different nations, which were divided among themselves;”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“They represented to them the fatal consequences of their inaction, which rendered all the labours of the Crusaders useless, and closed for ever the doors of the East against pilgrims.”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“The caliph of Bagdad, deprived of his authority, had nothing to offer but his prayers and tears for the cause of the Mussulmans.”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“Zeimeddin, cadhi of Damascus, tore out his own beard in the presence of the Caliph.”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“He refused the diadem and the insignia of royalty, saying that he would never accept a crown of gold in a city in which the Saviour of the world had been crowned with thorns.”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“To add to this honourable testimony, the exploits of the duke of Lorraine during the holy war were dwelt upon. They remembered that at the siege of Nice he had killed the most redoubtable of the Saracens; that he had split from shoulder to haunch a giant on the bridge of Antioch, and that in Asia Minor he had exposed his life to save that of a soldier who was overpowered by a bear.”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“Most of them even thought of offering him the honour he had declined, for he who in such circumstances refuses a crown, always appears to be the most worthy of it;”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“Do not believe, however, brothers and companions, that I speak thus because I am ambitious of royalty, and that I am seeking your favour or suffrages. No; I have not sufficient presumption to aspire to such an honour; I take Heaven and men to witness, that even if you should offer me the crown, I would not accept it,”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“temperance, good faith, and humanity; for you know by such virtues great principalities are acquired and kept as well as by arms.”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes

“they expressed astonishment that God should thus have employed only a single man to stir up so many nations,”
― Joseph Francois Michaud, The History of the Crusades: All Volumes