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  • Third Crusade site where Christian forces defeated Muslim army identified

    08/06/2020 9:32:10 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 14 replies
    Jerusalem Post ^ | August 2, 2020 | Rossella Tercatin
    In 1187, Saladin managed to defeat the Crusader states and reconquer Jerusalem, prompting Richard to initiate another military campaign to regain Christian control over the Holy Land. After Acre surrendered to him, the king started to descend along Israel's coast with his forces. "Ultimately, Richard and the Crusaders wanted to reconquer Jerusalem, but first the monarch decided to march south to capture Jaffa," the archaeologist explained. The march along the shore allowed the troops to be protected by the Mediterranean Sea on their right side and to receive the logistical support of their fleet. Lewis pointed out that Richard proved...
  • 1199: Pierre Basile, marksman

    04/06/2020 2:08:46 PM PDT · by CheshireTheCat · 17 replies
    ExecutedToday.com ^ | April 6, 2010 | Jonathan Shipley
    If you kill a king, expect swift retribution. Expect avengers. Expect to not live long after you deal the final fatal blow to a royal personage. A boy, Pierre Basile, was executed on this date in 1199 for shooting King Richard the Lionhearted* with an arrow expelled from his crossbow.
  • Uncovering Nottingham’s hidden medieval sandstone caves

    05/13/2010 1:06:08 PM PDT · by decimon · 10 replies · 642+ views
    University of Nottingham ^ | May 10, 2010 | Unknown
    The very latest laser technology combined with old fashioned pedal power is being used to provide a unique insight into the layout of Nottingham’s sandstone caves — where the city’s renowned medieval ale was brewed and, where legend has it, the country’s most famous outlaw Robin Hood was imprisoned. The Nottingham Caves Survey, being carried out by archaeologists from Trent & Peak Archaeology at The University of Nottingham, has already produced extraordinary, three dimensional, fly through, colour animation of caves that have been hidden from view for centuries. Below the grounds of Nottingham Castle and across the city there is...
  • Hood not so good? Ancient Brits questioned outlaw

    03/14/2009 11:16:04 AM PDT · by Turret Gunner A20 · 31 replies · 1,224+ views
    PeoplePC Online ^ | Saturday, March 14, 2009 | Staff
    LONDON - A British academic says he's found proof that Britain's legendary outlaw Robin Hood wasn't as popular with the poor as folklore suggests. Julian Luxford says a newly found note in the margins of an ancient history book contains rare criticism of the supposedly benevolent bandit. According to legend, Hood roamed 13th-century Britain from a base in central England's Sherwood Forest, plundering from the rich to give to the poor. But Luxford, an art history lecturer at the University of St. Andrews, in Fife, Scotland, says a 23-word inscription in a history book, written in Latin by a medieval...
  • The 13th Century manuscript that shows Robin Hood and his Merry Men weren't so popular after all

    03/14/2009 7:48:20 AM PDT · by PotatoHeadMick · 70 replies · 2,162+ views
    Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 14th March 2009 | Paul Sims
    Folklore holds that Robin Hood was a fearless outlaw loathed by the rich and loved by the poor. Fighting injustice and tyranny, his gallantry became the stuff of legend - and Hollywood movies. But according to a newly-discovered manuscript entry it appears that Robin and his Merry Men may not have been as popular as the stories would have us believe.Written in Latin and buried among the treasures of Eton's library, the 23 sparse words shed new light on the Sheriff of Nottingham's mortal foe. Translated, the 550-year-old note reads: 'Around this time, according to popular opinion, a certain outlaw...
  • Torture pit where Robin Hood was imprisoned found under Nottingham Galleries of Justice[UK]

    02/27/2009 10:49:38 AM PST · by BGHater · 42 replies · 2,043+ views
    Culture 24 ^ | 26 Feb 2009 | Ben Miller
    A bottle-necked pit where hated outlaws including Robin Hood were imprisoned and starved or driven to insanity in the Middle Ages has been discovered by archaeologists in the underground caves of the Galleries of Justice Museum in Nottingham. Known as an oubliette (“to forget” in French), the hole was used as a holding cell for dissenters against the Sheriff of Nottingham, and the city’s favourite wealth-regulating son is believed to have been cast into it after being arrested by the Sheriff and his men at the nearby St Mary’s Church. “The opening was bricked over centuries ago, probably in the...
  • Robin Hood's Prison? Sheriff's Dungeon Found At Nottingham Gaol

    10/17/2007 2:33:00 PM PDT · by blam · 44 replies · 143+ views
    24 Hour Museum ^ | 10-17-2007 | Caroline lewis
    ROBIN HOOD'S PRISON? SHERIFF'S DUNGEON FOUND AT NOTTINGHAM GAOL By Caroline Lewis 17/10/2007 One of the above ground prison cells at the Galleries of Justice. © Galleries of Justice New evidence has been discovered that the medieval caves under Nottingham’s Galleries of Justice museum were once used by the Sheriff of Nottingham as a prison. The dark dungeon cells would have been in use when the Sheriff resided at the Shire Hall and County Gaol. “It is an exciting discovery,” said Tim Desmond, Chief Executive at the Galleries. “The cave has always been known as the ‘Sheriff’s Dungeon’, but until...
  • Robin Hood was Welsh and never went to Nottingham, claims book

