saint louis! he was real! it's not just a dying midwestern city he literally scoured himself and wore a hairshirt and was just this bizarrely JUST king can you imagine?!
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there was an accounting error when a huge ransom was paid for him to saracens, and he underpaid by 10% after being released after imprisonment he actually went back and gave his captors the balance owed
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one of his nobles killed three students for poaching rabbits he took away the guys forest, forced him to Jerusalem for three years, and made him build a shrine to each student with mass said daily can you just imagine this?
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If you wanna trip, read the manuals for crusaders. Apparently looting mid battle was a constant problem
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It’s all like that really, especially English history around the time of the war of the roses to the establishment of the Tudor dynasty. A simpleton king, to probably the greatest battle king in English history to crowning a guy who’s claim was so tenuous 1/
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That it would have been impossible for him to be crowned if it was t for the fact that there really wasn’t anyone left.
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Honestly the true stories of the middle ages are 10 times better than any marvel plot. The entire story of Joan of Arc is insane.
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If you like podcast, History on Fire has a series on Joan of Arc. The podcaster has a very thick Italian accent but you get used to it.
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