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The Alexiad by Anna Komnene. The story of women in the Crusades begins with Anna Komnene, the daughter of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.She wrote a history of the First Crusade in the Alexiad, [8] providing a view of the campaign from the Byzantine perspective.
Women in the Crusades; Y. Yolanda, Latin Empress This page was last edited on 26 October 2023, at 22:52 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
"The roles of women in the crusade movement: a survey" Journal of medieval history (2004). 30#1 pp 61–82 McLaughlin, Megan. "The woman warrior: gender, warfare and society in medieval Europe" Women's Studies – an Interdisciplinary Journal 17 (1990), pp. 193–209.
The Women's Crusade gave women the opportunity to get involved in the public sphere. In the crusade, women used religious methods because they had the most experience in that area. The movement left a lasting impact on woman's involvement in social history and led to the creation of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. [3]
Margaret of Beverley, sometimes called Margaret of Jerusalem, [1] was a Christian pilgrim and crusader [2] [3] in the late 12th century in the Holy Land.Probably born in the middle 12th century, Margaret travelled to the Holy Land in the mid-1180s on a pilgrimage but was caught up in the events surrounding the Third Crusade.
Eleanor of Aquitaine (French: Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Éléonore d'Aquitaine, Occitan: Alienòr d'Aquitània, pronounced [aljeˈnɔɾ dakiˈtanjɔ], Latin: Helienordis, Alienorde or Alianor; [a] c. 1124 – 1 April 1204) was Duchess of Aquitaine from 1137 to 1204, Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII, [4] and Queen of England from 1154 to 1189 as the wife of King Henry II.
The crusader states were surrounded by hostile Muslim powers. The four crusader states of the Levant—the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Principality of Antioch, the County of Tripoli, and the County of Edessa—were created by the Franks, the Latin Christians who invaded the region and defeated its Muslim rulers during the First Crusade in 1098–99. [1]
Though initially the crusade met with some success, such as the capture of Damietta in 1249, it became a disaster after the king's brother was killed and the king then captured. Queen Margaret was responsible for negotiations and gathering enough silver for his ransom. She was thus for a brief time the only woman ever to lead a crusade.