    09/25/2006 4:26:36 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 11 replies · 424+ views
    Robin Hood was really a Welsh freedom fighter who never even set foot in Nottingham let alone Sherwood Forest, a historian has claimed. The medieval outlaw - said to have robbed from the rich to give to the poor - never once met Maid Marian nor the Sheriff of Nottingham, according to Stephen Lawhead. The American blows apart the widely accepted version of the legend in his new book, Hood, arguing that Robin Hood was really a hardened Guerrilla based in the Valleys. But tourism chiefs in Nottingham have rubbished the theory, warning: "Hands off our Robin!" Lawhead, 56, believes...
  • A Merry Mess: Yorkshire Claims Robin Hood

    02/22/2004 12:12:52 PM PST · by blam · 14 replies · 367+ views
    Herald Tribune ^ | 2-17-2004 | Lizette Alvarez
    A merry mess: Yorkshire claims Robin Hood Lizette Alvarez/NYT Tuesday, February 17, 2004 NOTTINGHAM, England Not since Mikhail Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union has there been such a fuss over a man in tights. For centuries, Robin Hood, the dashing, chivalrous hero to the oppressed, has been the property of Nottinghamshire in the midlands - land of Sherwood Forest, Nottingham Castle and one nefarious sheriff. But now, in a brazen grab for bragging rights, Yorkshire, an adjacent county, is laying claim to the 800-year-old legend and demanding, by way of a parliamentary motion, immediate redress. In a country where...
  • 'Robin Hood's Escape Tunnel Found'

    08/16/2002 3:34:58 PM PDT · by blam · 55 replies · 819+ views
    Ananova ^ | 8-16-2002
    'Robin Hood's escape tunnel found' Experts believe they've found a tunnel that allowed Robin Hood to escape from the Sheriff of Nottingham. The secret passageway found under the Galleries of Justice museum in Nottingham is eight feet below street level. Archaeologists excavating 14th-century manmade caves beneath the museum stumbled upon it accidentally when they broke through a rotten wood floor. The museum's curator Louise Connell says the tunnel leads towards St Mary's Church, where ancient documents say Robin sought sanctuary from the Sheriff 's men. The Evening Post says it's believed he used the tunnel to escape from the church,...
  • Archaeologists Have Uncovered A Royal Palace Used By King Henry II

    09/23/2007 1:38:57 PM PDT · by blam · 42 replies · 212+ views
    Newbury Today ^ | 9-23-2007
    Archaeologists have uncovered a royal palace used by King Henry II AN ANCIENT royal palace near Kingsclere unearthed during recent excavations will be open to the public over the weekend (September 22-23). The Royal Palace of Fremantle has lain hidden under the Hampshire Downs at Tidgrove Warren Farm, in the parish of Hannington, for nearly 900 years. Over the last three years the site has been excavated by staff and students from the University of Southampton in association with the Kingsclere Heritage Association local volunteers. Explorations have revealed a medieval enclosed settlement surrounded by a massive ditch - larger than...
  • Crusade Propaganda: The abuse of Christianity's Holy Wars

    11/02/2001 4:48:53 AM PST · by Darth Reagan · 62 replies · 2,523+ views
    National Review Online ^ | November 2, 2001 | Thomas F. Madden
    Crusade Propaganda The abuse of Christianity’s holy wars. By Thomas F. Madden, the author of A Concise History of the Crusades and coauthor of The Fourth Crusade, is associate professor and chair of the Department of History at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. November 2, 2001 8:00 a.m. ince September 11 the crusades are news. When President Bush used the term "crusade" as it is commonly used, to denote a grand enterprise with a moral dimension, the media pelted him for insensitivity to Muslims. (Nevermind that the media used the term in precisely the same way before the ...
  • Why is King John the classic villain?

    03/01/2011 5:10:48 AM PST · by decimon · 35 replies
    BBC ^ | March 1, 2011 | Unknown
    A new film about King John further underlines history's judgement of the medieval English monarch as a cruel tyrant. But among the dozens of bad kings and despots, why is John always the pantomime villain?Surrendering lands in France, forced into a humiliating climbdown with the nobility and ex-communicated by the Church. Not to mention being blamed for the murder of his nephew. > "He was a very considerable failure as a king. He loses a large amount of possessions inherited, in particular lands in France, like Normandy and Anjou. He manages to surrender his realm to the pope and ends...
  • Austria €10 Richard the Lionheart Silver Coins Issued [Redhead Caucus]

    02/22/2011 5:27:33 PM PST · by WPaCon · 41 replies
    CoinNews.net ^ | October 8, 2009 | Austrian Mint
    The Austrian Mint in Vienna is issuing the second coin in its €10 silver commemorative series "Tales and Legends in Austria". The theme of the new coin is the captivity of the English king, Richard I, on his homeward journey from the Third Crusade in 1192 and the legend of his loyal friend and troubadour who is said to have discovered in which castle the king was being held. Austria 10€ Richard the Lionheart Silver Coin The first part of the story is indeed history. Richard, called the "Lionhearted" even in his lifetime, mortally offended Duke Leopold V of Austria...