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druzhina
10-30-2013, 07:59
Sources for Ian Heath's illustrations of 12th & 13th century knights in Armies and Enemies of the Crusades 1096-1291:
3. Frankish knight c.1097 (http://warfare.tk/WRG/Crusades-3-Knight_1097.htm) based on a painted window in the monastery church of St Denis in Paris (http://warfare.gq/12/St_Denis-Plate-50-Vol-1.htm)
4. Frankish knight c.1150 (http://warfare.tk/WRG/Crusades-4-Knight_1150.htm) perhaps based on Roland and the Knights on their way to Compostela in the Codex Calixtinus (http://warfare.gq/12/Codex_Calixtinus-162v.htm)
5. Frankish knight c.1189 (http://warfare.tk/WRG/Crusades-5-Knight-c1189.htm) based on the seals of Richard Coeur-de-Lion (http://warfare.gq/12/Seals_of_Richard_I.htm)
6. Frankish knight c.1250 (http://warfare.tk/WRG/Crusades-6-Knight_1250.htm) - see similar costume in Histoire d'Outremer par Guillaume de Tyr, Northern France, between 1232 and 1261 (http://warfare.gq/13/Histoire_dOutremer-Yates_Thompson_12-109v.htm)
7. Frankish knight c.1275 (http://warfare.tk/WRG/Crusades-7-Knight_1275.htm) based on the seal of John de Montfort, lord of Tyre and Toron (1270-1283) (http://warfare.gq/13/John_de_Montfort-seal.htm)
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Druzhina
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