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Elite Participation in the Third Crusade
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2Family and Heritage: Lineage, Kinship, and TraditionConsider therefore, my sons, how you came into this world and how all leave it, how all things pass and thus you will pass on. Use the time for repentance and doing well insofar as it regards you, with thanks. Give yourselves over not to utter destruction, but give for yourselves in service to him, from whom you and everything came because you who cannot make even a gnat upon the land, have nothing of your own.1Pope Gregory VIII, Audita Tremendi, 1187Traditions of familial commitment to the crusading movement were estab-lished very quickly.2 By the time of the Third Crusade some families could draw upon nearly a hundred years of dynastic practice and this chapter shows that significant numbers of participants enjoyed a crusading pedigree. Similarly, from the First Crusade onwards, crusaders often departed for the Holy Land alongside their kith (friends) and kin (family) or as members of military households as part of a collective response. This chapter shows that the Third Crusade was no exception.In many elite families, crusading took place both across and within generations, and individuals might take the Cross on a number of sepa-rate occasions alongside differing members of their family. Based on his comprehensive prosopographical research of the early crusaders, Jonathan Riley-Smith argued that ‘the crusading movement itself was as much in the collective consciousness of certain noble and knightly families as in the 1 ‘Cogitate itaque, filii, qualiter in hunc mundum venistis et qualiter exituri estis, qual-iter transeant universa et pariter transeatis et vos, et penitendi ac bene agendi tempus, quantum spectat ad vos, cum gratiarum actione recipite et date vos ipsos non in exter-minium, sed in observationem ei, a quo et vos et vestra omnia accepistis, quia non estis ex vobis nec quidquam ex vobis habetis, qui nec culicem unum potestis facere super terram’: Audita Tremendi, 1187, ‘Ansbertus’, Historia de expeditione Friderici imperatoris. ed. Chroust , p. 9.2 Both Christopher Tyerman and Jonathan Riley-Smith argue that the traditions of familial crusading were laid down early in the twelfth century; Tyerman, England, p. 35; and, Riley-Smith, First Crusaders, pp. 93–7.
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2Family and Heritage: Lineage, Kinship, and TraditionConsider therefore, my sons, how you came into this world and how all leave it, how all things pass and thus you will pass on. Use the time for repentance and doing well insofar as it regards you, with thanks. Give yourselves over not to utter destruction, but give for yourselves in service to him, from whom you and everything came because you who cannot make even a gnat upon the land, have nothing of your own.1Pope Gregory VIII, Audita Tremendi, 1187Traditions of familial commitment to the crusading movement were estab-lished very quickly.2 By the time of the Third Crusade some families could draw upon nearly a hundred years of dynastic practice and this chapter shows that significant numbers of participants enjoyed a crusading pedigree. Similarly, from the First Crusade onwards, crusaders often departed for the Holy Land alongside their kith (friends) and kin (family) or as members of military households as part of a collective response. This chapter shows that the Third Crusade was no exception.In many elite families, crusading took place both across and within generations, and individuals might take the Cross on a number of sepa-rate occasions alongside differing members of their family. Based on his comprehensive prosopographical research of the early crusaders, Jonathan Riley-Smith argued that ‘the crusading movement itself was as much in the collective consciousness of certain noble and knightly families as in the 1 ‘Cogitate itaque, filii, qualiter in hunc mundum venistis et qualiter exituri estis, qual-iter transeant universa et pariter transeatis et vos, et penitendi ac bene agendi tempus, quantum spectat ad vos, cum gratiarum actione recipite et date vos ipsos non in exter-minium, sed in observationem ei, a quo et vos et vestra omnia accepistis, quia non estis ex vobis nec quidquam ex vobis habetis, qui nec culicem unum potestis facere super terram’: Audita Tremendi, 1187, ‘Ansbertus’, Historia de expeditione Friderici imperatoris. ed. Chroust , p. 9.2 Both Christopher Tyerman and Jonathan Riley-Smith argue that the traditions of familial crusading were laid down early in the twelfth century; Tyerman, England, p. 35; and, Riley-Smith, First Crusaders, pp. 93–7.
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. List of Illustrations vi
  4. Preface and Acknowledgements vii
  5. List of Abbreviations x
  6. Notes on Sources, Names, and Coinage xiii
  7. Maps xiv
  8. Introduction 1
  9. 1. Faith and Finance: Religious Foundations, Ecclesiastical Leaders, and Fraternity 29
  10. 2. Family and Heritage: Lineage, Kinship, and Tradition 90
  11. 3. Locality and Fellowship: Territory, Trade, and Tournaments 121
  12. 4. The Household of King Richard I at the Time of the Third Crusade 159
  13. Conclusion: Personal, Spiritual, and Communal Influences on Participation in the Third Crusade 213
  14. Appendices 220
  15. Bibliography 397
  16. Index 437
  17. Warfare in History 446
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. List of Illustrations vi
  4. Preface and Acknowledgements vii
  5. List of Abbreviations x
  6. Notes on Sources, Names, and Coinage xiii
  7. Maps xiv
  8. Introduction 1
  9. 1. Faith and Finance: Religious Foundations, Ecclesiastical Leaders, and Fraternity 29
  10. 2. Family and Heritage: Lineage, Kinship, and Tradition 90
  11. 3. Locality and Fellowship: Territory, Trade, and Tournaments 121
  12. 4. The Household of King Richard I at the Time of the Third Crusade 159
  13. Conclusion: Personal, Spiritual, and Communal Influences on Participation in the Third Crusade 213
  14. Appendices 220
  15. Bibliography 397
  16. Index 437
  17. Warfare in History 446
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