A mid-13thC tile from Chertsey Abbey, Surrey, showing King Richard I, who was crowned #OTD, 3 Sept 1189: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Britishmuseumrichardandsaladintiles.jpg …pic.twitter.com/y0WbxGS3MW
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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'
And the Byzantine emperors had Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian mercenaries in the Varangian Guard in Constantinople, including Harald Hardrada, later killed at Stamford Bridge. You pays your money, you takes your choice.
Indeed, as in fact I've blogged about here:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/600591529401516032?s=19 …
Also, a great reminder that attention to these things is not new.
Very true :)
I thought this was well-known? I seem to remember reading a book on the crusades when I was ten or eleven stating this
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