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John of Joinville

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“The common people took up with prostitutes, whence it happened that the king dismissed numbers of his attendants when he returned from our imprisonment; and, having inquired the reason, he told me that he knew for certain that they had pitched their huts a small stone's throw from his tent, and that in the time of the greatest mishaps the army had ever been in. ... The barons who ought to have kept their substance for good use in fit time and place, gave great feasts and costly meats, (outrageuses viandes,) &c.”
John of Joinville (1224–1318) said by 1318 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 37 (Michelet 1882, p. 301)
“Whenever our sainted king heard that they were throwing the Greek fire at us, he rose, in his bed, and stretching out his hands towards our Lord, exclaimed with tears, "O! gracious God, (Biau Sire Diex,) preserve my people to me.”
John of Joinville (1224–1318) said by 1318 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 45 (Michelet 1882, p. 301)
“The good count of Soissons laughed at me, saying, "Seneschal, let this rabble hoot, as by God's coif (this was his usual oath) we shall live to speak of this day in ladies' chambers.”
John of Joinville (1224–1318) said by 1318 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: pp. 47, 58 (Michelet 1882, p. 301)
“There, where I was on foot with my knights, the king came, wounded, with all his battle, and with great sound and noise of trumpets and nakirs, and halted on a raised way; but never was so goodly a man at arms seen, for he topped all his people from the shoulders upward, and had a golden helm on his head, and a German sword in his hand.”
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Recorded in: p. 65 (Michelet 1882, p. 301)
“[The king was told that the admirals had deliberated on making him sultan of Babylon] ... And he told me, that he would not have refused. And know that the scheme fell to the ground for no other reason than that they said the king was the stanchest Christian in the world; and it was mentioned in proof, that when they took their leave of him, he took up his cross and signed his whole body; and they said that whoever made him soldan, he would slay them all, or force them to turn Christians.”
John of Joinville (1224–1318) said by 1318 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 78 (Michelet 1882, p. 302)
“Behind the admiral was a bachelor, (bacheler,) well equipped, who held in his hand three daggers, the one of which went into the handle of the other; and, had the admiral been refused, he would have presented them severally to the king in token of defiance. Behind him who held the three knives was another who held a bougueran, (a piece of cotton cloth,) twisted round his arm, which he would have presented to the king, to signify that it was his winding-sheet, had he refused the request of the Old Man of the Mountain.”
John of Joinville (1224–1318) said by 1318 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 95 (Michelet 1882, p. 300)
“When the Old Man rode forth, he was preceded by a crier who bore a Danish axe with a long handle, all covered with silver, and stuck full of daggers, who proclaimed, "Turn from before him who bears the death of kings in his hands.”
John of Joinville (1224–1318) said by 1318 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 97 (Michelet 1882, p. 300)
“The ruffian who had torn out the sultan's heart stalked up to him with his bloody hands, and said, "What will you give me for having slain your enemy, who would have killed you!" And the king answered him not a word. There came as many as thirty with bared swords and their Danish axes in their hands into our galley. ... I inquired of my lord, Baudouin d'Ibelin, who was well acquainted with their tongue, what they said. He replied, that they said that they had come to cut our heads off. Numbers began to confess themselves to a brother of the Trinity who was with count William of Flanders; but, for my part, not one of my sins would come into my head. On the contrary, I thought that the more I should defend myself, or do any thing to provoke them, the worse it would be for me. Then I crossed myself, and knelt at the feet of one of them who had a carpenter's Danish axe in his hand, and said, "So died St. Agnes." Messire Gui d'Ibelin, constable of Cyprus, knelt by my side, and I said to him, "I give you absolution with such power as God has given me." But when I got up thence, I did not recollect a word of what he had said or related to me.”
John of Joinville (1224–1318) said by 1318 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 75 (Michelet 1882, p. 302)