Interestingly, Richard I is said to have had 120 'Saracen mercenaries' in his employ…! A discussion by F.M. Powicke: https://archive.org/stream/scottishhistoric08edinuoft#page/104/mode/2up …pic.twitter.com/TRxkd2D8hS
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Interestingly, Richard I is said to have had 120 'Saracen mercenaries' in his employ…! A discussion by F.M. Powicke: https://archive.org/stream/scottishhistoric08edinuoft#page/104/mode/2up …pic.twitter.com/TRxkd2D8hS
Fwiw his father, Henry II, apparently similarly had Saracen mercenaries in his employ during the 1180s… http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/prosopon/issue11-1.pdf … (p.1 & fn.3)
Henry II's reign also when a man named Mahumet (Muhammad) seems to have been living & duelling in Wiltshire, 1160–5: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/prosopon/issue11-1.pdf …pic.twitter.com/vaAHvupC5O
Fwiw, Islamic gold dinars in late eleventh- and twelfth-century England — a brief post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/04/islamic-gold-dinars-anglo-norman.html …pic.twitter.com/j3VODLJ4KL
Al-Idrisi in 12thC on Hastings: 'a town of large extent+many inhabitants, flourishing+handsome, having markets, workpeople & rich merchants'
Years ago, I read a book called "Pawn in Frankincense" by Dorothy Dunnett, which inspired as yet unquenched desire to visit Istanbul.
And the pieces fit together better than my floor tiles!
What a beautiful tile! I could look at that all day!
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How do we know it's Richard #CoeurDeLion of England,& not -say- HumphreyIV of Toron, or William II the Good of Sicily,or ..#Balian d'Ibelin?
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