the middle ages were crazy like you hear stories about it and they're just marvel movie tropes basically but that shit HAPPENED it really did just heard a story of an iberian queen who rode between the armies of her husband and son and shamed them to peace trooooope AND YET
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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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